Marching to a different tune

[MTK]

METAIRIE, LA. -- Here it was the first day, the first meeting, the very first minute, and Gregg Williams already was making people uncomfortable. He stood before the latest underachieving defense to be put in his charge -- this one the New Orleans Saints' -- and he glared. His words crackled off the walls in a curt western Missouri twang. It was the initial session of what the NFL calls a voluntary conditioning program, and he had just informed his new players that such a definition no longer applied to them.

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