The New Orleans Saints are a team in transition. Drew Brees is gone, and he leaves uncertainty in his wake.
But even as they deal with the salary cap ramifications of years of restructures, the Saints aren’t asking for pity, and why should they? With a Super Bowl-winning head coach and plenty of talent still around on both sides of the ball, New Orleans is nobody’s underdog.
That’s the outside perspective, at least. To get a look at things from the Saints’ perspective, we turned to Chris Conner of Canal Street Chronicles for his take on the state of the team.