With devastating flooding in and around The Greenbrier in West Virginia, real questions have arisen regarding whether the facility will be ready to host the Saints for training camp, starting in late July.
Gil Brandt of NFL.com has reported that the Saints will not be coming to West Virginia this year, and that they instead will train at the team’s facility in Metairie, Louisiana.
However, the Saints haven’t announced this news, and a team spokesman told PFT that word of a change in location of training camp has not yet made its way to him.
It won’t be a surprise if training camp ultimately is relocated, but a lot can be done to clean up after flooding in a month’s time. With initial accounts indicating that the practice facility itself wasn’t affected by the flooding, it’s possible that the situation could be remedied in time for the Saints to return for a third year in West Virginia.
Obviously, the Saints need to be sure that they’ll be able to conduct a productive and meaningful camp, and if they simply can’t do that in West Virginia, they shouldn’t. If they can, having them present for a few weeks would be a solid first step in the process of rebuilding a region that underwent dramatic changes in a very short period of time.
