There's a lot of youth throughout the Saints defense, with two rookies starting in the secondary, and several of the defensive line's key contributors only boasting a year of NFL experience.
However the Saints linebacking core boasts a lot of experience and that group has played "solid" through the first quarter of New Orleans' season.
"I think the group has performed solidly," Saints defensive coordinator Dennis Allen said. "I would say they're probably not a whole lot different than the rest of the guys on the defense, in terms of I don't know that we played as well as we could have in the first couple weeks of the season.