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Getty Images For most episodes of #PFTPM, you have to listen to me babble on and on for like an hour. Frequently, you get to hear someone else. On Tuesday, you get to hear one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Saints quarterback Drew Brees joined the program for a conversation that...

Getty Images The Saints have found a useful role for third-string quarterback Taysom Hill. And Saints coach Sean Payton isn’t afraid of dreaming big, even if it means comparing him to a Hall of Famer. Via Nathan Brown of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Payton invoked the name of Hill’s fellow...

Getty Images The absence of starting quarterbacks has made the preseason increasingly irrelevant, but in the case of the Saints, the backup quarterback competition between Teddy Bridgewater and Taysom Hill has made the preseason worth watching. On Sunday, with Bridgewater battling an illness...

Getty Images Saints offensive tackle Chris Clark signed last week. He was carted off with an air cast on his right leg Sunday. Clark, 35, was injured with 1:14 left in the first half. He was attempting to block defensive linemen Jerry Tillery, who sacked Taysom Hill before rolling into the...

Fans who paid for tickets to Sunday afternoon’s game in Los Angeles probably were sick after watching mostly backups play. Philip Rivers and Drew Brees were among the stars who watched from the sideline. That left Teddy Bridgewater to start for the Saints. He nearly didn’t and probably...

Getty Images Teddy Bridgewater got the start at quarterback against his old team in the Saints’ first preseason game and he got the start against Drew Brees‘s old team on Sunday. Brees said during the week that joint practices with the Chargers were “more valuable” to him than a preseason game...

Getty Images Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown was outraged when the NFL told him he could no longer wear the helmet he’d been wearing his entire career. Saints quarterback Drew Brees was more mellow about it. Brees, whose longtime helmet model was disallowed this year as the league...

Getty Images A full 45 years after it was built, the Superdome keeps going. And the next renovation project for the home of the Saints keeps going forward. Via Anthony McAuley of NOLA.com, the Louisiana Bond Commission has authorized the sale of up to $350 million in bonds to fund a $450...

Getty Images The Saints signed linebacker Drew Lewis on Wednesday. The Texans originally signed Lewis as an undrafted rookie out of Colorado. Houston waived him last month, and he spent some time with the Colts after that. Lewis made 198 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss and five sacks in three...

Getty Images Good news, NFL: Commissioner Roger Goodell won’t have to testify in September. Bad news, NFL: Goodell may still have to testify. Via the Associated Press, the Louisiana Supreme Court has stayed the lawsuit arising from the Rams-Saints NFC Championship game while it considers...

Getty Images The Saints’ success with Taysom Hill, using him as a Swiss Army knife, has prompted several other teams to look for a third-string quarterback who can do more than carry a clipboard on game day. The Bengals are experimenting with Jeff Driskel at receiver. Driskel took snaps at...

Getty Images It wasn’t that long ago that people weren’t sure the Saints would still be in New Orleans at all. Now, they’re working on another 30 years. According to the Associated Press, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said the state was working on a lease extension which would keep the...

Getty Images The Saints made a couple of additions designed to bolster their blocking on Monday. The agents for veteran offensive tackle Chris Clark announced that their client has signed with New Orleans. Herbie Teope of NOLA.com spotted Clark at practice and reports that fullback Shane Smith...

Getty Images The Saints released wide receiver Rishard Matthews after he left training camp over the weekend and it doesn’t look like Matthews will be looking to catch on elsewhere. In a post to his Instagram account, Matthews wrote that he was walking away from the game. “It was cool being a...

Getty Images A former University of Minnesota tight end is back in the Twin Cities as a member of the Vikings. The Vikings announced the signing of Nate Wozniak on Sunday. Offensive lineman Tyler Catalina was waived in a corresponding move. While Wozniak played tight end for the Golden...

The Rishard Matthews era in New Orleans didn’t last long. Per Mike Triplett of ESPN.com, the Saints released the veteran wide receiver after he chose to leave camp, a day after playing in their first preseason game. “It’s not for everyone,” Payton said. The Saints signed Matthews in June. The...

Getty Images With backup quarterback Geno Smith having surgery on Friday to remove a cyst from his knee, the Seahawks added another quarterback to the roster on Saturday. Seattle signed former New Orleans Saints quarterback J.T. Barrett and added linebacker Juwon Young to their roster. To make...

Teddy Bridgewater had a chance to leave for Miami in the offseason. He chose to return for another season behind Drew Brees in New Orleans. With Brees sitting out the preseason opener Friday night, Bridgewater got a chance to start against the team that drafted him 32nd overall in 2014...

Getty Images Do night games still count as prime time when it’s summer and the days are longer? They may not, because Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins is looking very good early on against the Saints, despite his 5-13 record in late games in the regular season. The Vikings took a 7-0 lead on...

Getty Images The NFL hopes to secure a dismissal of the Rams-Saints NFC Championship lawsuit because (duh) it wants to win and (more importantly) it wants to shield Commissioner Roger Goodell and multiple game officials from answering tough questions under oath. The NFL, as a fallback...