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Getty Images Veteran NFL linebacker Gerald Hodges won’t return for another season. Hodges announced his retirement via Twitter on Friday. He spent six seasons in the NFL. Hodges entered the league as a fourth-round pick of the Vikings in 2013 and appeared in 29 games for the team before being...

The Saints will be spectators this year during the first round of the draft. And even though they got just 4.5 sacks out of defensive end Marcus Davenport last season, they don’t regret the aggressive move to go get him. The Saints traded last year’s first-rounder (27th overall), this year’s...

Getty Images The folks in Las Vegas have issued projected win totals for all 32 teams. On Monday, Simms and I drafted the teams most likely to exceed the projections. On Tuesday, we flipped it around. Which teams are most likely to fail to make it to their projected victory count? The segment...

Getty Images Linebacker Hau’oli Kikaha’s NFL career got off to a promising start as the 2015 second-round pick made 10 starts for the Saints during his rookie season. Kikaha had 52 tackles, four sacks and four forced fumbles that year, but he missed all of 2016 after tearing his ACL for the...

Getty Images The Saints announced they re-signed cornerback P.J. Williams to a one-year contract. The deal is worth $5 million, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. New Orleans selected Williams in the third round of the 2015 draft. He has appeared in 33 games with 14 starts, making 106 tackles...

Getty Images More than seven years ago, the relationship between Commissioner Roger Goodell and Saints coach Sean Payton became permanently fractured by a bounty scandal that resulted in the imposition of an unwarranted one-year suspension on Payton. Ten weeks ago, Goodell and Payton dusted off...

Getty Images The manslaughter conviction of Cardell Hayes in the shooting death of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith was upheld by a Louisiana appeals court on Wednesday. According to Emily Lane of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the three judge panel from the 4th District Court of...

Getty Images Saints coach Sean Payton spent a lot of time talking about officiating at this week’s league meetings, but that wasn’t the only topic of conversation he engaged in during his time with reporters. Payton also discussed the change to the team’s backfield that took place. Mark Ingram...

Getty Images The push for an expansion of replay review to include pass interference calls and non-calls took off after Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman‘s hit on Saints wide receiver Tommylee Lewis in the NFC Championship Game. That push paid off in a one-year trial that will allow...

Getty Images New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton thinks NFL teams are making a mistake if they’re only focusing on hiring the next trendy offensive mind as head coach. In an interview with the NFL Network, Payton said he concerned about several aspects of the recent head coach hiring...

Getty Images There was a report earlier this month that the Saints are interested in bringing wide receiver Dez Bryant back to New Orleans after his short 2018 stint with the team ended with a torn Achilles in his second practice. The Saints have not signed or traded for any wideouts so far...

Getty Images There was a moment when Jared Cook might have still been available to the Patriots. That moment seems to have passed. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Saints’ contract with the free agent tight end will be signed today. Via Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans...

Getty Images Last year tight end Jared Cook led the Raiders in catches, receiving yards and touchdowns. This year Cook will be in New Orleans. Raiders coach Jon Gruden is not happy about that, calling the loss of Cook “sickening.” “That’s a lot of production to replace,” Gruden said, via...

Getty Images The NFL finally has done the right thing. Pass interference will now be among the plays subject to replay review. It will apply both to offensive and defensive interference. And it will apply to calls and non-calls. Coaches will be permitted to challenge calls and non-calls of...

Getty Images Not only did the NFL change rules in a significant way, they did it in a hurry. Competition committee chairman Rich McKay said he was happy the league got to a “good place” with the change to the replay rules, especially considering the pace of the change. “We were able to make...

Sean Payton could have performed a victory dance after NFL owners voted to expand replay Tuesday night. He didn’t. Or at least not in his post-vote interviews. “I think it’s more about the football element [than a personal victory],” said Payton, a member of the Competition Committee...

Getty Images Coach Sean Payton and General Manager Mickey Loomis won’t be in New Orleans, but Robert Quinn will. The Dolphins defensive end is visiting the Saints on Monday, Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. Quinn, who is on the trade block, visited the Cowboys last week...

Getty Images Free agent tight end Jared Cook chose the Saints over the Patriots in part because he wanted to be the top tight end on any offense he played in, and at the time he picked the Saints, Rob Gronkowski had not yet retired. But Gronk announced his retirement on Sunday and Cook hasn’t...

Getty Images Mickey Loomis is back to just being the General Manager of a football team, which is handy since all of his pertinent work experience is in football. According to Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Saints owner Gayle Benson said that she was going to hire a new G.M...

Getty Images Dolphins defensive end Robert Quinn is in New Orleans today after previously visiting the Cowboys. Dolphins General Manager Chris Grier said Monday that “a couple of other teams have called and inquired about him recently.” There is no doubt the Dolphins want to trade Quinn. But...