Nick Easton realizes he’s in the best possible situation as a member of the New Orleans Saints.

Coach Sean Payton knew emotions were raw in the Saints’ dressing room after Sunday’s controversial loss to the Los Angeles Rams.

When it came to overtime of the NFC Championship Game, it was a defensive play that made the difference in the Rams’ 26-23 victory against the Saints.

Former NFL director of officiating Dean Blandino is part of an extremely large group of observers that believes the officials blew it with their non-call in the NFC Championship Game between the Saints and Rams.

Dante Fowler Jr., remembers the Los Angeles Rams’ 45-35 loss at New Orleans on Nov. 4 for two major reasons.

Sean Payton took the ultimate bottom-line approach in providing motivation to his New Orleans Saints players last Monday, as they began preparing for Sunday’s divisional-round playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

When a backup quarterback becomes MVP of the Super Bowl, that makes him anything but a typical understudy at the position. For Nick Foles, however, it goes even deeper.

As a rookie tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Goedert is seeing the qualities that allowed quarterback Nick Foles to become one of the greatest stories in sports.

Cam Jordan can’t help but marvel at what he has the pleasure of watching in each practice with the New Orleans Saints. And as a defensive end, he takes even greater pleasure in the fact the quarterback on the other side of the ball, Drew Brees, is his teammate.

The circumstances might have been drastically different, with last January’s clash between the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings a divisional-round playoff game at U.S. Bank Stadium and Sunday night’s rematch on the same field for the eighth game of the regular season. Still, Saints players who were part of the postseason matchup had vivid memories — more like nightmares — about how it ended: with the Vikings connecting on a 61-yard, last-ditch touchdown pass on the game’s final play to win, 29-24.

Ben Watson’s catch of a 1-yard touchdown pass from Drew Brees Sunday was vital to the New Orleans Saints’ 24-23 victory against the Baltimore Ravens. It also was part of an NFL milestone, because it was Brees’ 500th career TD throw. Watson was grateful that he was target for such an unforgettable moment.

With 11 games decided by a touchdown or less, the opening weekend of the NFL regular season was everything we hoped it would be.

Coming off a 7-9 season in 2015, the New Orleans Saints are looking to push the pace on both offense and defense.

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