Jan
10Have you driven across the GNO lately ? If so you may have saw the bulletin board near Claiborne and Earhart, if not here is a picture of it.
The Who Dat nation
I have heard that the sign was paid for by fans !! Wow.. what a great show of support from the fans !
The New Orleans Saints have one irreplaceable part.
Subtract Drew Brees, the best ever to play quarterback in the history of the franchise, and all bets are off. If Brees sits — for any reason — New Orleans is less than pedestrian, and anyone who says otherwise only does it to be contrary.
But it sure is noticeable, too, when running back Pierre Thomas is out or less than healthy.
Mind you, it’s not so decimating that the Saints can’t win without Thomas. New Orleans, in fact, has a 4-3 record this season when Thomas has carried the ball eight times or less.
But there’s no doubt postseason success, beginning with the Jan. 16 divisional playoff game at the Superdome, will be a lot easier if Thomas, who led the Saints with 1,095 yards from scrimmage, is on the field, helping carry the load.
New Orleans Saints starting left defensive end Charles Grant has had surgery to repair a torn triceps injury and has been placed on injured reserve, the Saints announced Tuesday.
It appears the injury occurred in the second quarter of Sunday’s 23-10 season-finale loss to the Carolina Panthers.
Grant suffered a similar injury last season that caused him to miss the last eight games of the season.
Grant had 44 tackles and 5 1/2 sacks this season. He was the team’s first-round draft pick in 2002 and has started 106 games with the Saints.
The Associated Press
METAIRIE — After starting the season 13-0, the New Orleans Saints are looking to get their swagger back after losing three in a row.
Coach Sean Payton is giving the Saints nearly a week off to clear their heads before they return to practice for double sessions Saturday and Sunday to begin preparing for a divisional playoff game. The Saints will open the playoffs at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 16 in the Louisiana Superdome against Philadelphia, Green Bay or Arizona, depending on this weekend’s first-round results.
Jan
04The NFL announced Monday that the New Orleans Saints’ divisional playoff game will be 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16 at the Superdome.
The Saints are off this week while the wild-card games are played.
The Minnesota Vikings will play Sunday, Jan. 17.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. –- Only time will tell if New Orleans coach Sean Payton made the right decision by turning the regular-season finale into a preseason game.
But, hey, maybe that’s just what the Saints needed to do –- go back to the preseason. That’s when they were paving the way for a 13-0 start and there’s no question it’s been at least three weeks since they were playing anything close to good football. Not exactly the way you want to go marching into the playoffs.
Payton could have decided to play all his starters and play them extensively in an effort to regain some momentum. But he sat a whole bunch of guys, including quarterback Drew Brees. Was it really important to get veteran backup Mark Brunell some work?
The New Orleans Saints are going to try to do something no team in the NFL has ever done.
Lose their final three regular season games and advance to the Super Bowl.
Against Carolina, the Saints didn’t really go in with winning in mind, sitting starting quarterback Drew Brees and pulling other starters early in the game, and fell to the Panthers 23-10.
Were there positives for the Saints? A few. Notably the play of running back Lynell Hamilton, who had 82 yards rushing and receing, and maybe the Reggie Bush punt returns, which today were more positive yards than we’ve seen during the season.
Now the Saints (13-3) will get a week off, then will try to regroup, get healthy and turn back on the switch that led them to the 13 wins. But, by the time they play on Jan. 17, it will have been a month since they’ve won a game.
Backup quarterback Mark Brunell was 15-of-29 for 102 yards.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – With nothing more to be accomplished in the regular-season finale, New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton decided not to play quarterback Drew Brees and a number of other starters in Sunday’s 23-10 loss to the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium.
If NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has his way, he would reward teams to avoid such practices.
With so many teams resting starters in Week 17 games, Goodell said the NFL will consider offering incentives to teams playing late-season games to discourage them from resting their starters for the playoffs.
In an interview with CBS, Goodell said various incentives will be considered, including awarding draft choices to teams that play their starters when the outcome won’t impact the playoff seeding.
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