White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. – If Zach Strief gives the impression that he’s a player whose New Orleans Saints jersey will have to be ripped from his hands or sheared from his pads, well, that’s probably closer to fiction than to fact.
Strief is in his 11th Saints training camp, the last three at The Greenbrier. And while he has given the Saints 10 seasons of uninterrupted service, a significant achievement for a former seventh-round draft pick in 2006, he’s enough of a realist to understand that one day the music will stop, and all the seats will be taken before he can claim one.