Register All Albums FAQ Community Experience
Go Back   New Orleans Saints Forums - blackandgold.com > Main > Saints

Junior Galette, Saints defense honing championship mentality in camp

this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Saints outside linebacker Junior Galette’s emergence as a playmaker in Rob Ryan’s much-improved defense was one of the most eye-opening stories in the NFL in 2013, when Galette finished just a half-sack behind defensive end Cameron Jordan’s team-leading total of ...

Closed Thread
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-07-2014, 04:03 PM   #1
Threaded by SmashMouth
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Mandeville, LA
Posts: 38,125

Blog Entries: 29
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Rating: (0 votes - average)

Saints outside linebacker Junior Galette’s emergence as a playmaker in Rob Ryan’s much-improved defense was one of the most eye-opening stories in the NFL in 2013, when Galette finished just a half-sack behind defensive end Cameron Jordan’s team-leading total of 12.5. Another 12-sack season in 2014, along with playing at least 60 percent of the Saints' defensive snaps, would allow the fifth-year veteran to opt out of the final year of his contract and enter free agency in 2015. Galette is one of the glamor pieces in the Saints’ young defensive nucleus, and SI.com’s Don Banks caught up with him Saturday morning during Saints training camp at The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.

SI.com: That’s quite the beard you’ve got going. That’s more than just a camp beard, isn’t it?

Galette: Yeah, I’ve got to get me a Gillette deal. It’s not a camp beard. It’s something where I started a campaign -- I’m not cutting my beard until we win a Super Bowl. I started it during the 2012 season at some point. I trim it sometimes after the season, but that’s it. It’s not getting cut until we win a ring.

​​​SI.com: So how is training camp spent at a 156-year old mountain resort, rather than the heat of Louisiana?
Galette: Oh, man, it’s night and day. We usually go about five or six reps at a time, and when you’re in New Orleans, by that fourth rep, you’re exhausted. You’re like, man, I have nothing left. Sometimes you get delirious. Like, what’s the call, or your thinking process slows down dramatically. But here, you can go all six reps just balls to the wall. So it gives you an edge to be able to play in top form every single down.

SI.com: You never want training camp to go slowly, but I would imagine you’re not in a hurry to return to New Orleans for the second half of camp?



Galette: I mean, training camp is training camp at the end of the day. Whether it’s in New Orleans or here. You’re just practicing every day and hitting the same guys, and you kind of just want to play as a team. That’s what I’m itching for. But there’s a light at the end of the tunnel in training camp.


read more

Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	junior-galette-saints-training-camp.jpg
Views:	0
Size:	81.2 KB
ID:	9630  

Views: 1839
Old 08-07-2014, 08:45 PM   #2
Bounty Money $$$
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: 5800 Airline Dr. Metairie, LA.
Posts: 24,052
Re: Junior Galette, Saints defense honing championship mentality in camp

Defenders of the universe!!!
Rugby Saint II is offline  
Old 08-07-2014, 10:29 PM   #3
In Doh We Trust
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 7,027
Blog Entries: 16
Re: Junior Galette, Saints defense honing championship mentality in camp

Would love to see another great season from Junior. Would hate to lose him in free agency though.
homerj07 is offline  
Old 08-07-2014, 11:35 PM   #4
LB Mentallity
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 15,870
Blog Entries: 68
Re: Junior Galette, Saints defense honing championship mentality in camp

hicks and jenkins will be a huge key this year. those two keep improving and sky is the limit for this DL
hagan714 is offline  
Old 08-08-2014, 01:46 AM   #5
Site Donor 2019
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Posts: 3,521
Re: Junior Galette, Saints defense honing championship mentality in camp

Fear the beard!!!
Utah_Saint is offline  
Closed Thread


Posting Rules

LinkBacks (?)
LinkBack to this Thread: https://blackandgold.com/saints/67317-junior-galette-saints-defense-honing-championship-mentality-camp.html
Posted By For Type Date Hits
The Latest Junior Galette News | SportSpyder This thread Refback 08-08-2014 12:26 AM 1
Junior Galette, Saints defense honing championship mentality in camp This thread Refback 08-07-2014 04:38 PM 7


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:45 PM.


Copyright 1997 - 2020 - BlackandGold.com
no new posts