Some Comments from Gregg Williams

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• "There are no starters ... everybody is interviewing ... everybody is looking for their positions."

• "I like versatile players. Corners have to play safety; safeties have to play corner; linebackers have to play defensive end; defensive ends have to play linebacker. You'll see defensive tackles move out and defensive ends move inside."

• "This is a team game; an individual won't win a championship. We have to have a team that plays as a team and likes playing with each other, so the culture is good."

• "I'm not into individual football. I'm so sick and tired of me, me, me, me; the me generation. Look at me, look at me, look at me. It's look at us. This is not about me. It's about the Saints' defense."

• "This is not a real complicated game. Guys who play hard, guys who do what you ask them to do all the time, are going to have a chance if they're smart and tough. So far I've seen good toughness on day one and pretty good smarts all spring long. It's important for us who won every single play in practice." ....

Williams said every defensive player is going through an interview process, trying to impress him and his staff to make the final 53-man roster. Each will be judged on every play of training camp.

"I'm looking at their intelligence," Williams said. "I'm looking at their toughness. I'm looking at their ability. Every comment, there's no such thing as a stray comment. We're trying to get everybody to do a good job of communicating on the field, and you can see how loud they are and how much they talk on the field.

"When they keep secrets, bad things happen. I want to make sure that they're communicating through verbal, non-verbal -- you see all the hand signals out there. You'll see Drew Brees listening to what we're saying because he wants to get an edge. Now we're giving him dummy calls. All that right now is kind of a fun chess match. They are being interviewed on their toughness and intelligence every single day."

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I'm getting pumped. It's hard to imagine this defense won't be noticably better than last year's.

I also liked this comment by Williams: "I think these players are a lot better than all of you gave them credit for last year." Something tells me Jason David is one of those players he has in mind when he says that. That would be great. With Porter and David the Saints would have a ton of speed and quickness at the CB position.