IRVINE, Calif. — The New Orleans Saints have one preseason game in the books. After Sunday’s 27-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, the Saints’ coaching staff now gets a full game of tape to dissect, break down and pick apart the quarterback competition — and so much more.

And so do we.

With beat writers Luke Johnson and Matthew Paras still out west for training camp, the two took a — ahem — beat to ponder some lingering questions from the team’s first exhibition game of the year.

Did Sunday’s preseason opener change the way you view the Saints’ quarterback competition?

Luke Johnson: If we’re talking a full picture, then it changed only a few degrees for me: I think the gap between the two still exists, but it is closing. Tyler Shough continued the upward trajectory that we’ve seen

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