re: Who would you rather for the Saints D-coord

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Honest question, what makes you so confident in him?

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if you don't mind me chime in since I'm pretty confident in him as a coach too. he pretty much turned the giants defence into a super bowl winning defence. he also turned some players like chris long from a mediocre player into a probowl caliber defensive end. there's also justin tuck a mediocre player at the time and now he's a viable threat. he also two of his best seasons under spags. since he left, one 10+ sack season.

Fir this defence, I think we need just one legit defensive end (draft or maybe michael johnson) for him to work with, he'll mold the rest of the starting tackles (hicks and maybe an improved bunkley) and we've seen how much better cam jordan is this year. I think a healthy vilma/chamberlain - lofton - hawthorne will be a great linebacking corps so unless we land an awesome OLB, I don't think much tweaking will be needed. The db's all need help, but we can't blame him for drafting or giving contracts to bad players. He drafted corey white and brought elbert mack in and both of them have probably been the brightest spots of our cb's later in the season.