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METAIRIE, La. – Step one foot inside the New Orleans Saints indoor practice facility, and you cannot miss the larger-than-life impression.

Sean Payton, suspended coach and in-house martyr, grimacing during a game with an intense stare the players know too well. He looms over the field on a 30-foot-by-30-foot banner. At the bottom of the image are the words Payton uttered to his team in April before starting the year-long ban imposed by Commissioner Roger Goodell as punishment for the bounty scandal.

Do your job.

"It is a little bit creepy," Saints wide receiver Lance Moore says. "I feel like he is looking right at me."

That's the point. Saints owner Tom Benson came up with the idea, hoping Payton's presence would serve as a motivational reminder with the coach prohibited from virtually all contact.

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