New Orleans Saints fan Anthony Mackie wants Deshaun Watson for quarterback, he tells Desus & Mero
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Drew Brees says he hasn’t decided on retirement yet, despite Jay Glazer’s report that he’s played his last Superdome game
There's been smoke circling about Brees' retirement after this season for a while, which Glazer added to Sunday. But Brees said after the Saints' loss he hasn't made a decision yet.
Nickelodeon’s NFL Wild Card broadcast was fun, goofy, and needs to be done again
Football doesn't always have to be super-serious.
Unanimously picking the Bucs went very poorly for NBC, ESPN and NFL Network pregame shows
Three separate pregame shows all wound up with their analysts all picking the Bucs.
Right after NBC discussed the Bucs scoring on every goal-to-go situation this year, they failed to score on one
Tampa Bay was 22-for-22 in goal-to-go touchdowns, while New Orleans had allowed touchdowns in all 13 goal-to-go situations they had faced. Both of those stats changed after Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth discussed them.
Raiders safety Johnathan Abram has scary collision with TV cart on MNF
Maybe move that cart back?
CNN hires NFL veteran Malcolm Jenkins as national affairs contributor
Jenkins will appear on various CNN shows to provide commentary and analysis on matters of racism and social justice.
Nick Underhill leaves The Athletic to launch his own subscription site in New Orleans
"I want to work for you. This thing is called New Orleans Football. This site, these words, are in essence, yours."
Saints executives allegedly gave PR advice to the Archdiocese of New Orleans over abuse scandal
The emails are from team accounts, which may mean the NFL gets involved as well.
Fox’s Mike Pereira punts instead of providing analysis on controversial no-call in Vikings-Saints playoff game
"Mike, I'm gonna defer to you."
Darren Rovell says mental health language “certainly wasn’t in Kaepernick’s” waiver, but it was
The Kaepernick workout waiver had the player in question warranting that he "has no known mental, emotional, or physical disabilities, injuries, or issues," which definitely counts as mental health language.
Fox’s Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Mike Pereira blasted “killer mistake” by officials that wiped out a Saints’ TD
"Just a killer mistake that hurt the Saints so badly. When it's that close, you have to lead the fumble. You can always come back and kill it with incomplete. But even though they give the ball to the Saints here, and it gives them the ball, it doesn't correct the mistake that really should have resulted in a touchdown."
