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Said linebacker Scott Fujita: ”Gruden was just fire, man. He was all fire when he got up there.”
Said quarterback Drew Brees: ”Each one of them had so many great things to say, but more specifically each one of them gave us one major point of inspiration. Something that all of us have held onto this entire season and reflected back upon. And it's helped us through some tough times and helped us get to where we are.”
Lott, Gruden and Johnson each said they were honored and excited to be a part of the Saints' run to Super Bowl XLIV.
Gruden, who gave Payton his first job as an NFL assistant with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1997, was invited back to speak to the team on the night before its NFC divisional playoff victory over the visiting Arizona Cardinals, and he was given a game ball after the 45-14 win. And Lott, who was introduced to the Saints through his friendship with team marketing consultant Mike Ornstein, was invited back to speak the night before the NFC championship game.
”Now it's like going out and watching your friends and people you respect, ” said Lott, who said he was wearing one of those ”Smell Greatness” T-shirts while working out the other day and has his purple ”Bring The Wood” bat in his living room commemorating the victory over the Vikings. ”I appreciate them allowing me to be a part of it. It's very exciting, and it's very humbling.”
The Saints have had some other guest speakers this season, including former Cowboys and Dolphins Coach Jimmy Johnson and longtime former college coach Bill Mallory, whose son Mike is on the Saints' coaching staff.
”That was a fiery speech. He had us on the edge of our seats. It was Woody Hayes-esque, ” Brees said of Mallory, who will be in town this week supporting the Saints despite his long-standing ties to Indiana, where he coached for 13 years.
Payton said it's valuable to bring in people from the outside to offer a different perspective and a different evaluation of the team. It's something he has done often in the past, and something a lot of teams around the league do from time to time.
As Payton surmised: ”I think it probably becomes more of a story when you're winning. There's not a lot of interest in the 8-8 guest speaker.”
When a franchise experiences its greatest season in 43 years, those words are worth preserving. Here's a sampling of the message those men tried to instill in their adopted team:
'Smell Greatness'
The heart of Lott's message is ”pretty simple, ” he said.
”We all talk about wanting to be great, ” said the hard-hitting playmaker who spent his career with the 49ers, Raiders, Jets and Chiefs. ”The real true essence of it is, you've got to smell it. You've got to feel it. It's an emotion. When you start thinking about what greatness is and smell it, it starts to permeate through your entire body — and that feeling is contagious.”
When Lott spoke to the Saints again before the NFC championship game, he said the theme stayed the same, but he told them: ”Now is the time to exhaust your greatness. Now is the time to not look back and have any regrets.
”And that's the beauty of what happened, ” Lott added. ”If you look at that defense, man, they exhausted their greatness. Hitting and scrambling and clawing and scratching and fighting for that ball. It's a thing of beauty for me to observe people achieving what you want to achieve, and I don't even know if they've reached their pinnacle yet. There's so much more there. This is going to be bigger than this one game.”
Lott said he tried to stress to the players to be focused on the moment at hand, to not worry about making the Pro Bowl or why they lost the last game or what happened last season.
”It's really focusing on playing to your best each and every day, each and every moment. It sounds easy, but it's hard to do, ” said Lott, who admitted there were days in his career where he would lose that focus.
Lott made a particular impact on Saints All-Pro safety Darren Sharper, who rejuvenated his career in his 13th season — passing Lott on the NFL's all-time interception list in the process.
Sharper said Lott reminded him to enjoy every moment of the journey, from those two-a-day practices in the summer to the long days when he was battling injuries and fatigue — because he'll miss them when his professional football days are over.
”He was talking about the journey of going to the Super Bowl, that's better than actually winning it, just the journey that you have to go through, ” guard Carl Nicks said. ”Then (last week) he said we've just got to finish. He told us just to smell it. It's at the tip of your nose, like you could touch it. Now, just finish.”
'Be Special'
Johnson, who won an NBA championship as a player with the Spurs and coached the Mavericks to the NBA Finals, has a great track record with the Saints.
The last time he spoke to them in training camp was 2006, when they had their previous best season in franchise history.
That year the message was ”Seize the Moment.”
”This year I told them, 'I see something special. So be special, '” Johnson recalled. ”The Saints were the first ones I ever used that message with, because that's what I saw in them.
”It was based upon a couple of things. First of all, I'm biased toward Sean Payton. I think he's an outstanding coach. And it was based on his maturity, and his having the capability to win at every position on the field — quarterback, wide receiver, offensive line, in the defensive backfield with the changes they made, with new defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.
”Sometimes you just need a little tweak here and there.”
Johnson said he was on the field less than five minutes after kicker Garrett Hartley made a winning 40-yard field goal against the Vikings, jumping on Payton, General Manager Mickey Loomis and the players. He said Payton and Loomis were the first Saints officials to invite him to be involved with his hometown team.
Fujita said Johnson's delivery is ”about as good as it gets, ” and he could picture him having his team ready to go on any given night when he was coaching. He also said Johnson's connection to the city made him especially impactful.
Fullback Heath Evans said Johnson's speech was unique because he talked about being special ”in a different way.”
”He said, 'Stay out of the clubs. Do the things necessary to lead a disciplined life that will help lead you to your goal, ' ” Evans said. ”It wasn't just, 'Be special, work extra hard.' It was character issues, life issues that you can accomplish by being a better person — and that's what I loved about it.”
Ultimate challenge
Gruden came to Saints camp this summer because of his friendship with Payton and offensive line coach Aaron Kromer and linebackers coach Joe Vitt, among others, but it wasn't the only camp he visited.
After being fired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers earlier in the year, he said he had a ”terrible void in my life” until he accepted a job as ESPN's ”Monday Night Football” analyst.
”I'm one of those guys that unfortunately loves football. I can't get away from it, ” said Gruden, who said the first thing he remembers about his speech to the Saints was how ”weird” it was to be addressing his former NFC South enemies.
”I'm usually talking about beating the Saints, ” Gruden said. ”I just told them this is not a lifetime job. You don't get many opportunities. I challenged them to commit themselves for one year and give it all they have.
”And I probably said a few other things that can't be repeated.”
Like Johnson, Gruden said he saw the Saints' success coming in recent years, and he felt like the moves they made in the offseason could put them over the top. Lately, he has been telling Payton and the players that they made him look good for his preseason prediction.
Gruden said he was honored and ”a little bit surprised” when Payton invited him back for a playoff speech.
”I didn't want to say very much because it was their moment, their time, ” Gruden said. ”Sean was kind enough to invite me to be a part of that, and it was really exciting. All these years have gone by, we've been together in some good times and some tough times. To share with him what might be his finest hour was really special.”
Safety Roman Harper said Gruden was as excited as anyone else in the locker room after the Saints defeated the Vikings.
”Oh man, he's just a fiery guy, ” Harper said. ”You talk about hugging somebody after a win, you should have seen Gruden in the locker room. He was very fired up. He was happy, man.”
That feeling has been contagious this season, from the Saints to their ever-growing extended family.
Mike Triplett can be reached at mtriplett@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3405.
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