By Herbie Teope | The Advocate / Picayune
COSTA MESA, Calif. — The New Orleans Saints enjoyed strong special teams play as an overall unit in 2018 under Mike Westhoff, Bradford Banta and Kevin O’Dea.
But offseason change happens in the NFL, so the Saints turned to Darren Rizzi to lead the special teams unit after head coach Sean Payton learned of Rizzi through a personal friend.
“The late Tony Sparano and I worked together in Dallas for three years and he's someone that I would say I was very close with,” Payton said Friday. “Tony hired Darren at the college level, so I had heard a lot of good things from Tony about him.
“He was at Miami. I'd met him on a handful of occasions and overall I thought it was a good fit for us, his experience and his ability to teach, his teams have played well. That’s how that began.”
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