A Special Edition of Saints Insider

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A reminder that today (Thursday) is our special weekly subscriber-only edition of the Saints Insider newsletter.

Every Thursday, NOLA.com columnist Jeff Duncan will share insights on the Black and Gold exclusively with paid subscribers.

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Here's a short preview of what Jeff shares in today's edition: 

This week, I wanted to give you the background and behind-the-scenes tick tock on how the big succession plan story on the Saints came together.

The story dropped on Wednesday night as the first installment in our exclusive series on the Future of the Saints and Pelicans, which will run through Sunday on NOLA.com and in the Times-Picayune. The series is the culmination of more than year’s work from myself and Lee Zurik, the lead investigative reporter at WVUE-TV in New Orleans. Lee and I worked together previously on the award-winning Field of Dreams story in 2019, and this was the second project we’ve teamed on since I started working at FOX-8 TV as a Saints analyst two years ago.

Lee and I initially planned to take a deep dive into the complicated and controversial lease agreement between the Saints and the state of Louisiana. No one had looked under the hood at the details of the contract since it was re-negotiated in 2012, and we thought the public would be interested in re-evaluating the deal and whether it was a good one for state taxpayers.

But our reporting took us in another direction ... This is a series you don't want to miss.

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