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Photo breakdown of the New Orleans Saints 2011 schedule | NOLA.com
Game by game for this season
Filling out QB Power Rankings ballot - NFC South Blog - ESPN
Drew Brees, Matt Ryan and Josh Freeman will be on my ballot. I’m sure the rest of the voters will have Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in the top two slots. But I’m going to break from convention and put one of the NFC South guys in one of those two spots. Again, it’s pretty obvious I’m talking about Brees.
Three-game road trips not a favor - NFC South Blog - ESPN
The Saints get their stretch earlier, in Weeks 4 through 6. They go to Carolina, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay. Yeah, the Saints had a better record than all three of those teams last season and New Orleans should remain pretty strong.
Mocking NFC South with Todd McShay - NFC South Blog - ESPN
McShay has the Saints taking Illinois defensive tackle Corey Liuget at No. 24. Entirely possible and he could team with Sedrick Ellis and Shaun Rogers to suddenly give the Saints a very strong rotation in the middle of the line.
Wednesday At The Square This week
Saints Drafts Have Helped Mine Future Successes
NFL Draft: 10 best and worst of the New Orleans Saints -- No. 4 best pick | NOLA.com
Looking at all-time Saints picks, leading up to this year's draft
NFL plans Super start - New Orleans Saints - SunHerald.com
NEW ORLEANS -- The Saints have learned that if the 2011 regular season starts as scheduled, they’ll open with a Thursday night road game Sept. 8 against the defending champion Green Bay Packers.
NFL.com news: Super Bowl champion Packers, Saints to kick off 2011 season
The NFL announced Tuesday that it will ring in the 2011 season with a meeting between the last two Super Bowl champions in the Sept. 8 Kickoff game.
2011 NFL DRAFT:
Mocking NFC South with Todd McShay - NFC South Blog - ESPN
McShay has the Saints taking Illinois defensive tackle Corey Liuget at No. 24. Entirely possible and he could team with Sedrick Ellis and Shaun Rogers to suddenly give the Saints a very strong rotation in the middle of the line.
Southern California's Tyron Smith is rated a top tackle in the NFL draft | NOLA.com
Part 5 of 9-part series: Offensive line
NFL draft 2011: A closer look at the offensive linemen | NOLA.com
Florida's Mike Pouncey played two positions collegiately
AROUND THE LEAGUE:
NFLPA* gets a taste of the downside of decertification | ProFootballTalk
Last week, when we were arguing that all 32 owners should be at the mediation session in Minnesota, a league-leaning source responded by contending that, if all owners should attend mediation, all 1,900 players should be there, too, since they'll ultimately have to vote on any final offers.
Mediation breaks for nearly a month | ProFootballTalk
The good news is that mediation in the fight between the NFL and the players hasn't ended. The bad news is that it won't continue until the middle of May. Albert Breer of NFL Network reports that mediation has adjourned until the tentative date of May 16.
Week One schedule could be league office’s power play to end lockout | ProFootballTalk
Last night, we pointed out that a lockout that chews into the regular season would result in the loss of multiple significant games in Week One. That concept provided the meat for our official PFT Live take on the situation.
NFL will lose equity of schedule if weeks are lost to labor dispute - Don Banks - SI.com
Musings, observations and the occasional insight as we digest the NFL's just-released 256-game regular season schedule...
NFL, players wrap up mediation, may not meet again until May 16 - NFL - SI.com
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The NFL and its locked-out players wrapped up their fourth day of court-ordered talks Wednesday with few signs of progress and no plans to meet again until mid-May.