Nick Underhill: Saints Might Not Move on from DA

I think you are giving Gayle Benson too much credit. Meeting with a player doesn't mean she's involved in personnel decisions.

No, but it means that she is involved and knows what is going on with the team. I'm sure she defers to the people she hired to make personnel decisions but she clearly wanted to meet and vet the guy that they wanted her to pay hundreds of million of dollars to and she was willing to be a part of the recruiting team trying to get Watson to come to the Saints. And she may have had something to do with the Saints not being willing to guarantee the entire contract the way Cleveland did.