Fleur-de-Links: January 27, 2012

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Drew Brees to guest on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' during Super Bowl week | NOLA.com
Appearance scheduled for Thursday (Feb. 2) on WDSU.

New Orleans Saints' Pro Bowl players take time to reflect on heartbreaking loss, look ahead to next season - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
"I don't have a ring," said Graham, who joined the Saints two months after they won their Super Bowl. "That's all I hear about every day, that's what we play for, the ring. That makes me even hungrier and just drives me that much more."

New Orleans Saints offensive line wins Madden award -- again
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees didn't throw for a new NFL single season passing yardage record, eclipsing Dan Marino's 1984 mark, with 5,476

Raiders finally announce the hiring of Dennis Allen | ProFootballTalk
Only the Raiders could make an announcement of a head coach feel oddly anticlimactic. Three days after it was widely reported that the team chose Broncos defensive coordinator Dennis Allen to be their next head coach, the Raiders confirmed the news Friday.

Chilly lands in Cleveland | ProFootballTalk
As of last night, former Vikings coach Brad Childress was close to landing a job with the Browns. And Childress now has. According to multiple reports, Chilly is the new offensive coordinator in Cleveland.

One expert looks back in dismay at his preseason NFL predictions - ESPN
Our man bravely goes where few dare to tread: He reprises his preseason NFL predictions and tries to count how many ways he was wrong.

Tampa Bay Bucs went the college coach route, hiring Rutgers' Greg Schiano - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
They first offered the job to Oregon's Chip Kelley

Cam Newton took a ton of snaps - NFC South Blog - ESPN
New Orleans’ Drew Brees ranked No. 10 in the league, taking part in 96.35 percent of the Saints’ snaps. Brees was pulled from a few games when the Saints were blowing teams out, although his departure might have come a bit later than the Atlanta Falcons would have liked in the game where Brees broke Dan Marino’s record for passing yardage in a season.

Around the NFC South - NFC South Blog - ESPN

Giants, Peyton Manning, Tom Coughlin: Answers to Readers' Questions - NYTimes.com
Is Spagnuolo for Greg Williams as defensive coordinator a good move by the Saints? I’m not familiar with Spagnuolo as a defensive coordinator; what does he bring to the table that the Saints need?

Linehan excited at the prospects of getting Best and Leshoure back
"I’d like to think we have our own personality," Linehan said. "Although, I wouldn’t be offended to be compared to the Saints because, obviously, they’re one of the most prolific offenses ever.

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