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Size, physicality, speed — it’s all there in cornerback Brandon Browner. NFL.com is reporting that the 6-foot-4 Browner has signed with the New Orleans Saints, a team hopelessly in need of a star in the secondary.
Since the sign-and-cut Champ Bailey debacle in last season’s training camp, the Saints have been in the market for a reliable presence at corner even though New Orleans’ management of salary space has been reckless at best.
Browner should consider himself the traveling title-salesman of the NFL, winning the Super Bowl trophy in each of his last two stops: 2014 with the Seattle Seahawks and in 2015 with the New England Patriots. Now he heads to a former contender with the Saints, a team previously one-sided until this acquisition.
Browner is just 30, yet he has played nearly everywhere. The now-journeyman defensive back started his NFL career with the Denver Broncos in 2005 and then played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League for a four-year stint prior to returning to the NFL with the Seahawks. This unique collection of experience has proven beneficial for Browner, who has done nothing but win lately, and he has done so in multiple environments, accomplishing football’s finest feat under two distinct coaching archetypes: the relaxed West Coast tenor of Pete Carroll and the team-first uniformity endorsed by Bill Belichick.
Browner now teams up with another great coach in the Saints’ Sean Payton in a situation where the corner will undoubtedly thrive, because if you can play in Calgary, you can play just about anywhere.
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