No, even though I am a big fan of Drew Brees (Boiler Up!), I am not lobbying for the Bengals to try to sign him. Even if it takes putting the franchise tag on Brees next Monday, New Orleans will not let him get away. But WhoDey fans should be hoping that contract talks between [...]

I know, I'm with you. The NFL draft just isn't going to be as exciting this year without a 1st round pick. That is, unless the Saints trade again to get back into it. I doubt that will happen but I wouldn't completely rule it out either. Below is the order of the 1st round, a round the Saints will currently not select in. I've also included the Saints' picks below...

"I don't know how to say it," he says. "It wasn't picking one team over the other. I was blessed to have a few opportunities. When it was all said and done, coming to New Orleans seemed like the right thing to do. I didn't make a ledger and compare head coaches and quarterbacks. I just felt like for my wife, Maria, and I, at this moment in time, New Orleans...

While the New Orleans Saints had a very productive 2011 campaign, winning the NFC South and finishing second overall in the NFC with a 13-3 record, their failure to make it past the divisional round has left many fans saying ‘what if.’ As in ‘what if our pass defense had not been among the worst in the league?’ It’s safe to assume that Saints management...

We’ve already relayed to you how San Diego WR Vincent Jackson is likely to hit the free agent market. Now there’s another from the star-studded group of free agent wideouts that might be available come March 13th. According to the National Football Post, New Orleans’ Marques Colston could become a free agent by the mid-March mark as the Saints have a couple of other...

Potential free agent Jermichael Finley of the Green Bay Packers has had sporadic contact with the team since the end of the season and remains hopeful that a long-term deal will get done before the team must decide whether to use the franchise tag on him. With a complete revolution of the tight end position sparked by Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots and Jimmy Graham of...

As we get closer to the startof free agency, it looks like wide receiver Marques Colston may not be back with the New Orleans Saints next season. At this point the Saints haven’t even made any attempts to try and work out an extension with Colston, according to Dan Pompei of the National Football Post. In the end, it looks like the Saints will have to decide between signing either...

It’s possible Marques Colston will be a former Saint in the near future as the team has made no attempts to re-sign the star wide receiver up to this point. The front office has been pre-occupied with trying to work out a new deal for Drew Brees. If the Saints can’t sign Brees, they likely will use the franchise tag on him, giving them one less way to retain Colston. Also complicating...

The Saints have a lot of big-name, big-time talents scheduled for free agency. Will their style of offense dictate how they prioritize them?

A Michigan man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge he phoned in a bomb threat to the Superdome during the New Orleans Saints' playoff win over the Detroit Lions on Jan. 7. The charge brought Friday against 34-year-old Shawn H. Payton, of Jackson, Mich., carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The FBI arrested Payton last month...

A Michigan man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge he phoned in a bomb threat to the Superdome during the New Orleans Saints' playoff win over the Detroit Lions in January.

The New Orleans Saints do not have a first round pick in this year’s NFL Draft due to the team trading up to get Mark Ingram in last year’s NFL Draft. The Saint first pick will come in the 2nd round with the 59th pick. Although they have no first round pick they should still be able to find a quality player to draft with the 59th pick. Now the question is who the Saints draft...

Now that the NFL season is officially over the focus has shifted to the NFL Draft. The New Orleans Saints are still licking their wounds from their defeat at the hands of the San Francisco 49ers. Despite the disappointing end to the Saints season there is a lot to look forward to next season, particularly with the overhaul of the defensive coaching staff. The Saints probably do not...

I think we can all agree that the Saints need to re-sign Drew Brees, Marques Colston and Carl Nicks. All three of those players are key components to the historically supreme offense the Saints showcase and retaining them has to be of utmost importance. That said, for the second consecutive offseason, the biggest "upgrade" the Saints will have to seek is a playmaker on...

The Saints have miffed civic treasure Drew Brees with the pace of contract talks. Just franchise him, right? Maybe, but Larry Holder says coveted Carl Nicks and Marques Colston are also awaiting big bucks.

Drew Brees’s contract extension is taking longer than everyone had hoped and some have been wondering if the New Orleans Saints are going to franchise tag Brees. I do not think it would be in either party’s best interest if Brees were to be franchised. I think the Saints need to do everything possible to get a deal done for Brees as fast as they can so they do not have to use...

Head coach Sean Payton made the official announcement that the New Orleans Saints have added three new coaches to their coaching staff. The most notable of the coaching additions is the hiring of Steve Spagnuolo as defensive coordinator. In addition to the new defensive coordinator the Saints hired Ken Fajole as the secondary coach and Andre Curtis as assistant secondary coach. Spagnuolo...

With such a busy week last week we didn’t have time to get to this, but former NFL fullback Heath Evans, who spent four years in Seattle under Mike Holmgren before moving to New England to wind up his career playing for Bill Belichick, had some strong words for the current Browns president in Pro Football Weekly: Evans said he was “ready to retire” because of the...

And the #1 play of the season had to be this one. Brees breaking a record labelled "unbreakable" and untouchable for so long. While this season didn't have the final success of the 2009 season, this moment was the culmination of a truly special season that saw tons of passing yards, points and wins. This is just another historic moment in the remarkable tenure Drew...

Love him, hate him, or indifferent, Ricky is his own man.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee announced last Saturday that New Orleans Saints offensive tackle William Roaf was enshrined as part of the Hall of Fame’s Class of 2012, along with defensive end Chris Doleman, cornerback Jack Butler, running back Curtis Martin, defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy, and center Dermontti Dawson.  The class will be enshrined in Canton...

Ralph and I will go through every position for the Saints during this offseason as a sort of "no football" coping mechanism. Today we cover the receivers. How do you know we are officially in the darkness of a world without football? The Super Bowl is done and Ralph and Andrew Juge are about to talk Saints receivers for 40 minutes. If Marques Colston leaves can Lance...

In another move to plug a coaching staff hole, the New Orleans Saints announced Tuesday that Andre Curtis had been hired as the new assistant secondary coach. Curtis becomes the third new member of Coach Sean Payton's staff since the end of the 2011 season. Curtis joins the New Orleans staff after serving as defensive backs/safeties coach with the Rams from 2009-2011. Prior to...

The New Orleans Saints officially hired Steve Spagnuolo as their new defensive coordinator on Tuesday.

The Saints have made official the arrival of defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and secondary coach Ken Flajole, who was Spagnuolo’s defensive coordinator in St. Louis.  (Also joining the staff from the Rams is Andre Curtis, who’ll be the assistant secondary coach.) But the Saints still are looking for a new receivers coach, per a league…