Underhill article: “Saints moves are telling us what they felt the real problem with the team was last season”

StudioSaint said

I think improving the depth and keeping players healthier will lead to a much better season. We'll have a clearer picture of the depth situation after the undrafted free agent signing period. Unfortunately, we won't know how the health issue looks until the season is over. Fingers crossed though.

The biggest change they made was probably the most important and could create the biggest improvement. Better coaching can get better results out of the same players. I'm not saying better coaching can turn a back up into an all pro, but it can be the difference between a player being a solid backup or a weak backup. It can also make your good players even better.

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This is a good way to look at it. Personally I'm not knocked out by our current depth chart but staying healthy and having better coaching can't hurt. If your starters are healthy then you're bound to be better by default. How many times have we seen a new coaching staff come in and teams turn it around quickly? It's fairly routine. For the Saints the buy in wasn't there with Dennis Allen. His message was falling on deaf ears. But even if the players were all in and ready to run through walls for DA, they weren't healthy enough to do anything significant.

Better coaching. Better scheme on both sides of the ball. A little luck with injuries. Throw in a dash of young talent and we might be working with something. But more than anything else I now have hope again. That's the most important thing. From fans to players, we all need hope. We might win 4 games this season and whatever will be will be but here on St. Patrick's Day 2025 I sit at my desk and I type, and I have hope.