NFL: Saints Choose Interim Coach
Joe Vitt will take over as Saints' interim coach Monday
* NFL.com
* Published: April 13, 2012 at 09:38 a.m.
New Orleans Saints assistant Joe Vitt will assume suspended coach Sean Payton's day-to-day duties, effective Monday, the team announced.
"It is important that we keep Sean Payton's philosophy front and center during this season," Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said in a statement released by the team Thursday. "Sean has been the driving force behind the tremendous success our team has enjoyed during the past six years, (and) his leadership will be missed. But we need to set a course of action that gives us the best chance to win this season without our head coach, and that is why I am announcing today that Joe Vitt will assume Sean's duties."
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