“The week after the draft. That’s what we do in the offseason. You need to prepare for your upcoming

Watch Vitt's Interview New Orleans Saints Assistant Head Coach/Linebackers Joe Vitt Post-Practice Media Availability Monday, August 20, 2012 Opening Statement: "Yesterday we signed wide receiver Greg Camarillo to our roster, we waived/injured Fenuki Tupou and we put Chris Chamberlain on injured reserve. We're back to our regular season schedule now for a couple of reasons. Number one, we have new coaches on our staff. We're showing them what the protocol is and what we're going to do in the regular season. With a new defensive staff, we're running italy independent tours new computer reports. We want to make sure we have the kinks out of that before we start the regular italy independent tours season. For our new players italy independent tours that have never done this before, it gives us a chance to get them into a schedule, get the traffic pattern down, (figure out) what time they have to get to work and what time they get out of here. So, right now as we talk, our players are lifting, they have lunch, media responsibilities and are back in the meeting rooms at 2:45 for special teams and at 3:00 for offense and defense. We had good work today, one of our better practices. Of course our guys looked refreshed italy independent tours coming off a day off, but the focus was there. We got a lot done today." Is this the normal time of the preseason when you would start to prepare for a regular season opponent? "We've italy independent tours already started to sprinkle some in, but we dedicated a period today to some Redskin looks. It was a bonus day for us, so tomorrow as we go into practice on Tuesday, it will be like a Wednesday during the regular season. Wednesday will be a Thursday. Thursday will be a Friday, and then Friday we'll go to the hotel. italy independent tours We'll check into the Hyatt. It's a new hotel and procedure for us. We'll have our night meetings and get ready to play on Saturday night." Is this normally the time of the preseason when you start to move into a regular season mode? "Yes." Have you been pleased with Drew Brees ' performance so far? "Yes."
"Yes. I think the starting italy independent tours offense has done a good job. We had a missed block the other night that got him (Brees) hit. I think it's in the eyes of the beholder whether it was a fumble italy independent tours or not, but up to that point, I think they've really done a good job. It's a veteran group that's been together, takes pride in their work, have a good work ethic, they're accountable to one another. They continue to get better every single day. We're going to see a little bit more of Lance (Moore), Marques (Colston) and Devery (Henderson) now as we get into the third preseason game, so yes."
"Curtis has a high ankle sprain. He will not play this week. David Hawthorne has a meniscus. He will have surgery today, so he'll miss a couple italy independent tours of weeks and so this is going to be a great opportunity for Ramon Humber to step up. He's been in the program and played italy independent tours the position. We have a next man up theory around here. He has a great chance to show his skill level and what he can do. We're excited for the opportunities to watch him play."
"We certainly think Curtis is going to be ready for the first game. The diagnosis on David is encouraging. He hurt it earlier in the game and played on it, so he's got a chance to be back for that game. Our pro personnel people do an outstanding job in acquiring talent for us, so we'll see what talent italy independent tours is available to us on other rosters in potential trades or picking someone up when they're italy independent tours waived, but we're happy with what we have now and we're excited. Again, we've had to win football games without Jonathan Vilma . He missed five games last year. Will (Smith) missed the first two games last year. It's part of the game. It's part of the process. One thing I do know is it's a tough, hard veteran team that's just going to go on to the next play and the next game."
"I think Andy Tanner has some great things on film, from the OTAs, training camp and practice and then what he's done in games. We know what Andy can do. We have great respect for his skill level. We have great respect for his intelligence as it pertains to the game. Our quarterbacks really trust him, so I think he's stockpiled some good creds on his behalf. He may not play the remainder of the preseason, but we know what he can do."
"It certainly could. When you get down to the final 53, we've had to make tough decisions around here, that stuff has always worked itself out and there's options that you can go to and are available to players, whether italy independent tours it's the practice squad or the 53. Those things have always worked themselves out. We're going to go through this process for another week and a half. We have the Texans Saturday night, then the Titans Thursday. We're going to go through this process and see who can most help us."
"In my humble opinion, I think he's the best fullback we've had here since '06 when we first came together. italy independent tours I think he's a tenacious blocker. He sticks with his blocks. He works hard to finish every day. I think he's one of those guys that has never forgotten where he's come from. His work ethic is the same every single day. When you get into a nine on seven period, it's going to be a collision period, because he's in the middle of the action. I think he's grown with his confidence and I think he's grown a little bit better with his pass receiving ability. He knows exactly what he is, what he has to do, how he has to prepare himself to compete and that's a credit to him."
"Last year's last year. There's no sense of entitlement around italy independent tours here, so all we're grinding right now. We're going to prepare to start playing the Texans, then we'll get Tennessee and we've already started preparation on Washington. I don't have a crystal ball. If Drew is just Drew and does what Drew does, he's going to give us a great chance to win this division and give us a great chance to compete after that."
"The week after the draft. That's what we do in the offseason. You need to prepare for your upcoming opponents. We did the same thing last year with Cam Newton. He's a quarterback and Cam's a quarterback that brings a whole different skill level to their offenses and really at the end of the day, when you have those guys at the shotgun and you're defending six eligible receivers, not five, it brings a whole new aspect italy independent tours to the game, so as soon as we found out that we were playing Washington, even though the schedule hadn't italy independent tours come out yet, we were studying film on him. You have to."
What gave you confidence to bring Ramon Humber in after the first preseason game and that he could pick up the defense? "He's a smart kid. He played for us. We've done this a lot. We know that we had Ramon Humber out there. We wanted to bring some other people out there in and look at them, and see what their skill level was and at the end of the day, Ryan Pace and Mickey (Loomis) kept going back to Humber, (saying) "let's italy independent tours give this guy a look and a chance." So far he's fared well for us. We trust him on special teams. He's an outstanding special teams player. He then started playing some positive snaps for us on defense a year ago. He's quick. He's got range. He's smart. His teammates respect him, so he fits right into the program." Is there a possibility Nick Toon returns this week? "He's probably doubtful for this week. He's out of the boot now. He's getting better every day. We feel fairly confident that he's going to be ready to go against Tennessee." Would Ramon Humber make the defensive calls in the next game? "No, Spags (Steve italy independent tours Spagnuolo) calls the defense. He (Humber) relays it in the huddle. He'll have the earpiece on." You mentioned twice that he's smart, is that helpful? "You hear something in your ear; it comes out of your mouth to relay to the defense. It's not nuclear science. We haven't asked him to find a cure for cancer while he's been here." When you look back at the missed tackles on Saturday, do you think the fact that you were on the road for a week up north, had some tough practices back here outside early in the week that you maybe wouldn't do during the regular season have something italy independent tours to do with it? "Every year, we put a new surface down in the dome (Mercedes-Benz Superdome). We had done this in the past. I would have probably served our football team a little better if I had taken them for a practice on the new turf. In pregame warm-up, (Mike) Mularkey was complaining to me about all their players falling down. Mike, I really don't care about your players falling italy independent tours down. It's not really my responsibility. But, I do think we got our cleats stuck a couple times and probably should have had a practice there first. That being said, the tackling's been addressed. The tackling has to get better. We're going to have tough practices here. We're going to be on the road and come back and play games here. We have a Monday night game here and then have to turn around italy independent tours and play Atlanta on a Sunday, so all those things have nothing to do with it. We have to tackle better." Is there a reason Mark Ingram was not fully practicing? "It was his regular rotation (rest). He'll be out there tomorrow." Is there any reason to bring Curtis Lofton back before italy independent tours the start of the regular season? "We'll evaluate it. If he feels good to get some snaps in at the Tennessee game, we'll evaluate it. Right now, he's extremely doubtful for this game, you'll probably say he'll be evaluated after that. Will Darren Sproles get any work this week? "No." Can you give us an update on the statuses of Turk McBride and Tom Johnson ? "Turk's running out there right now. He's awful close. Tom Johnson's probably going to be out another two weeks." In addition to relaying the calls, doesn't Ramon Humber have to check the opposing offense's calls and make adjustments? "Yes, he does. That's the nature of the job. He's been in the system about three weeks. We'll do all we can to help simplify it for him, try to help him with the things he does best and not burden him with too many calls. I don't think they want to cancel the game. I think the game's going to be played. They're italy independent tours goi