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By Brian Allee Walsh - Special to the Sun Herald

Do your job!

New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton says it to his players all the time.

In fact, team officials hung a ginormous photo in their indoor practice facility bearing those three little words and Payton’s larger-than-life mug in 2012 when he had to serve a season-long suspension for his alleged role in Bounty gate.

After three games, after an embarrassing 1-2 start, suffice it to say not enough players (other than running back Alvin Kamara) are doing their jobs well enough to make a difference.

Certainly not well enough to win the NFC — heck, maybe not even the NFC South — and play for a second Lombardi Trophy.

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By Christopher Dodson | Forbes

The gameplan is shaping up to score the New Orleans Saints a naming rights sponsor for the Superdome. The executive team has hired OVG Global Partnerships to lead the naming rights search just months after it was first reported that Mercedes-Benz would not be renewing as the Superdome’s title sponsor. The contract is for a 12-month term, with a hard deadline set to secure the deal before the 2021 NFL season. Dan Griffis, President of OVG Global Partnerships, will be visiting New Orleans this week to tour the world-renowned facility.

The New Orleans Saints will be guiding Griffis and his team through a Superdome in the middle of a $450 million renovation that will keep the home of the Sugar Bowl in the Super Bowl (2024) and Final Four (2022) rotation as well. Matt Webb, Saints Vice President/Corporate Partnerships, will lead the effort for the Saints.

Webb said, “The fact that the Superdome is in New Orleans plays a very positive role for any international prospects. The respect and affinity New Orleans has on the international stage as well as the major national and international interest the Superdome gets due to the events we host are pivotal when discussing with an international company. Our location also helps international brands break through the clutter that is seen in...

By Jordan Cohn | Radio.com

The role of offensive lineman is about as inglorious a position as there is on the football field, save for perhaps a fullback or a special teams ace. They're constantly in the trenches, paving the way for a flashier player to get all the glitz and glamour from fans and all the highlight-reel recognition from sports media.

So when offensive linemen do hog the spotlight, it's usually for a pretty significant reason. Week 3 proved to have a pair of those plays, one of which was much more obvious than the other. The more obvious of those two plays occurred on Monday night, when Chiefs tackle Eric Fisher hauled in a lob from Patrick Mahomes.

That was a can't-miss play, clearly. But while the other play wasn't as easy to spot, it may have been more impressive.

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By John Sigler | Saints Wire

Here’s a name known well to many New Orleans Saints fans: Jonathan Vilma. The Super Bowl XLIV-winning linebacker will be in the FOX Sports broadcast booth for Week 4’s road game against the Detroit Lions, his first brush with the Saints since leaving ESPN’s college football coverage team earlier this year.

Vilma has been working as a color analyst, paired with longtime play-by-play man Kenny Albert in the booth and Shannon Spake reporting from the sidelines. He was on hand to see his old rival Atlanta Falcons choke another big lead for a loss in Week 3 (this time to the Chicago Bears, after losing in similar fashion to the Dallas Cowboys a week earlier) but did a great job keeping his composure.

Now he’ll get something of a reunion with the Saints. Vilma joined Jonathan Stinchcomb and sideline reporter Meghan Payton to cover the 2019 Saints preseason games, so this is a role he’s used to playing. He’s also remained close with Saints coach Sean Payton and some of his old teammates in the locker room over the years, so he’s as clued-in as anyone else could hope to be.

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The New Orleans Saints (1-2) will look to bounce back after consecutive defeats this week when they travel to Ford Field for the first time since 2014 to face the Detroit Lions (1-2).

The Saints lost to the Green Bay Packers 37-30 on Sunday night. After defeating Tampa Bay in the season opener, New Orleans has dropped two straight close games and will set to reverse that trend this week.

New Orleans' Sunday night loss to the Packers featured seven lead changes. With the score tied at 27 at the start of the fourth quarter, the Saints had regained the ball near midfield on a big fourth and one-stop for no gain by S Malcolm Jenkins and CB Marshon Lattimore. However a fumble by QB Taysom Hill was forced and recovered by Green Bay LB Za'Darius Smith at the Packers' 43-yard line with K Mason Crosby eventually kicking a 49-yard field goal and the Saints behind for the remainder of the contest.

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By John Sigler | Saints Wire

That didn’t take long: just days after waiving backup offensive lineman Will Clapp, the New Orleans Saints re-signed him to their practice squad. The move was reported on the NFL daily transactions wire’s Tuesday update.

Bringing him back made sense even before an injury to left guard Andrus Peat in Sunday’s loss to the Green Bay Packers; Clapp is one of the more experienced reserves on the team, having made the roster outright as a rookie out of LSU back in 2018. He should be a candidate for single-game activation if Peat can’t play after going down with an ankle injury.

Clapp’s return brings the Saints back to full capacity on the 16-man practice squad, having previously reunited with cornerback Ken Crawley. Other recent additions include cornerback Grant Haley and defensive lineman Anthony Zettel, though seven practice squad spots are still filled by rookies.

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