Aaron Kromer will serve as the head coach of the Saints for the first six games of the season as interim coach Joe Vitt serves his suspension.

"He's certainly a very calm sideline presence on game day, which players love," offensive lineman Zach Strief. "The last thing you want, when you're in the heat of it and you're trying to do as well as you can, is to have someone come and tell you, you didn't.

"I don't need someone to tell me when I got beat ... and (Kromer) is very good at saying, 'What happened? What did he do? What can you do differently?' He talks through things and he allows you to kind of figure it out, and it keeps us a lot more consistent and level headed. I think he'll bring a lot of that to the sideline."

Vitt took on head coaching duties when Sean Payton's season-long suspension began in mid-April.