METAIRIE, La. (AP) When linebacker A.J. Klein joined the Saints this offseason, he wasn’t keenly aware of the problems New Orleans had on defense during the past few seasons and remains uninterested in revisiting it.
”I really didn’t look into numbers. I didn’t look into what’s happened in the past,” Klein said after a minicamp practice on Wednesday. ”Right now I’m focused on the future, focused on building on what we have.”
And what the Saints have in their linebacker room looks considerably different than this time a year ago, when New Orleans was planning on 2016 free-agent signing James Laurinaitis taking over at middle linebacker, only to wind up releasing him less than halfway into last season.