The science of picking an NFL player, we know, is so inexact it isn’t even funny. Marques Colston almost was the last player drafted in 2006, and JaMarcus Russell was the first overall pick in 2007 and if that isn’t a pretty fair representation of how unpredictable player assessment can be, nothing is.
Specifically, though, it seems to be volatile when it comes to finding quarterbacks, which Russell is. Which brings us to the New Orleans Saints.
Yes, New Orleans already has the best one in the business – Drew Brees – calling plays and winning a Super Bowl. The continuing quest, though, is to find the next Brees or, at least, finding and developing a guy for the future who’s capable of winning games if and when Brees is injured, or no longer effective.
Rookie cornerback Patrick Robinson said he hadn’t heard much about New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams’ reputation as a fiery leader – but it didn’t take long for him to figure it out.
“When I first got here, I got to hear his personality. Now I know who he is,” said Robinson, the Saints’ first-round draft pick out of Florida State. “He was hard on me right away, just like my old coach (Florida State defensive coordinator) Mickey Andrews. So I’m used to it.”
New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper probably won’t be fully practicing until training camp as he recovers from offseason knee surgery, Coach Sean Payton said Saturday.
Payton didn’t give an exact description of the surgery that was performed on Sharper’s left knee at the beginning of March. But the coach’s explanation goes along with what we’ve been hearing – that it was an arthroscopic clean-up procedure that included some microfracture techniques.
Minneapolis — A Minnesota judge has sided with the NFL in a lawsuit by Minnesota Vikings Kevin Williams and Pat Williams challenging their four-game suspensions for violating the NFL’s anti-doping policy.
The NFL first attempted to suspend the defensive tackles in December 2008 after they tested positive for a banned diuretic that was in the StarCaps weight-loss supplement they were taking. The players argued that the NFL broke state labor law when it applied its drug policy.
Hennepin County District Judge Gary Larson said Thursday that the players weren’t harmed by the NFL’s violation of a state law.
The decision doesn’t necessarily clear the way for the NFL to suspend the players. The judge will hold a hearing Thursday afternoon on whether to grant a temporary injunction pending an appeal.
Stay tuned for how this will affect the New Orleans Saints players involved in this.
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Moving with a speed commended by their fans, the New Orleans Saints said Wednesday they have now offered relocation ticket packages to all the members of “the missing 1,200, ” a group displaced by the new press box in the Superdome.
The New Orleans Saints have agreed to a seven-year, $56.7 million extension with All-Pro guard Jahri Evans, according to a league source — the richest deal for an interior offensive lineman in NFL history.
Not bad for a former fourth-round draft pick out of Division II Bloomsburg.
Evans, 26, has steadily earned a reputation as the best young guard in the league over his four-year career, during which he has started every game since Week 1 of his rookie season.
A Minnesota judge is expected to announce the latest decision in the long-debated StarCaps case Thursday, according to the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Judge Gary Larson is expected to release his written ruling on the state lawsuit filed against the NFL by suspended Minnesota Vikings players Pat Williams and Kevin Williams.
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