Length of Saints’ displacement uncertain as Week 1 begins

The Saints expect the Dallas area and TCU practice facilities to serve as their home base into at least Week 2 of the NFL season, coach Sean Payton said Monday. When the team boards the plane out of Jacksonville following that game, “my anticipation is after this game we’ll be coming back that night to this location,” Payton said, referring to the Dallas area. But even as electricity began returning to many New Orleans neighborhoods last weekend, Saints equipment personnel were back at team headquarters, packing up equipment to bring to Dallas that hadn’t made it on the initial trip on Aug. 28 as Ida spun toward Louisiana’s coast as a Hurricane. I don’t think it’s something I look at in negative light.” Payton coached the Saints to the franchise’s only Super Bowl less than five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the New Orleans area, while recovery from that disaster was still ongoing. “Players are proud and recognize the unique fan base and the region they get a chance to play for.” NOTES: The Saints signed defensive tackle Montravius Adams and also brought back receiver Chris Hogan and reserve quarterback Trevor Siemian, who’d been cut at the end of the preseason..