Archive for June, 2008

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 ago (Shaun Alexander). Also available are: Cedric Benson, Travis Henry, Kevin Jones and Najeh Davenport. Jordan hasn’t accomplished as much as some of the players available and would also require a draft pick, which the others wouldn’t. If the Saints were to consider adding [...]

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 out there, the person played poorly. Jason David looked like he moved from quarterback to corner for the majority of the season. Usama Young looked like a rookie. Jason Craft is serviceable as a reserve but when thrown out as a starter, he is [...]

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 prepares for his third season. But will showing up for most of the offseason workouts and generally caring more about the game allow him to suddenly run circles around NFL defensive backs, just like he made Fresno State defenders look like blindfolded schoolchildren with [...]

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 Toronto and London game, and an extra trip to Soldier Field to see his favorite team, the Bears, one more time. He is also leaving behind his girlfriend and job, as well as selling his apartment to go on this trip. I posted a story [...]

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 had $20 million worth in guarantees. PFT claims that Will Smith’s contract has $25 million worth in guarantees. Thats a ton of money invested into the defensive end position which makes you wonder how close Charles Grant is from having his job in jeopardy. [...]

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 John.

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 the odds to win the NFC South, according to Bodog: Saints: 5/4 Buccaneers: 15/8 Panthers (1 spot too high): 9/4 Falcons: 14/1

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 pieces of the team and trying to lock them up. The Saints have managed the cap well with Mickey Loomis in charge and have yet to lose key players for cap purposes. The team is still in good shape cap-wise and WR Marques Colston [...]

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 of when he was on the Saints. Here it is:

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 set myself the task of always supporting the home team, which will be difficult for me in my second game, when I will have to root for the Colts against my beloved Bears! Naturally I will be rooting for the Bears when the [...]