Nick Underhill: Saints Might Not Move on from DA

DaveXA said
Not directly, but it's certainly not hard to draw a conclusion that she's not as distant as a few people claim she is.

And ultimately, it's her decision how the money gets spent because she does own the team and does consult with Dennis Lauscha and probably others when making key personnel decisions. I can't see why anyone would doubt that.

I just don’t understand what Mrs. Benson is doing so differently than 28 to 30 of the other owners that has people reaching this conclusion.

Are other teams owners out there lighting into their front office executives or coach publicly? No. Only a small handful of guys operate that way, and ironically they’re owners of teams that have been pretty moribund.

People are acting like this is our third straight 2-6 start or something. This truly is the first absolute “stinker” season and everyone is expecting the owner to come out guns ablazing to show she cares?

I don’t understand the expectations here. I know it’s been a long time since our team has been bad to this degree, but the behavior they’re looking for from ownership isn’t how most owners operate in these situations.

They have people hired to handle these football related things, and when it comes time to make a decision on those hires, they get talked about and handled behind closed doors.

We have a long tenured, 23+ year GM. We aren’t going to just fire him or blast him through the media the way people want him to be. As emotional as people are, the guy is going to get his due respect with how it is handled if they decide to make a move.