Mike Reiss reports Brandon Meriweather appreciates that Corwin Brown was a former NFL player.

"I think he’ll be extremely important. It’s the first safety coach I've ever had," Meriweather told a group of reporters. "I sat down and talked to him about five times and every time I talk to him, I’m intrigued by how much he knows. So it’s going to be good to actually have somebody I can actually communicate with who actually has played the position and knows what I’m looking at."

Asked a follow-up on how much credibility a coach has from having played in the NFL, Meriweather said it was a significant factor.

"It’s easy to say something when you’re just looking at it from an Xs and Os perspective, but until you actually have done it, you get a lot more credit when you say something," Meriweather stated.