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“We’ll meet collectively as a personnel department and coaching staff and go through each player on the roster,” Payton said Wednesday. “Vision, grade, strengths, weaknesses (for each player) and after that meeting takes place, you transition into your scouting, the college draft, Senior Bowl and then any potential free agent we would want to coach or someone else could put their eyes on.”

For that reason, the decisions that seem to be looming over the Saints — particularly decisions on core veterans like Marques Colston and Zach Strief — are only in the beginning stages right now.

When Payton met with the players in the days after the win over Atlanta in the season finale, the focus was more on 2015 than what the team might do in 2016.

“I spent a half an hour with Marques the other day in my office, and Zach today for half an hour,” Payton said Wednesday. “Nothing about next year, the future. It was really about this past year, how they are feeling, what’s their health like, just those types of things.”

After a week off, Saints coaching staff will dive deep into offseason work | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, Louisiana

"A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."

hagan714

let the butchers party begin

RaginCajun83

There will be blood

Rugby Saint II

Let's not limit ourselves to cutting just players.......we've got some position coaches that have to go too! While we're at it let's grab McMahon and put him on the chopping block as well.

jnormand

Idk if Sean will cut any position coaches, although I'd like to see it happen. If he keeps his coaches, I hope there is some improvement. I'm excited he stayed with the Saints but he needs to get more from his assistants and get the team back in the playoffs.

SmashMouth

A week off already? Couldn't have foreseen that!

Danno

I think many of you will be shocked at what happens next.

saintsfan1976

Who's collectively assessing the coaching staff?

Danno

A million fans that don't have a clue?