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Gregg Williams excitable and revealing in first Jets words: ‘Culture beats strategy’

Gregg Williams has been the Jets’ defensive coordinator since January, but Thursday was the first time he stood at the Atlantic Health Training Center podium to speak to the media.

Starting with a cordial, “Hello, hello,” he came out guns blazing.

“The reason I keep getting hired is culture,” Williams, who held the interim head coaching job in Cleveland last year, said. “And culture beats strategy any day of the week. It’s about how you find ways in yourself to be tougher, how you find ways to play harder, play smarter, for longer than any opponent you go against.