Seahawks and Saints connections

[Bru-Hed]

From the Saints site:

CONNECTIONS:
QB Drew Brees and Seahawks DT Craig Terrill were teammates at Purdue...

RB Reggie Bush, DT Sedrick Ellis, Seahawks LB Lofa Tatupu and WR Mike Williams were teammates at the USC where they were tutored by Seattle coach Pete Carroll. Bush was tutored on returns with the Trojans by Seattle special teams coach Brian Schneider.

Executive VP/GM Mickey Loomis spent 15 years with Seattle, most recently as Executive VP from 1992-98. He originally joined the Seahawks in October 1983, as the team’s business manager and was promoted to VP/finance in 1990...

Dir. of operations James Nagaoka served on the Seahawks staff for 22 years, holding a wide spectrum of responsibilities...Dir. of college scouting Rick Reiprish served on the Seahawks scouting staff from 1984-94...
Area scout Mike Baugh is a graduate of Central Washington, who spent eight years in various capacities with the Seahawks from 1992-99...
RB Julius Jones played for Seattle from 2008-10...RB Chris Ivory played at Washington State...
LB Jonathan Vilma, Seattle TE Chris Baker and RB Leon Washington were teammates with the New York Jets. C Jonathan Goodwin also played with Baker in New York. Vilma and Seattle CB Kelly Jennings were teammates at the University of Miami (Fl.)...
LB Stanley Arnoux and Seattle LB Aaron Curry were teammates at Wake Forest...

Seattle K Olindo Mare played for New Orleans in 2007. FB Heath Evans was a third round draft choice of Seattle in 2001 and played for the Seahawks from 2001-04. Evans and Mare were teammates in Miami in 2005...
Asst. head coach/linebackers Joe Vitt spent 10 seasons with the Seahawks (1982-91), holding several titles during that stretch...
Seattle QB J.P. Losman quarterbacked Tulane from 2000-03...
LB Danny Clark and Seahawks quality control/offensive line coach Luke Butkus were teammates at the University of Illinois...
S Darren Sharper was a teammate of Seattle QB Matt Hasselbeck in Green Bay from 1998-2000...

Defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and Seattle defensive backs coach Jerry Gray share a long affiliation. Gray served on Williams’ defensive staff in Tennessee from 1997-2000. When Williams served as head coach in Buffalo from 2001-03, Gray was his coordinator and also served on his defensive staff in Washington from 2006-07. Gray coached CB Jabari Greer in Buffalo and tutored S Pierson Prioleau with the Bills and Redskins.
Seattle linebackers coach Ken Norton Jr., asst. special teams coach Jeff Ulbrich and Prioleau were teammates in San Francisco from 1999-2000. Williams coached Seahawks S Lawyer Milloy in Buffalo in 2003 and he played with Greer and Prioleau in the same Bills backfield...

RB Ladell Betts was tutored by Seattle running backs coach Sherman Smith where in Washington from 2008-09...Seattle LB Matt McCoy played for the Saints in 2007...
Running game/offensive line coach Aaron Kromer and Seattle assistant offensive line coach Art Valero served on the same staff in Tampa Bay from 2005-07...
LB Anthony Waters and Seattle QB Charlie Whitehurst were teammates at Clemson...
Seattle C Chris Spencer prepped at Madison Central (Miss.) HS and played at Mississippi...

 

[Bru-Hed]

Not that any of it matters, just interesting. Some I was aware of, but most I was not!

 

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Is Julius Jones still there?

 

[Fenom]

Is Julius Jones still there?

He's still with the Saints, but receiving the least amount of carries. If Reggie Bush is ready to go for Sunday, Jones will probably be waived.

 

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Well for the time being there's one more connection.