 Photo By: Stephen Lew Da Boot Sports 7/23/2025 Article Courtesy of Crescent City Sports By: Les East METAIRIE – The expectations for the 2025 New Orleans Saints are modest at best.Oddsmakers generally expect them to be among the worst teams in the NFL, no network plans to show any of their games in prime time, and although fans seem able to muster the typical mid-summer enthusiasm they also seem cautious in hoping for an end to a four-year playoff drought. But none of that matters. What does matter is what the coaches and players do, beginning with the first training camp practice, which lasted a little more than an hour Wednesday morning. Executive Vice President/General Manager Mickey Loomis made an important distinction during his pre-camp news conference Tuesday, noting that expectations come from “outside the building” whereas “inside the building” expectations are replaced by “aspirations.” “The expectations out there are that it’s going to take a long time (to have success), but our goals are still the same,” Loomis said. “Our goals are to win every game, to win the NFC South and work toward a Super Bowl. That’s what we’re working toward. “I don’t look at it as a rebuild even though you might say we have a lot of young players that we want to develop. I don’t think that teams really think about expectations. They think about goals and ‘how do we get there?’” The low expectations are understandable given that the team had a 5-12 record a year ago, Kellen Moore has never been a head coach before, the quarterback group is the least experienced in the NFL and the roster is filled with question marks. “I recognize that we’ve got a young team here,” Loomis said. “The most important position in the building is inexperienced. That’s the reality of it. We can’t put our head in the closet and not recognize that. We do recognize that so we have to be particularly good in a lot of other areas and develop the quarterback.” Just as the low expectations are understandable, so too is hope that this team can exceed expectations. The last two times that the Saints brought in a new head coach from outside the organization they were coming off a bad season, faced low expectations and exceeded those expectations significantly. Loomis arrived in New Orleans in 2000 as assistant general manager, working with first-year general manager Randy Mueller, who hired Jim Haslett to be head coach. New Orleans entered that season with a streak of seven consecutive non-winning seasons, the last six of which featured a losing record. The 1999 team had gone 3-13. Mueller overhauled the roster and Haslett guided the 2000 team to a 10-6 record, the NFC South title and the franchise’s first playoff victory – a 31-28 triumph over the reigning Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams. In 2006 the Saints were coming off a disastrous 3-13 season in Haslett’s final season, which was skewed because of the franchise’s displacement to San Antonio because of Hurricane Katrina. The expectations for rookie head coach Sean Payton and a remade roster were very low, but the team went 10-6 again, won the NFC South again and went to the NFC Championship Game for the first time. “There’s always an opportunity for things to fall into place and be successful,” Loomis said. The last time the Saints hired a head coach they promoted Dennis Allen from defensive coordinator when Payton resigned after 2021 season. “We recognize that it doesn’t always happen overnight,” Loomis said. “Occasionally it does happen within the span of a short time.” The workout Wednesday was the first of 23 training-camp practices, five of which will take place in Irvine, California in conjunction with the preseason opener against the Chargers in Los Angeles on August 10. They will return home for their final two preseason games in the Caesars Superdome, where they will open the regular season September 7 against the Arizona Cardinals. Ultimately whether this team is better or worse than the expectations for it won’t be fully known until the regular season ends early next January. “We’re building,” running back Alvin Kamara said after practice. “We have to earn the respect of these coaches and we’ve got to get back the respect of the fans. Sundays will take care of themselves.” Kamara added that he doesn’t pay attention to “the noise” of outsiders’ expectations. Defensive end Cameron Jordan felt the same way. “What’s important,” Jordan said, “is how we feel about us.” John 14:6 - "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior) *John 3;16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. A huge Thank You to Cardio Health Solutions owned by Ron Sancho for sponsoring and believing in our publication!
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