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Getty Images Tuesday’s rare public appearance from Browns chiefs strategy office Paul DePodesta has sparked renewed discussion about the role of analytics in football. The Browns claim that they use analytics no more than any other team; people with other teams who have gotten some exposure to...

Getty Images The number of Saints heading to the Pro Bowl keeps on rising. Seven players were initially selected to the team and last week saw left guard Andrus Peat and tight end Jared Cook added to the roster as injury replacements. Right guard Larry Warford is the latest addition to the...

Getty Images Saints fullback Zach Line is calling it a career after seven seasons. Line, 29, announced his retirement on Instagram. “As I look back on the last seven seasons in the NFL I cannot help but to feel extremely proud,” Line wrote. “I have never bragged about my accomplishments, but...

Getty Images Few football players have played at a high level beyond their 40th birthdays. Two currently are. Tom Brady just concluded a season at the age of 42. As of today, Drew Brees is 41. Brees had one of the best seasons of his career in 2019, despite missing five games with a thumb...

Getty Images The Ravens were the top seed in the AFC playoffs this season and they came into January with designs on making a run to Miami for Super Bowl LIV, but the Titans had other ideas. Instead of Miami, the Ravens coaching staff will be headed to a different game in Florida. The team...

Getty Images With four teams remaining in contention to win Super Bowl LIV, the Chiefs are the favorites. And with 32 teams in contention to win Super Bowl LV, the Chiefs are the favorites to win next year, too. The current odds at Caesars Sportsbook have the Chiefs as 11-10 favorites to win...

Getty Images The football-following world is paying way too much attention to the future of Tom Brady, and not nearly enough to the future of Drew Brees. Brady has made it clear that he’ll play in 2020. Within the next two months, we’ll find out where. Brees has said nothing about whether...

Getty Images Yesterday was a crushing loss for the Texans, but at least they can comfort themselves with their future, and how they can use the 26th pick in the 2020 NFL Draft to make a good team better. Oh wait, they already traded that one to the Dolphins. Sorry guys, that was probably too...

Getty Images The Saints are no longer able to go to the Super Bowl, but they’re sending a lot of people to the Pro Bowl. The team announced today that tight end Jared Cook and guard Andrus Peat were heading to the Pro Bowl as alternates. Cook caught 43 passes for 705 yards and nine touchdowns...

Getty Images The Saints will see the $13.5 million in dead money that the Patriots will carry for Tom Brady in 2020 and raise it by $7.8 million. Tom Curran’s story of the dead money attached to Tom Brady’s soon-to-be-voiding contract conjured memories of the cap mess to be created by Drew...

Getty Images Minnesota Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph thought he was participating in a good deed from the locker room of the Superdome when someone identifying as a reporter asked for his game-winning gloves as an item to benefit charity. Instead, the gloves were promptly taken to eBay and...

Getty Images The Saints claimed cornerback Janoris Jenkins off of waivers when he was waived by the Giants in December, which means they picked up his existing contract for the final two games of the regular season. They also picked up the option of bringing Jenkins back for the 2020 season on...

Getty Images During the season, the NFL announces various categories of player of the week. In the postseason, not. But #PFTPM still does. The Tuesday version of the afternoon podcast includes the players of the week for the wild-card round. MDS selected Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson. I...

Getty Images Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph caught the game-winning touchdown pass in Sunday’s playoff win for the Saints, so the gloves he wore in the game are a valuable piece of sports memorabilia. Rudolph could have kept the gloves for the sentimental value, or he could have sold them to...

Getty Images Saints quarterback Drew Brees wasn’t interested in talking about his plans for 2020 after last Sunday’s loss to the Vikings, but it remains a topic of great interest in New Orleans. Brees is not under contract for 2020, which leaves a couple of decisions to make. One is whether he...

Getty Images After the Chiefs lost the AFC Championship in overtime, the Chiefs proposed a rule that would allow the team that kicks off to start the extra session a chance to match a first-possession touchdown. It wasn’t passed. It still needs to be, as evidenced by Sunday’s first-possession...

Getty Images Saints linebacker Kiko Alonso wasn’t able to finish yesterday’s loss to the Vikings, and he has a good idea of what’s ahead of him this offseason. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, Alonso suffered a torn ACL during the wild card loss. Alonso also missed the entire 2014...

Getty Images When Tom Brady took the field on Saturday against the Titans, he became just the second quarterback in NFL history to play a postseason game after turning 42. Brady was already the second-oldest quarterback to play in the playoffs, an accomplishment he reached last year. (Only...

Getty Images Mike McCarthy has made his first hire. Saints linebackers coach Mike Nolan will become the Cowboys new defensive coordinator, NFL Media reports. Nolan and McCarthy have a long relationship, with Nolan having hired McCarthy as the 49ers’ offensive coordinator in 2005. McCarthy...

Getty Images The game ultimately wasn’t as exciting as it could have been, given the early exit of Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz with a concussion. Still, the wild-card game between Seattle and Philadelphia, broadcast by NBC, generated the largest audience of any TV show since Super Bowl...