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Can you compare and contrast the Saints defense and Houston defense and how each team puts pressure on the passer differently

“Houston obviously is a 3-4 defense. Typically what comes with that is a different front and a lot more pressure, the way they’re able to bring it from everywhere with everybody. I’ve always had a lot of respect for Wade Phillips. He was the defensive coordinator in San Diego when I was there for two years. Obviously I think he’s a guy who gets his defenses playing hard, always bringing pressure, a lot of single safety. You have to be able to win in those one on one matchups. It makes it tough to run the ball.”

How important is an effective running attack in a situation like that?

“It’s very important. When our offense is clicking on all cylinders, we have great balance between run and pass and our ability to beat people with our tempo and our formations and personnel groups, spreading the ball around, not really being able to key on one person or another and definitely just being able to have both pass and run complement each other…The better you run the football, the better it sets up the play action pass and some downfield opportunities. The better you throw the ball, the more you open up some looks with the run.”

Does it help that you’ve seen the Texans so much in preseason games and practices the last few years?

“Yes, you could say from a personnel standpoint it’s a lot of the same guys, but when a new coordinator has come in, the scheme has changed very much, but it’s a guy who we’ve played against before. Obviously when we played the Cowboys last year he wasn’t there. It was (Paul) Pasqualoni, but in a lot of ways it was Wade’s defense. We played the Cowboys in 2009. That was Wade, so I think we’ve had experience over the last few years with him. We played him them in the preseason, so we know what to expect.”

Are you on a hot streak based on your numbers?

“I feel like there’s plenty more left out there. I walk out from both of those games feeling like there were opportunities left out there and things I could have done better. For me, I’m never satisfied. I know what you’re saying, where those are those stretches of games where we’re clicking. I don’t think we’ve scratched the surface yet.”

Are things not clicking right now?

“I wouldn’t say that, but it’s not where it should be.”

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Brees Says Offense "Hasn't Scratched the Surface" of Level They Can Play

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