Saints, Tom Benson banking on Sean Payton, Drew Brees to return team to glory days
 

Repeat after me, Saints fans.

Five more years!

Five more years!

Five more years!

For better or worse, that's what you're getting in the Sean Payton-Drew Brees era of New Orleans Saints football.

It's an election year and the Saints have chosen to stick with the incumbents.

With Payton ready to sign a new five-year deal and Brees negotiating a four-year extension, the coach-quarterback battery responsible for the most successful era in Saints history will enjoy another half-decade together in New Orleans.

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If you like free-wheeling, high-scoring, defense-optional football, then you're second-lining to Wednesday's news. If you are worried this thing is headed south the way the Jim Mora era did, well, you're crying in your chicory coffee.

Tom Benson clearly is banking on the former.

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