30 Jun
Mike Detillier, well respected in the Saints community, wrote an article on how the Saints should seek a trade for Raiders RB Lamont Jordan.
I don’t really understand how sending a draft pick for Lamont Jordan makes any sense. There are a ton of quality running backs available including a league MVP from a few seasons [...]
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25 Jun
The Saints were hampered with poor play at numerous positions last season, which caused the fall from NFC Championship Game participants to missing the playoffs entirely. Here is a look at the positions that most affected the team in a negative manner and reasons to hope for improvement:
#2 Corner: No matter who the Saints threw [...]
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18 Jun
Mike Florio, of ProFootballTalk.com, wrote an article for sportingnews.com about seven players around the NFL who are feeling the most pressure in 2008. Reggie Bush came in at #2 on his list and here is what he said about him:
2. Reggie Bush, running back, Saints. Bush deserves credit for taking football more seriously as he [...]
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15 Jun
Adam is attempting to live every football fans dream. He hails from London and this NFL season he will attend 35 games in 17 weeks. He will visit every NFL stadium during his trip. He will also attend Giants Stadium one more time (one for the Giants and another for the Jets), the games in [...]
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13 Jun
Initial reports on the contract extension for Will Smith valued the contract at 6 years and $70 million. ProFootballTalk.com is reporting that the true value of the deal is 7 years at $61.4 million. That deal seems pretty comparable to the 7-year $63 million contract given to Charles Grant last offseason.
The contract given to Grant [...]
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13 Jun
There is a new addition to the Fan-sided network, a Houston Texans blog- Toro Times.
The blogger over there is John R. Harden, a seventeen year-old season ticket holder. Lets just hope Fan-sided didn’t pull a Mario Williams over Reggie Bush on this one (I miss the times when that joke was good).
Anyways, good luck to [...]
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11 Jun
The NFC South has been the most unpredictable division in the NFL unless you predicted the last place team from the year before to win it. Last season, the Saints were the favorites to win the division and failed. This year they have the chance to redeem themselves and win it as favorites. Here are [...]
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11 Jun
DE Will Smith agreed to a monster contract extension with the team today, a six-year $70 million contract with $26 million worth in guarantees. The deal puts him only behind Vikings DE Jared Allen and Colts DE Dwight Freeney for the highest paid at the position.
Great move by the Saints front office by identifying future [...]
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10 Jun
Last week, a comedic Panthers blogger decided to take a jab at Drew Brees with a mole joke (yes, a mole joke). I made a comment back and dropped it. Well, now I remembered how much I hate the Panthers. So, I just want to remind him and their fans what their quarterbacks’ duties consisted [...]
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10 Jun
I always thought there was something wrong with the English and this further proves my point.
Adam, hailing from London, plans to attend 35 games this season.
I will be seeing the Saints three times on my trip (Saints v. Chargers in London; Saints v. Packers in New Orleans; and Saints v. Bears in Chicago. I have [...]
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