The shooting death of former Saints defensive end Will Smith left one of New Orleans' high-profile residents searching for reasons for Smith's death and solutions for the violence.
"The problem is New Orleans perennially is way up in these homicides statistically," Drew Brees, the Saints quarterback who was Smith's teammate for seven seasons, told MMQB's Peter King. "We become desensitized to it. And so many people die, but we pay attention when it's Will Smith; that forces so many people who wouldn't normally deal with it to deal with the reality of a terrible thing, the gun violence in the city.