According to Mike Triplett of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Saints interim head coach Joe Vitt indicated today that they’ll probably have to take running back Mark Ingram along slowly at the start of training camp and that he should be ready to go by week one of the regular season. Ingram underwent offseason athroscopic knee surgery, in order [...]
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Drew Brees likely won’t get a new deal before the Saints begin OTA’s
According to Mike Triplett of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the chances of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees signing a new deal before they begin their OTA’s on May 22nd are “practically zero.” Triplett believes that both sides may wait until the final hour of July 16th, which is the final day franchised players can [...]
READ MORE »Drew Brees fires back at Saints rookie
After New Orleans Saints fifth round pick, cornerback Corey White was asked about joining the Saints, he didn’t seem like he was really intimidated by quarterback Drew Brees. “It’s going to be fun picking off some balls from Drew Brees,” White told The Times-Picayune. “It is going to be real fun.” “I am real confident in [...]
READ MORE »Clint’s fantasy football preview: Quarterbacks
Well, folks, it’s that time of the year when number-crunching, stat-obsessed football enthusiasts get their geek on and try to forecast the fantasy successes and flops for the 2012 NFL season. Here is my projected list of the top 25 quarterbacks for this coming season, according to standard fantasy league scoring. In parenthesis next to [...]
READ MORE »Saints, Drew Brees not working on an extension
According to Steve Wyche of NFL.com, there haven’t been any conversations between the New Orleans Saints and quarterback Drew Brees regarding a long-term contract. About a month ago, Saints owner Tom Benson let his fan base know they’ll get an extension done soon. But so far things have clearly stalled with Brees and his representatives. [...]
READ MORE »Anthony Hargrove is “disappointed” the document he signed was leaked
Former New Orleans Saints defensive tackle Anthony Hargrove signed a declaration stating that both former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and linebackers coach Joe Vitt told him to deny any existence of a bounty program. Hargrove is upset that the declaration that he signed was somehow leaked and he believes the NFL has “grossly mischaracterized” his [...]
READ MORE »Domonique Foxworth blasts the NFL over Bountygate in new Op Ed piece
Domonique Foxworth, former Baltimore Ravens cornerback and current president of the NFL Players Association wrote an Op Ed piece in the USA Today yesterday criticizing the NFL’s depiction of the NFLPA’s stance on the Bountygate situation and demanding to see actual evidence of player participation in the Bountygate scandal. ”There are people willingly misleading the [...]
READ MORE »Larry Fitzgerald: Saints players needed to be suspended
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald made a guest appearance on Rich Eisen’s Podcast and claimed that the players involved in the News Orleans Saints bounty scandal aren’t ”bad men,” but they needed to be suspended. “I think it’s unfortunate … that authority figures in the league implemented such a thing,” said Fitzgerald. “I think Roger [...]
READ MORE »Report: Gregg Williams never admitted a bounty program was in place
According to Mike Triplett of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a source told him that the NFL has misrepresented what former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams said in his interviews with the league. Triplett’s source told him that Williams never admitted that a “bounty program” was actually instituted and that the NFL “rephrased his [...]
READ MORE »Lance Briggs calls suspension of Vilma “a bunch of BS”
On Saturday, David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune wrote an article about the discussion he had recently with Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs. Haugh and Briggs disagreed strongly about the appropriateness of Saints’ linebacker Jonathan Vilma’s year-long suspension for his role in the Bountygate scandal. Haugh challenged Briggs’ statement that Vilma’s suspension was, as he [...]
READ MORE »Report: Gregg Williams, Joe Vitt told Anthony Hargrove to lie about bounty program
According to Jason Cole of Yahoo Sports, former New Orleans Saints defensive end Anthony Hargrove claims in a sign declaration that both Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and linebackers coach Joe Vitt told him to deny any existence of a bounty program to NFL security when they interviewed him back in 2010. You can read [...]
READ MORE »Jonathan Vilma officially appeals his suspension
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has officially appealed his year-long suspension from the NFL for his involvement in the Saints bounty scandal. Vilma’s lawyers are seeking various types of documents in order to prove that Vilma was involved in the scandal. “The NFL has refused to provide a single [...]
READ MORE »NFL fires back at NFLPA over Bountygate
The NFL has issued a response to the NFLPA’s grievance over the suspension of four players involved in the Bountygate scandal. Here is the text of the response in full: “On May 2, Commissioner Goodell suspended four current or former New Orleans Saints players for conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in [...]
READ MORE »NFLPA files grievance over Bountygate suspensions
Earlier today, the NFLPA filed a grievance against Roger Goodell and the NFL regarding the suspensions of four players involved in the Bountygate scandal. The grievance states that owing to the new CBA (collective bargaining agreement) which was reached last year, the NFL does not have the authority to punish players for any conduct which [...]
READ MORE »Mark Ingram underwent knee surgery
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram under went arthroscopic knee surgery Thursday, which will keep him off the field for the next six weeks. What’s really alarming about Ingram’s knee condition is that this is his second knee scope in three seasons. He had one before his junior year at [...]
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