Kellen Moore isn’t ignoring the noise around the Saints’ 1-4 start - but he’s not letting it change the mission either.
After team owner Gayle Benson publicly said Tuesday that she could not accept the level of play she has seen this season, Moore addressed the comment Wednesday and kept the focus on what New Orleans can still control.
“Mrs. B is great.
And she, like all of us, we all want better results and that's how this business is. And so we got great guys in this building that are doing everything they can to find the formula,” the Saints head coach said, via ESPN's Katherine Terrell.
He added: “All we can control moving forward as far as playing better, coaching better, giving ourselves the opportunities moving forward. I think our guys have the right mindset against the NFL. There's ups and there's downs and it's about navigating those & getting better moving forward,” Moore continued.
The Saints have shown a few encouraging signs, even in a difficult opening stretch. They pushed the Detroit Lions to overtime in Week 1 and only came up short after a failed two-point conversion that would have won the game. In Week 2, New Orleans beat the Baltimore Ravens.
Since then, though, the results have turned harsh. The Saints have dropped three straight, and those losses have come with a lopsided scoring margin: 103-64 over that stretch. Only one of those defeats was close.
That kind of slide explains why Benson’s remarks landed the way they did. The owner wants a sharper product, and the fan base does too. New Orleans now gets a chance to steady things on Sunday against the New York Giants.
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