Stephanie Stradley’s Texans-Saints Q&A with Tom Mantzouranis

This week’s Saints-Texans Q&A is with Tom Mantzouranis (@TheMantz). Tom is senior producer of video strategy for Sports Illustrated @SInow. Among other sports jobs, he was one of the five of us who worked from the beginning to the end of the late, great FanHouse sports blog from 2006-2011. I miss working with him and love this opportunity to share our football conversation.

Q: What is different/same between this Saints team and previous ones?

A: The difference between this Saints team and the bulk of Saints teams in the Sean Payton/Drew Brees era will be pretty stark, but the differences between this year's team and last year's team are pretty minimal - for the most part, New Orleans returns…