After last season came to an end, Sean Payton and the New Orleans Saints staff began their typical preparations for the next season.
Research projects were assigned to several staffers to comb the game film of other teams around the league and evaluate the things those teams did well, or things they did differently from what was happening in New Orleans. Notes were taken, film was cut up, and at the end there was a stack of new ideas.
Not all of them made the cut. Some things didn’t fit with what the Saints do. Other things did.