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Getty Images The Bears have 139 yards and three points. Now down by 11 points, they quickly will have to figure out something on offense if they are going to mount anything resembling a comeback. Drew Brees threw his second touchdown of the day, hitting running back Latavius Murray for a...

Getty Images Alvin Kamara had six touchdowns in his last game, which came on Christmas Day against the Vikings. He has his first today against the Bears, perhaps icing a Saints’ wild-card victory. Kamara, who missed Week 17 with COVID-19, scored on a 3-yard run with 8:50 remaining. The Saints...

Getty Images The Saints have been flirting lately with a guy who knows a thing or two about kicking in the postseason. More accurately, about missing kicks in the postseason. After giving both Blair Walsh and Chandler Catanzaro tryouts on January 1, the Saints had a Saturday visit with Walsh...

USA TODAY Sports With the NFC’s No. 5 seed and No. 6 seed winning on Saturday, there’s a chance for a clean sweep by the road teams, if the Bears upend the Saints today. And if that happens, the Buccaneers will be hosting a game in the divisional round. A Chicago win would send the Bears to...

USA TODAY Sports Thirty-five years ago, the 1985 Bears went to New Orleans and destroyed the Patriots en route to Chicago’s first, and only, Super Bowl win. For the first time since that 46-10 victory, the Bears return to New Orleans for a postseason game. The Bears have played the Saints...

Getty Images The Saints knew they’d have a chance of getting running back Alvin Kamara back for their Wild Card round game against the Bears when the NFL scheduled it on Sunday and they officially added Kamara to the roster on Saturday. Kamara is off the COVID-19 reserve list after missing the...

Getty Images The Bears downgraded inside linebacker Roquan Smith to out Saturday. He will not play Sunday against the Saints. The Bears also announced they won’t have rookie receiver Darnell Mooney as he, too, didn’t make the trip. Neither practiced all week, and the team had listed them as...

Getty Images More points and touchdowns were scored in 2020 than in any season in NFL history. Over the league’s 256 regular-season games, teams scored 12,692 total points and 1,473 touchdowns, both new NFL records. The previous record for points was 11,985, set in 2013, and the previous...

Getty Images For the first time since eight games were played in the quarterfinal round of the 1982 playoff tournament, which expanded to 16 teams after a strike shortened the season to nine games, the NFL has more than four games in a postseason weekend. The six games to be played over the...

Getty Images The NFL previously has had six TV windows in two days. It also has had at least six playoff games in the same weekend, in 1982. It’s never had six games in six windows, all of which were televised nationally. That’s what so-called Super Wild Card weekend will give us — and it will...

Getty Images Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis says no decisions have been made about Drew Brees‘ future, but if Brees wants to return, the Saints want him. Loomis said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that Brees can be the Saints’ starting quarterback in 2021 or he can choose to ride off into the...

Getty Images The Associated Press revealed the 2020 NFL All-Pro team on Friday and it included a pair of unanimous selections. Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald were both named by all 50 voters. The full voting totals have now been released and the choices at...

Getty Images Linebacker Roquan Smith didn’t practice at all this week, but the Bears aren’t ruling him out of Sunday’s game in New Orleans. Smith has been listed as questionable to play due to the elbow injury that knocked him out of the team’s Week 17 game. The lack of practice time would...

Getty Images The Saints will be without their sack leader against the Bears on Sunday. Defensive end Trey Hendrickson has been ruled out of the game. Hendrickson has a neck injury and went from limited participation on Wednesday to being out of practice Thursday. He remained on the sideline...

Getty Images The Saints will have C.J. Gardner-Johnson back to play the Bears, as the safety was activated off the reserve/COVID-19 list on Friday. Gardner-Johnson went on the list on Dec. 30, missing New Orleans’ Week 17 victory over Carolina. In his second season out of Florida...

Getty Images The 8-8 Bears will face the 13-3 Saints on Sunday for a wild-card matchup few expect Chicago to win. Khalil Mack seems to be taking that to heart. “Me personally, I always feel like an underdog,” Mack said at his Thursday press conference. “It’s just in me. I know these guys do...

Getty Images Saints running back Alvin Kamara remains on the COVID-19 reserve list. The Saints placed him on the list last Friday after he tested positive for the coronavirus. Kamara, though, is eligible to return to the active roster before Sunday’s wild-card game against the Bears, but only...

Getty Images Speculation about Saints quarterback Drew Brees‘ future has been a constant for the last few seasons and it’s ramped up a bit this year after the rib and lung injuries that caused him to miss four regular season games. Brees had a bit of fun with that at his Thursday press...

Getty Images I know it’s officially now the “Super Wild Card” playoffs. Other than to make that point, I won’t call it that. (I prefer “Super Duper.”) But what I will do, along with MDS, is make picks for the six games to be played this weekend. Before that, we need to wrap up some loose ends...

Getty Images While the MVP award has become a quarterback award, the Offensive Player of the Year has become the best running back or receiver of the year. Titans running back Derrick Henry clearly was that player this year. He iced PFT’s award in the Week 17 game against the Texans with 34...