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NFL Franchise Notes: Payton Says Saints Will Not Consider Moving Training Camp

In Baton Rouge, Ramon Vargas notes some critics "couldn’t resist tracing the mediocrity" of the Saints' 7-9 season to "where it spent most of its preseason training camp: The Greenbrier, a luxury golf resort" in West Virginia. Some outsiders "surmised the camp made the team too soft." But coach Sean Payton said that it would be "'almost an excuse' to re-evaluate the decision to hold training camp" at The Greenbrier through at least '16. Payton: "Smart, disciplined, tough -- that environment can exist anywhere" (Baton Rouge ADVOCATE, 12/30).

MORE ACTIVE ROLE: Raiders Owner Mark Davis yesterday said that the club has "begun to make requests to organizations of prospective candidates" for the team's head coach position who are "available for interviews because their teams have a bye in the first round of the playoffs." In Oakland, Jerry McDonald notes while GM Reggie McKenzie "handled the interview and selection process" in '12 when Dennis Allen was hired, Davis "will take a more active role this time" (OAKLAND TRIBUNE, 12/30).

CAT SCRATCH FEVER
: In Jacksonville, Vito Stellino noted the Jaguars' schedule next season "may help their won-lost record," but it "could hurt their bottom line." The Jaguars "sold more than 61,000 tickets for three games" at EverBank Field this season -- Steelers (66,198), Dolphins (65,633) and Giants (64,687). The Dolphins "are the only one of the three" that is on the '15 schedule. The Jaguars also "don’t have any marquee teams on their home schedule" (JACKSONVILLE.com, 12/29).

FISH OUT OF WATER: In Ft. Lauderdale, Dave Hyde writes after Joe Philbin's third year as Dolphins coach, it is "obvious there's something sick inside the franchise." Maybe he "gets it right in Year Four," but the entire organization "looks lost in the wilderness, as it has been for years in wavering between irrelevance and incompetence" (South Florida SUN-SENTINEL, 12/30).

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