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Getty Images Emmanuel Sanders spent half a season with the 49ers last season, with Wes Welker as his position coach, and before that he played with Welker in Denver. Now Sanders is with the Saints and preparing to play the 49ers on Sunday, and he’s letting Welker know he’s ready for them. “I...

Getty Images On Sunday night, the Saints blasted Tampa Bay back to the days of the Yuccaneers, embarrassing the home team with a 38-3 beatdown. Coach Bruce Arians believes that his team will respond well to extreme adversity. “I think we have great leadership, and when you have really good...

Getty Images The worst-case scenario has become reality for 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman. Sherman, who has played in only one game this year, won’t return to the lineup for the team’s Week 10 game at New Orleans. He’ll be back in Week 12, for a rematch with the Rams. Coach Kyle Shanahan...

Getty Images Week 10 of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Colts and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images Saints quarterback Drew Brees again was limited in Friday’s practice, but he has no designation and will play Sunday against the 49ers. Brees’ right shoulder injury had him limited Wednesday and Thursday of last week before he had full participation last Friday. Brees played 60...

Getty Images Wide receiver Kendrick Bourne has gone on, come off and gone back on the reserve/COVID-19 list over the last 10 days and it appears he’ll be back off of it on Friday. During an appearance on KNBR, 49ers General Manager John Lynch said that Bourne has been cleared to travel with...

Getty Images The Saints listed quarterback Drew Brees and wide receiver Michael Thomas as limited participants in practice all of last week and it is looking like things will play out the same way this week. Brees and Thomas were listed as limited again on Thursday. Brees is listed with a...

Getty Images The San Francisco 49ers will be without running back Raheem Mostert for a little bit longer as he works back from a high-ankle sprain. Head coach Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday that Mostert won’t make it back to play for this weekend’s game against the New Orleans Saints. Instead...

Getty Images Drew Brees played 60 of 73 snaps Sunday after popping up on the injury report with a right shoulder injury last week. It didn’t seem to bother him in the 38-3 rout of the Bucs as he completed 26 of 32 passes for 222 yards and four touchdowns. But Brees remains on the practice...

Getty Images After the end of the 2019 season, Saints quarterback Drew Brees took some time before confirming that he’d be back for another year and there’s no sign that he’ll deviate from that approach when it comes to making any calls about the 2021 season. Brees has a contract for next...

Getty Images 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman returned to practice Monday. He doesn’t expect it to be long before he returns to action. Sherman told Matt Barrows of TheAthletic.com that he is “working hard to potentially return this weekend” against the Saints but added that the “worst-case...

Getty Images The Vikings in 2018 set a record that would be hard to break. The Buccaneers in 2020 found a way to break it. With only five rushing attempts in Sunday night’s blowout loss to the Saints, Tampa Bay established a new low-water mark for single-game runs. In September 2018, the...

Getty Images Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians continues to show that there are no sacred cows in Tampa Bay. There are no sacred GOATs, either. Although Arians hasn’t directly said quarterback Tom Brady played poorly on Sunday night, Arians has made several comments that point back to Brady as the...

Getty Images Lost in the stunning Tampa Bay blowout loss was the fact that Antonio Brown is back. He’s not all the way back. He caught only three passes for 31 yards on five targets, and he stopped on one route that resulted in an interception. But he was able, after playing only one game in...

Getty Images The NFL has gotten through nine weeks of the 2020 season with all games played that were supposed to be played. The league also has capped Week Nine with its biggest in-person crowd of the year. Via Sports Business Daily, Dallas had 31,700 present for Sunday’s 24-19 loss to the...

Getty Images It took eight games, but Saints quarterback Taysom Hill finally played on Sunday night like he did in the 2019 playoffs, when he was the best player on the field in an overtime loss to the Vikings. Hill completed two of two passes for 48 yards in New Orleans’ 38-3 blowout of the...

Getty Images The Saints are having fun with the fact that so many media members picked the Buccaneers to win last night’s game. The joke ultimately is on the Buccaneers, who were picked by most to win the game for very good reasons. The Buccaneers in recent weeks obliterated the Packers (who...

Getty Images Whether it was scotch or tequila or a little (or a lot) of both, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers surely enjoyed watching football on Sunday. After re-establishing their footing with a Thursday night win in Santa Clara, the Packers were able to witness three games that went their...

Getty Images Tom Brady brought the Patriots back from a 28-3 deficit in Super Bowl LI. He would have to do better than that tonight if the Buccaneers are to win. Drew Brees and the Saints are blowing out Brady and the Buccaneers, leading 28-0 with 8:45 remaining in the second quarter. Brady...

Getty Images Who saw this coming? The Saints are coasting to a blowout victory over the Buccaneers. With the Saints holding a 31-0 halftime lead, the only drama left is whether former Bucs starting quarterback Jameis Winston will play for New Orleans in mop-up duty. Drew Brees completed 18 of...