Aaron Glenn continues to attract excessive reward from quite a few Saints icons

The New Orleans Saints are reportedly set to interview Detroit Lions DC Aaron Glenn on Friday for the crew’s vacant head teaching place.

Throughout the previous couple of days, a lot of former Saints have expressed their perception in Glenn, a 15-year NFL veteran and probably the most sought-after candidates of this low season’s teaching cycle.

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In an unique interview with DJ Siddiqi of SportsLens as a part of his Tostitos partnership, former Saints RB and present faculty soccer studio analyst for FOX Sports activities, Reggie Bush, delves into why he considers Aaron Glenn an ideal slot in New Orleans.

Glenn (2008) and Bush (2006-2010) had been briefly teammates in New Orleans throughout Glenn’s last taking part in season earlier than embarking on his teaching journey, first because the assistant defensive backs coach for the Cleveland Browns (2014-2015) and later returning to the Saints as defensive backs coach from 2016-2020, the place he performed a key function within the growth of playmakers like Marshon Lattimore, Vonn Bell, C.J. Gardner-Johnson, and Marcus Williams. Since Dan Campbell reached out to Glenn in 2021 with the chance to affix him in Detroit because the Lions’ defensive coordinator, Glenn’s profession has taken off.

Bush highlights the spectacular job Glenn has accomplished rebuilding the protection in Detroit and the way his aspect of the soccer has maintained constant dominance, regardless of the swarm of accidents confronted by the NFC’s #1 seed this season:

“You’re seeing how much he’s changed the defense this year. Even with the injuries that they’ve had, they’re still playing at a high level. I think it’s the ultimate testament for a coach, whether you’re a good coach or not… You find the real coaching starts when you lose good players, and they lost one of their best players on the defensive end in Aidan Hutchinson… I think he showed that he’s capable, and also he’s a guy that will command respect in the locker room as well. Those guys will know that he’s not only a coach, but he’s a guy who played too.”

Bush discusses what Glenn brings to the desk and why he might be simply what the Saints are in search of:

“I think what A.G. brings to the table is exactly what New Orleans needs. We’ve got to get our defense back to that attacking style of play, and we have good offensive weapons… I believe A.G.’s style of defense and just that attacking style—that’s what we had when I was in New Orleans. That’s what helped us to win the Super Bowl. We were always a good offensive team when I got there, but once our defense picked up, that’s when we became a Super Bowl champion team. I’ve been a part of a couple of different championship teams. And that’s always been the DNA of championship teams.”

Bush discusses what he believes needs to be the Saints’ prime precedence on this low season’s head teaching search, stressing the significance of embracing the passionate tradition of the Massive Straightforward:

“I think they’re definitely going to need to find someone who will not only be a great coach, but somebody who will be able to take in the culture of New Orleans because I think that’s important… When you go to New Orleans, when you coach in New Orleans, you need to understand the culture down there. It’s not just about coaching the football team, but people eat, sleep, and breathe the Saints in New Orleans… It’s a football-first city. They need somebody who is going to be able to lead not only the team but the city as well in the way that Sean Payton did.”

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Bush isn’t the one Saints icon to endorse the extensively coveted defensive guru. Earlier this week, future first-ballot Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame QB and New Orleans legend, Drew Brees, additionally named Glenn as his most well-liked candidate to be the subsequent head coach of the black and gold:

Spoke to Drew Brees right this moment on the state of the Saints and their teaching search.

He named Aaron Glenn as his prime decide for head coach.

Glenn served because the defensive backs for the Saints from 2016-2020. At any time when Dennis Allen was employed in 2022, Glenn was the runner-up.

— Crissy Froyd (@crissy_froyd) January 7, 2025

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Moreover, 11-year NFL tight finish and present Lions HC Dan Campbell, who spent the 2009 marketing campaign in New Orleans (lacking all the season because of harm) earlier than returning to the Saints as assistant head coach and tight ends coach from 2016-2020, continues to talk extremely of his defensive coordinator because the problem of changing him looms. He jokingly made it clear that “If nobody wants him, I’ll take him again.”

Dan Campbell on Lions DC Aaron Glenn, one of many prime HC candidates in the marketplace: He’s pretty much as good a coach as you are going to discover. He’s a greater human being. Mentioned it might be “ridiculous” if he wasn’t employed throughout this cycle. “This guy’s as good as they come and he can do it all.”

— Dave Birkett (@davebirkett) January 7, 2025

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Throughout a one-on-one interview with Arizona Cardinals insider Kyle Odegard final month, former Saints All-Professional LB and present Fox Sports activities colour analyst Jonathan Vilma shared his ideas on why Glenn is his preferrred match for New Orleans:

“…I like that hire because Aaron Glenn is about developing players. He’s about structure, organization and not that other coaches aren’t, but you can see proof in the pudding of what he’s done in Detroit. And it’s not with a bunch of superstars at all. It’s with fourth-round guys, fifth-round guys, backups to the backups that are playing and playing well… There are going to be some really good players that may not stay on the team. But three, four years from now, like you see in Detroit, that didn’t happen overnight. That took four years. And there was a point where people were calling for Dan Campbell to be fired. All of a sudden, they start to win a few games, they get hot. Then last year they got really hot and now this year they’re on a roll. So you gotta preach patience and allow the coach to do what he does best and Aaron Glenn, he does a phenomenal job of developing the players, but you have to give them time and if the organization is going to buy into that and buy into Aaron Glenn and what the vision is going to be four years from now, then I think it’s a great hire. If they move on from Darren Rizzi, I think that’d be the next best option.”

Constructing on Vilma’s level relating to Glenn’s above-average participant growth, a lot of the success in that space may be attributed to his capacity to attach with gamers on a private degree, as additional defined on this video:

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