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Saints News, 10/24/14: Payton Uses Cartoon To Motivate Struggling Saints

From WWLTV.com: An illustration was hung in each of the players' lockers, showing a man digging for diamonds, only to give up just before he breaks through to the bounty. Just above the man who quits is another continuing to pick away despite having much farther to go before reaching the reward. "I think it's a great reminder. I think the picture is dead on," right guard Jahri Evans said. "It's saying you ... have to keep plugging away, keep working, because you don't know when that opportunity is going to come, or when in the picture that seal is going to break and everything, all the stuff you've worked for, is going to pour out into your hands."

By David "Satch" Kelly
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"I think it's a great reminder. I think the picture is dead on," right guard Jahri Evans said. "It's saying you ... have to keep plugging away, keep working, because you don't know when that opportunity is going to come, or when in the picture that seal is going to break and everything, all the stuff you've worked for, is going to pour out into your hands."

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