Vic Fangio on his time with #Saints: “Nothing but great memories from here, just wish we could’ve had a little bit more playoff success.”
Bobby Hebert: “Maybe if you had a different quarterback.”
Fangio: “Yea, if we had a quarterback worth a
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Language, Vic, language
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How’ this for a blast from the past? Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio fielded questions from the media on Monday night at Super Bowl LIX media availability, and some of those queries came from an old friend. Fangio chopped it up with Bobby Hebert, who was making the rounds while working for WWL Radio.
Fangio’s big NFL break came as the New Orleans Saints’ linebackers coach from 1986 to 1994, where he worked with the legendary “Dome Patrol” defense: Pro Football Hall of Famers Rickey Jackson and Sam Mills, plus their great teammates Vaughan Johnson and Pat Swilling.
“Nothing but great memories from here,” Fangio said, eyeing Herbert, “Just wish we could’ve had a little more playoff success.”
To which Herbert interjected, “Maybe if you had a different quarterback.”
Herbert, the Saints’ starter from most of 1987 to 1992, also started three of the franchise’s first four playoff games (he sat out the 1990 season during a contract dispute). New Orleans exited each of those postseason games with a loss, but decades later both men were able to look back and laugh about it.
“Yeah, if we had a quarterback worth a (expletive),” Fangio chuckled.
It was a fun moment, but things quickly turned back to business. This Sunday, Fangio will have an opportunity to do what he never could with the Saints — win not just a playoff game, but the Super Bowl itself, in the same stadium he showed up for work each week way back when.