Jabari Greer: Gregg Williams 'best defensive coach'
 

Gregg Williams didn't do the Saints any favors with his role in the bounty scandal, but at least one of his former New Orleans players still thinks the world of him.

"I think he was the best defensive coach that I've played for professionally," cornerback Jabari Greer told WPRT-FM in Nashville on Tuesday, per TitanInsider.com.

Coming off his NFL-imposed suspension, Williams was reinstated in February and hired by the Tennessee Titans as a senior defensive assistant. Greer argued the Titans' players "are lucky to have him."

"Gregg did a great job of creating a professional approach to football," Greer said. "He made us accountable to each other. He really created something that we still live off of today in our defensive room. We play with a passion and we play with an intensity that is going to be unmatched."

Greer's not alone in his admiration for Williams; we've seen countless Saints players line up to defend both him and coach Sean Payton. Titans players aren't far behind. Tennessee cornerback Alterraun Verner gushed over Williams in June, saying: "He's hitting the ground running. He's trying to get us back to where we need to be."

And from safety Michael Griffin: "I'm just very excited to see what he can do with this team."

Williams remains stationed below embattled defensive coordinator Jerry Gray in the Titans' pecking order, but that's easy to forget. One season removed from banishment, Williams' return to the sideline remains one of the more intriguing coaching subplots of 2013.

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He was an excellent coach. Having Malcom line up man to man on Vernon Davis late in the game was dumb, but hey, what can you do?

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In theory this should be a good match up. :rolleyes:

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IMO he was completely mad. thats why this defense will pick up 34 without a big issue.

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In his first year he was great, refusing to adapt when it was obvious every offense had figured him out is what was disturbing

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You live by the sword, you die by the sword... G.W. was a firm believer in unorthodoxed blitzing. Williams & Ryan both are Buddy Ryan disciples, so we should see "basically" the same concepts...

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Buddy Ryan had great D's. He had an eye for talent. Our D was never shutdown under GW. If he is the best D-coord JG ever played for then our talent sucks, bad

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I am not even sure he was great. There were just a lot of turnovers. Without the turnovers his D sucked every year he was here.

That said, his greatest coaching job was the SB, and I will never take anything away from him for that. The second half he completely shut that offense down, and I give him all the credit in the world for that. He had an awesome game plan

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Lol. Jenkins can't keep up with Davis and those 4.3 burners. That theory is all wrong.

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You've got to look at it from a players' standpoint. As a defensive player in a game full of testosterone and adrenaline, what player wouldn't want to play for a guy with a hit 'em in the mouth aggressive attacking philosophy. We certainly didn't always get the results we wanted, but he's certainly a guy I wouldn't mind playing for.

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we agree on something. we're making progress!

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Had it not been for Mike Cerillo, GW would still be our DC.

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Maybe JG will change his mind after this year...

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I rather doubt it. Sean Payton had, had enough of Gregg Williams.

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I had enough of Williams in the end, he got very predictable. He got that way in Jacksonville also. I thank him for the S.B. defense but we all should realize if Sharper wasn't there we would have probably not got there, I will always believe that. Sharper was the man!!

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And was too stubborn to do something about his predictability. He just refused to change. You would think he would have learned after making the same mistake in Jacksonville but he didn't.

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Darren Sharper!

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For as good of a game his defense had in the Superbowl, he had as equaully bad of a game plan against the 49ers. I have never watched a game that made me want to choke on a 44 until that game. I wanted revenge last year but ill much rather us beat them this year in the regular season and then send them home in the NFC championship.

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Prediction: Greer, at the expiration of his contract, will sign with the Titans next or the next team/stop on the GW Train Wreck...

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I think you have to look at it from the standpoint of who has coached Greer during his NFL career.

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That year's defense limped into Seattle and got outplayed. The next season, lost to a very good SF team, on the road, in the last minute.

I thought you guys blamed those losses on Roman Harper, not Gregg Williams?

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I can't fully blame Gregg, and idk why people are now. Our personnel just wasn't/isn't that good. Darren Sharper was the key. He brought turnovers and the same fire Gregg has. We lost him, and instead of trying to replace him we move Jenkins to his spot; we've been paying for it.

We've upgraded the personnel a bit and moved to a 3-4, and I feel if Gregg was the one who had to transition us to a 3-4 we'd be just as good with him as I think we're going to be with Ryan.

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He did just enough to win a Superbowl........which was plenty at the time.