But no one can now make that claim.

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Jabari Greer, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] give New Orleans Saints winning edge
One thing has become abundantly clear in the past nine months.
The New Orleans Saints are a completely different team with Jabari Greer and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] at cornerback.
With those two on the field,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they are a dominant team, a championship team, perhaps the best team in the NFL.
When Greer and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] teamed on the defensive flanks, New Orleans' defense goes to another level. They complement the club's high-powered offense and transform the Saints into a complete team.
Since Greer signed as a free agent and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] returned to health in 2009, the Saints are 12-0 in games when they start in tandem. They've won those contests by an average margin of 15 points.
We know numbers lie, but there's no way to diminish New Orleans' defensive statistics in its past four games.
The knock on the Saints' defense midway through last season was that their takeaway totals were built on a schedule stacked with rookie and first-year quarterbacks -- players like Matthew Stafford, Kevin Kolb, Mark Sanchez and Josh Freeman.
But no one can now make that claim.
Few teams in NFL history have faced a gauntlet as formidable as the four-game stretch the Saints just completed.
In that span, which includes all three playoff contests from last season, New Orleans has stymied three Hall of Fame-caliber quarterbacks -- Kurt Warner, Brett Favre (twice) and Peyton Manning.
Against the Saints, they completed 98 of 154 passes for an average of 270 yards a game with three touchdowns and five interceptions.
Their combined passer efficiency rating was 77.2, well below their combined career rating of 90.7.
Pass defense doesn't get much better than that.
In fact, it might be the best stretch of pass defense in Saints history.
The Dome Patrol dominated offenses with a ferocious pass rush. They brutalized opponents on first and second down, then came after the quarterback on third down. But they never played pass defense with the proficiency or success of this New Orleans team.
And it all starts with the blanket coverage of the corners.
Minnesota Vikings receivers Bernard Berrian, Percy Harvin and Greg Camarillo were basically non-factors Thursday night at the Superdome. They combined to catch only three passes for 44 yards. Through the first three quarters, they had two catches for 15 yards.
Of the 12 times Farve tried to pass to receivers, he only completed four.
With [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and Greer locking down the receivers outside, Favre was forced to throw to his tight ends and running backs, who combined to make 11 of the Vikings' 15 catches.
"Jabari and Tracy bring a whole different dynamic of our defense, " free safety Malcolm Jenkins said. "They're able to lock down receivers outside, and it frees everyone else up on the defense."
The lockdown work of Greer and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] allows Jenkins to plant himself in deep center field and prevent big pass plays downfield. Opposing receivers have combined to catch just three passes for gains of longer than 20 yards in the past four games.
"Their style of defense last year was the same as it was tonight, " Favre said Thursday night. "They are not going to give up an outside big play. You are going to have to catch it underneath and run."
More often than not, those runs don't go very far. Other than the back-to-back strikes to Visanthe Shiancoe before halftime and a 29-yard connection with Camarillo, the Vikings didn't have a pass play of longer than 14 yards.
And much of that can be attributed to the stellar play of Greer and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"I know when those guys are out there, I feel like I have just an extra second to get after the quarterback, " defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis said. "We struggled when those guys were injured last year. They make a difference."
More than that, they make the Saints dominant.

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