The Whistle Monsta isn’t ready to drink the Kool-Aid quite yet. But he’s close.
Colorful game-time persona aside, Saints super-fan Leroy “Whistle Monsta” Mitchell is also a realist. He soberly assesses the team’s prospects. He does not believe the hype. He doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid.
But after the Saints crushed the Buffalo Bills last weekend for their seventh consecutive win, Mitchell jokes, he “poured a third of a glass, and took a small sip. I’m not guzzling yet.”
Should the Saints beat the Washington Redskins in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Sunday, and prevail over the Los Angeles Rams the following week, Mitchell “will be getting drunk on that Kool-Aid.