Saints Training Camp Day One takeaways and thoughts. Why is there less confidence in this team?

How the Saints can make the most out of a rebuilding year. 2025 New Orleans Saints Season Preview

The 2025 football season will be the most thorough rebuilding year the New Orleans Saints have undergone in recent memory. Kellen Moore takes control of a team that is in the process of aging down and building around core pieces that will need to become future faces of the franchise. The season will most likely act as an audition for many players who look to fully submit themselves as top young talents in the league. However, with opportunity also comes the potential for great struggle and if the team does not rally together one of the worst performances in franchise history could become reality for first season head coach Kellen Moore.

The Saints return home from Cali and prepare to face the Jaguars in Kellen Moore's home debut! - True Bayou Sports Media Primetime

Week two of the preseason brings the Saints home to face last year's Hesiman Trophy Winner Travis Hunter and the rest of a new look Jags offense. The match up puts two first year head coaches in the spotlight as the Saints look to find out more as position battles continue in all three phases of the game.

The Saints QB Battle heats up in SoCal and what Kellen Moore will have to change this week.

The start to the 2025 preseason was a reflection of the new changes made to this team while still facing the core causes of past struggles. Spencer Rattler would find some success in his opportunity to get the 1st start at QB. However, a lack of scoring would lead to mixed emotions from Saints fans. Tyler Shough put up the most points in his outing but as the Saints twos and three's came out of defense the floodgates for points was too much for the boys in black and gold. Now with a match up against another young team facing them the Saints will look to get a win in the Dome and find out more as injuries and position battles set the tone going into preseason week 2.

Saints Training Camp has shown the position battles to Watch! Preseason Game 1 will move the focus

As the pads came on so did stronger signs of where the full extent of position battles lie. Kellen Moore enters his final week of pure practice and drills with a team that will demand his attention as the fight for playing time is increased. This weekend will be a chance to determine who gets the bulk of playing time this preseason and could foreshadow what to expect in the regular season.

Saints Training Camp Day One takeaways and thoughts. Why is there less confidence in this team?

Kellen Moore started his first Training Camp as a head coach with little to no issues. However, the team is falling deeper out of favorability with football minds following Tyrann Mathieu's retirement announcement. The Saints will no doubt be a constant talking point this preseason as position battles are now forming all around the field. Despite the outside noise players like Cam Jordan and Chris Olave remain excited when interviewed about how all the changes are effecting the team.