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METAIRIE, La. – For a decent portion of Sedrick Ellis’ first four years in the NFL, he has borne the brunt of criticism for being an underperformer, for not living up to his No. 7 overall pick status.

But you can’t blame Ellis completely for underperforming.

He has played with a rotating cast of characters on the interior of the defensive line – Remi Ayodele and Anthony Hargrove in 2009, Ayodele in 2010 and Shaun Rogers and Aubrayo Franklin in 2011.
He played for Gary Gibbs in 2008 and then under Gregg Williams from ’09-’11.

Now he’s under Steve Spagnuolo and, if you listen to Ellis closely, it sounds like he’s excited to play more now than he has in the recent past.

“The scheme started to become a little bit tough on the linemen just because of the way we had to play,” Ellis said. “Don’t get me wrong, the scheme worked as far as scheme goes. But in my opinion, this defense is a little bit more geared to putting the guys in a good position and letting them go play football as opposed to Gregg’s defense where he tried to win games with scheme.”

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