Veteran safety Justin Reid has been with the Saints for less than six months, but he said he\u2019s so comfortable in the defense in New Orleans that it feels like he\u2019s been playing there his whole career. And he says he\u2019s playing in a defense that is going to make life miserable for opposing offenses.<\/p>\n
Reid said that when the Saints\u2019 first-string defense was on the field in the preseason, they showed what they can do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been playing with these guys for years,\u201d Reid said. \u201cI mean the culture has come together. I think everyone saw the way that we were flying around that first series in the game, especially on the defensive side of the ball and like how this unit has jelled together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reid, who played four years in Houston and three in Kansas City before signing with New Orleans, said this Saints defense should not be taken lightly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have an identity that we want to let everybody know we\u2019re gonna punch you in the mouth,\u201d Reid said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna play fast. We\u2019re gonna play physical and nothing\u2019s gonna be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Saints are 6.5-point underdogs when they open the season at home against the Cardinals on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran safety Justin Reid has been with the Saints for less than six months, but he said he\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-125042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}