re: Is it safe?

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But is preseason not somewhat of an indicator of how a team will do in the regular season?

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No, not really.

Principle wants out of pre-season include:

1) Lack of injuries
2) new player evaluations/timing development
3) knock the rust off for returning veterans

This holds for most teams with solid rosters. The SAINTS are one of these teams. Long Snapper is one of the only starting position battles going on. Rest of the battles are for back-up/ST players, etc....

Hell, Drew Brees did not even PLAY... This should tell you something.

For teams with sub-par talent, PS becomes more important. Battles for key starters become important.

For the Saints look to their performance and precision in the 3rd pre-season game. Mainly in the 1st half of that game. The 4th PS game is usually a throw-away, if not you are usually in trouble.