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Getty Images If you watched the Buccaneers lose 38-3 to the Saints in Week Nine and thought there’s no way Tampa Bay could win the Super Bowl, that was understandable. No team in NFL history had ever won the Super Bowl after suffering that bad a loss in the regular season. Of the 55 teams that...

Getty Images The Saints are saying goodbye to veteran offensive lineman Nick Easton. Easton, a center/guard who played 52 percent of the Saints’ offensive snaps last season, has been released. The move is not a big surprise, as it saves the Saints more than $5 million in salary cap space. New...

Getty Images In the Bears’ playoff game against the Saints, Chicago coach Matt Nagy used a trick play that had quarterback Mitchell Trubisky line up as a wide receiver, get the ball on a reverse, and then throw deep downfield. It would have gone for a touchdown if it hadn’t been dropped in the...

Getty Images Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert‘s first NFL season ended with the offensive rookie of the year award, so things are off to a fine start for the 2020 first-round pick. Building off that start in Herbert’s first full offseason as a pro will focus on two things. One is learning...

Getty Images Super Bowl LV has not been in the books for long, but it’s been long enough for sportsbooks to move on to futures betting on Super Bowl LVI. The Buccaneers are not favored to repeat, but they have been installed as one of the favorites to win the NFC. William Hill has the Chiefs...

Getty Images The 2020 season ended in Tampa. The 2021 season will start there. The Buccaneers, winners of Super Bowl LV, will host the Week One opener on the first Thursday of the next season. Here are the options, beyond the three NFC South rivals: Dolphins, Giants, Bears, Bills, and...

Getty Images The NFL is expected to hand down additional discipline against the Saints for violations of the league’s COVID-19 protocols. The Saints have already been fined a total of $750,000 and stripped of a seventh-round draft pick, while coach Sean Payton was fined $100,000, for two...

Getty Images Drew Brees has not yet announced his retirement, but in a hint that he’s preparing to do so, he has agreed with the Saints that he will dramatically reduce his 2021 salary. Brees is currently under contract for a $25 million salary in 2021 but has agreed to the league minimum of...

Getty Images Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes will face off in Sunday’s Super Bowl to decide the NFL champion for the 2020 season. The champion in merchandising sales already has been declared. The NFLPA released the latest numbers of merchandising sales for NFL players from the period covering...

Getty Images Regarding the question of whether Saints quarterback Drew Brees will retire, G.M. Mickey Loomis has made it clear that the team will wait for Brees to make a decision. However, there has been no sense from the team that the Saints are clamoring for Brees to come back. One member...

Getty Images The Saints want to keep quarterback Jameis Winston. Whether they’re able to do that is a different issue. Making the media rounds on Wednesday for Zebra Technologies, coach Sean Payton praised Winston and made it clear that the Saints want him back. “[O]ur exposure to Jameis was...

Getty Images Linebacker Demario Davis joined the Saints in 2018 and that means he’s been on hand for three straight disappointing losses in the playoffs. His first year ended with an overtime loss to the Rams in the NFC Championship Game and the last two seasons have seen the Saints lose as...

Getty Images It’s widely expected that Saints quarterback Drew Brees will retire. Brees has not yet made it official. Whatever he plans to do, the Saints expect to get an answer soon. “I think within the next week, week-and-a-half we’ll get a little bit more information relative to Drew,”...

Getty Images The Buccaneers replaced Jameis Winston with Tom Brady and now they’re playing in Super Bowl LV. But Winston’s NFL future could still be bright. He signed a one-year deal to be a backup in New Orleans in 2020 and apparently made a lasting positive impression on head coach Sean...

Getty Images The New Orleans Saints manage to thwart attempts from LSU to hire away assistant head coach Ryan Nielsen to serve as their defensive coordinator last month. Now they have a direct competitor taking a run at him as well. According to multiple reports, the Green Bay Packers have...

Getty Images Kris Richard will be back in the NFL for the 2021 season, but he will not be a defensive coordinator. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the Saints are hiring Richard as their secondary coach. Aaron Glenn left that position to become the defensive coordinator for the Lions...

Getty Images Nearly a decade after the Saints’ bounty scandal gave the NFL an opportunity to show that player health and safety has become a major priority (as long as the full extent of the cultural realities of bounties throughout the league was never fully explored), a much less problematic...

Getty Images NFL teams scouting Alabama quarterback Mac Jones may not get to use the Senior Bowl as a data point. Jones took part in practices for the game this week and remains in Mobile, but he is not sure if he will be able to play on Saturday. He injured his left ankle on Thursday and told...

Getty Images With the 2021 hiring cycle ended, extra draft picks eventually will be awarded to teams who lost minority candidates to coaching or G.M. jobs elsewhere. Four teams will receive multiple third-round picks in the 2021 draft as a result of the hiring of Brad Holmes from the Rams to...

Getty Images Reports ahead of the Saints’ divisional round loss to the Buccaneers indicated Saints quarterback Drew Brees would retire once the Saints were out of the playoffs. Brees didn’t make any announcement after the loss and General Manager Mickey Loomis showed no sign of knowing Brees’...