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Getty Images Word in March was that teams would hold off on signing free agent defensive end Ziggy Ansah until he had a check-up on his surgically repaired shoulder in April and that has proven to be correct. We’re closing in on the end of April and it appears at least one team is ready to...

Getty Images The Saints don’t have a lot of draft picks at their disposal this year, so General Manager Mickey Loomis faced questions about other things during Monday’s pre-draft press conference. One of those questions was on the status of contract negotiations with wide receiver Michael...

Getty Images The Saints got the short straw at the start of the season, with games out of the gates against the Texans on Monday night, at the Rams on a short week, at the Seahawks a week later, and at home against the Cowboys. G.M. Mickey Loomis has no problem with a challenging opening...

Getty Images Longtime NFL tight end Benjamin Watson might not be retiring after all. Watson, who indicated at the end of last season that it would be his last, is thinking he might play this year after all, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. A free agent who spent last season with the...

Getty Images A pair of 2018 playoff teams will square off in the first Monday night game of the 2019 season. The NFL’s schedule was released on Wednesday night and it shows that the Texans will be in New Orleans to face the Saints on Monday Night Football in Week One. In addition to that...

Getty Images The most controversial game of the postseason will have its rematch early in the regular season. The Saints are visiting Los Angeles to take on the Rams in Week Two, a 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff on FOX. That, of course, is the rematch of the NFC Championship Game, which ended in highly...

Getty Images The NFL wasn’t happy with how the Saints handled the post-NFC Championship Game controversy. The Saints can’t be happy with the NFL’s scheduling of the first quarter of their season. Strength of schedule never is determined until the end of the season. What happened last year...

Getty Images Plenty of teams spent plenty of time putting together excellent schedule-release videos. The Falcons’ excellent effort contains a not-so-subtle slap at the misfortune experienced in January by their biggest rival. In a segment that mimics the opening animation from HBO’s Game of...

Getty Images Now that we have the “when” to attach to the “who” and the “where,” the full slate of 256 regular-season games is known. Which games, then, are the best of those? Simms and I discussed the best options, via a PFT Live draft. Spoiler alert: I gave Simms the first pick, and he...

Getty Images Former Saints tight end Benjamin Watson was always one of the most socially active players in the NFL, and a two-time finalist for the league’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award. Now, the recently retired tight end is trying to help rebuild three Louisiana churches. Via Rod...

Getty Images Here’s something I didn’t know 15 minutes ago: Corporal punishment in schools remains legal in 19 states. Here’s something else I didn’t know: Kentucky had more than 400 incidents of corporal punishment during the most recent school year, up from the prior school year. I now know...

Getty Images The NFL is set to release the 2019 schedule soon and some players are giving thought to what they’d like to see on their plate this year. Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan is one of those players and he knows that he doesn’t want an NFC Championship Game rematch to open up the...

Getty Images Defensive tackle Tyeler Davison will visit the 49ers on Friday, Herbie Teope of NFL Media reports. Davison visited the Falcons earlier this week. He spent the past four years with the Saints after they made him a fifth-round pick in 2015. The Saints signed Malcom Brown and Mario...

Getty Images The rumors about Sean Payton eventually ending up in Dallas continue. It’s easy to connect the dots. Jason Garrett is in the final year of his contract with the Cowboys, who won’t extend him before the season. Payton is a former Cowboys assistant coach who has a good relationship...

Getty Images Saints coach Sean Payton loves joint practices, and the team again will work against the Chargers during the preseason. New Orleans practiced against the Chargers the past two preseasons and will again, Payton said Thursday. “Our plan would be to have joint practices with the...

Getty Images With the re-signing of Teddy Bridgewater last month, the New Orleans Saints managed to keep their collection of quarterbacks intact headed into the 2018 season. In an interview with flagship station WWL on Thursday evening, Saints head coach Sean Payton stressed his excitement at...

Getty Images Simms, as you know by now, works only four days per week. Which means that, on Friday, I’ve got to do PFTOT on my own. Today’s Simms-free effort is attached, with five different topics covered. First, there’s more on the Leonard Fournette arrest as it relates to his guaranteed...

Getty Images Arizona State wide receiver N’Keal Harry has gained a lot of notice this offseason. That also means he’s gaining lots hours in the air and meals on someone else’s tab. According to Tom Pellissero of NFL Network, Harry has a busy week of travel lined up, with a fairly wide range...

Getty Images Drew Brees has largely taken the high road regarding the blown no-call which cost the Saints a shot at the Super Bowl. But he couldn’t help getting a shot in. Via Josh Katzenstein of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Saints quarterback made his joke during a new commercial for...

Getty Images Defensive tackle Tyeler Davison has spent the last four years with the Saints, but he’s set to spend some time with another NFC South club. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Davison will visit with the Falcons. It’s the first reported visit of free agency for Davison...