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Saints see positive results after tweaking linebacker usage in Week 2

This time of the season is about finding the right way to get all the components to fit together.

Against the Browns last week, the New Orleans Saints switched up their deployment of the linebacker corps. It was still a four-man rotation between Demario Davis, A.J. Klein, Manti Te'o and Alex Anzalone, but the dispersion of snaps between them was noticeably different.

Some of that is dependent on the type of team the Saints face, but coach Sean Payton also sounded like he hopes the experiments with the different personnel groupings result in a more steady unit being on the field.