Everything just clicked; you could see it watching on TV. He was standing over the ball and calling out the (blocking assignments) on the linebackers, just like with the Saints.

That wasn't a coincidence. Those are our playmakers, and we've got to get the ball to them. So they do what they do, we do what we do, and everybody makes out good. It's a great thing to have them, man. When you've got talent like that on your side, you can't do anything but have success for the most part.

[Turley, known for his play-through-the-whistle approach in his five seasons in New Orleans, was put on the trading block after the Saints balked at his contract demands. The Rams acquired him for a second-round pick in 2004, then signed him to a six-year, $26.5 million deal.] I give Mike Martz a lot of credit, ... He was able to put aside all of that crap from the past and recognize the passion I bring to the game.

The guy's a natural general, and he's a genius when it comes to football. He could be the best coach ever with all he knows about the game.

I don't buy the bonding thing, either. I mean, there are 80 guys up here, and a lot of them won't even be on the team. And it's not like we're going out and doing anything together; it's all football, all the time. It would be more valuable to wait until the final roster cuts and then have a big party for everyone who makes the team.

With my intensity and athletic ability, I think that would be a natural switch, ... I'm just as fast as almost all those [defensive ends] out there, and as athletic, or more, than half of them. And my tenacity supersedes all of that. There are a lot of guys at that position who have gotten paid that are a bunch of slaps, and I know  I could do better than them.