Saints* Now Have Trouble With Ownership

[Ken]

Per Pro Football Talk

The New Orleans Saints are a team without their leader on the field with quarterbackDrew Brees unsigned, and a team without their leader on the sidelines with head coach Sean Payton suspended. And they may also be a team facing leadership questions at the highest levels of their front office.

Saints owner Tom Benson has often praised his 35-year-old granddaughter, Rita Benson LeBlanc, as the right person to lead the franchise for decades to come. But the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports, citing multiple unnamed sources, that LeBlanc is serving some form of unofficial paid administrative leave, imposed by Benson, because the man who has owned the Saints for 27 years is growing concerned with his granddaughter’s approach to business.

The report is short on specifics, saying only that Benson saw “a pattern of behavior that needed to be corrected” from his granddaughter. Among the issues raised are a “lack of focus and abrasive management style,” evidenced by, among other things, going through an estimated 30 assistants in her six years of working full-time with the team. She’s also reportedly “developed a reputation for stalling projects,” and Benson (who made his own money) is concerned that his granddaughter (who was born rich) has developed a sense of entitlement.

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[D34Williams]

Don't worry, it will all be straightened out next week when Brees is due in to sign his multi century contract worth a million fafillion dollars

[Hotsauce]

Dirty city, dirty players, dirty coaches, dirty, stuck up owners...who dat??? Dats just another day in New Orleans!

[Fiz]

in the future you should just link the actual article by the people that worked to write it instead of florios wild speculation and editorializing.

[Riverboat Ron]

Without knowing anything about her I immediately imagined Rachel Phelps from Major League.

[Argus Plexus]

This is good

[Herbert The Love Bug]

what's he thinking letting a girl run the team?

[R0CKnR0LLA]

here's the granddaughter... and no, I wouldn't hit that...

[2jakefansinva]

good thing we've never had any issues with our owner and his offspring.

[Dex]

[savage]

you do know that richardson fired his sons from our organization , right?

[carolinarolls]

Batsh-t crazy Benton and Christina Pagniacci.

what a pair

[Snake]

The Saints will be sold in a few year.