Kellen Moore isn’t bristling at Gayle Benson’s public message. He’s treating it like part of the job.
With the Saints sitting at 1-4, the New Orleans owner used an eight-minute speech Tuesday at the GNO quarterback club to call the start “unacceptable” and push the team to sharpen up, clean up mistakes and turn things around. Moore said he has not met with Benson to go over the slow start, but he made clear he had no issue with her saying it out loud.
“Mrs. B’s great," Moore said.
"She, like all of us, wants better results. That’s how this business is.
We’ve got great guys in this building doing what they can to find a formula. All we can control is moving forward, as far as playing better, coaching better, giving ourselves better opportunities.
"I think our guys have the right mindset. Again, it’s the NFL, there’s ups and there’s downs, it’s about navigating those and getting better moving forward.”
Moore also pushed back on the idea that Benson’s comments changed the temperature inside the building. He said he didn’t take them as an ultimatum and didn’t feel they added another layer of urgency.
"It’s where we’re at," Moore said. "We’re 1-4, missed a few opportunities right there.
Again, we all want the same thing. We’re all shooting for that, we’ve all got the same objectives, we’ve just got to get better moving forward.”
As for a sit-down with Benson, Moore said they cross paths “a few times” during the week, though they haven’t had a meeting about the points she raised.
He said the outside noise around his own job status doesn’t register either.
"There’s the task at hand and we’re focused on that," Moore said. "I can’t worry about any of that other stuff.
This is the NFL, we’ve all been through plenty of seasons, there’s highs, there’s lows, obviously there’s emotions related to it. But you’ve just got to focus on the task at hand.
Seasons take plenty of different courses.”
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