Published October 14, 2026 05:01 PM
Saints owner Gayle Benson didn’t pull any punches in her assessment of the team’s start to the season in a speech on Tuesday.
Benson said that the team’s fans are right to be upset about their play during a 1-4 start and that she “will not accept this level of performance as our standard.” Benson also said she is “committed to making the decisions necessary to improving this team” and it was hard not to read those comments as a mandate for those currently in charge of the team to show that improvement or find new places to work.
That group includes head coach Kellen Moore and his Wednesday press conference opened with several questions about Benson’s speech. Moore said he did not feel an increased sense of urgency because he already understood that “we all want better results” and that everyone in the organization is doing all they can to create them.
“It’s where we’re at. We’re 1-4, missed a few opportunities right there,” Moore said. “We all want the same thing. We’re all shooting for that. We’ve all got the same objectives and we just gotta get better moving forward.”
Wanting the same things that Benson is talking about and achieving them are different things, which makes it all the more incumbent on Moore and the rest of the staff showing that they can do the latter before ownership decides that someone else will have a better chance of succeeding.