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This photo from the NBA site tonight is fantastic.

Reports are coming out that LSU boosters had secured pledges for all ~$10M of year one of Brian Kelly’s buyout by Saturday night after the game.  

On 10/21/2025 at 9:59 AM, Old Style said:

We can only hope. 

They’re chanting Kelly sucks in Tiger Stadium.  Fantastic.

35 minutes ago, Andy said:

This board (and most of the country) will hate it but we are tracking towards a whole bunch of 10-2/9-3 SEC teams who will think they should be in the playoff

It's a bad year to be, from a purely hypothetical perspective, a 10-2 team from outside the main conferences that every metric says is really good but won't have the resume to back it up

And LSU won’t be in the conversation.  About to get their third loss with @Bama and @Oklahoma still left.  

On 10/19/2025 at 11:17 PM, Old Style said:

Hopefully A&M can give those people more ammo to fire at BK. And for the record, I always thought he was a bad fit there. 

I see at least two more losses for LSU.  That contract is going to be Jimbo-like to escape from.

Bold prediction:  the boo birds will be out Friday night in Baton Rouge.  I’m hearing a lot of “never did like Brian Kelly” since yesterday’s game.

Don’t worry guys.  While the Saints are terrible, they inevitably make a run and are actually pretty decent against the spread.  It’ll come up short though.

4 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Nice to see the Bears with a legit running game

Saints have made every RB look like Walter Payton.

11 minutes ago, cl smooth said:

are the saints that bad or are the field conditions that bad? or is it a combination of both?

Saints are every bit as bad as their record.  

Anyone able to tell me how bad Northwestern is this year?  I want to be encouraged by Tulane’s performance.

2 minutes ago, JD94 said:

I want more 100% but I’m not going to be all that mad if we don’t empty the farm for guys that may or may not be all that worth it. Even the top end starters available aren’t exactly aces. Good pitchers? Absolutely. #1’s that are shut down? Nah 

Don’t disagree, but my issue is that this would be a complete contradiction to the Tucker/Cam deal.  Are you going for it or not?

13 hours ago, CubUgly said:

13 hours ago, CubUgly said:

KB from 2015-2017 was one of the top 3 players in baseball.  Injuries started happening, and the beaning happened, and I honestly think he lost his love for the game.  I love the memories, but the Cubs made the right move, hell the Giants pretty much came to the same conclusion and both were right.   Pains me to say honestly but it's pretty obvious.

I remember a national baseball writer (Gammons?) saying circa 2019 that one of his wishes for the upcoming season was that KB would love playing baseball again.

6 hours ago, kevinorie said:

Lance Dickson is the answer.

I was at the game where he hurt his elbow.  His debut I think?

9 minutes ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

no, they likely wont, which is why it doesnt make sense to me. The locker room distraction hardly feels like a reason to trade him for bathwater, even if its lots of bathwater

 

This sounds very much like the Saints basically giving away CJ Gardner-Johnson to the Eagles a few years ago.  

3 hours ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

Cousins

I’m pushing Carr to the Jets strictly for selfish reasons.

1 hour ago, Hot Sauce said:

Brady, Manning, Mahomes, Rodgers, Allen…

Brees, number six. 

I’m clearly a Homer, but putting Allen over Brees is madness.  I’d argue Rodgers as well but that’s at least an argument.

5 hours ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

Jets should trade for Cousins

Jets should trade for Carr.

8 hours ago, jumbo said:

Isn't Loomis more of a President Type in actual role? He also manages the Pelicans - is that right? I thought he was the GM for another pro team. 

My point is he must be steering the ship but delegating traditional GM responsibilities to Player Personnel types, etc. No way he is doing it all for both teams the way a ordinary GM would

Is this crazy talk? 

He’s been more of a President type for both the Pels and the Saints, but he’s also the one who sets the culture and direction of the org.  He’s STILL saying the Saints are “very close” to contending.  I can understand why an Aaron Glenn or Joe Brady wouldn’t want to take this job. 
 

Also, maybe not his fault, the both the Pels and the Saints have had historically bad injury issues for years.  Everything about the FO seems like they’re stuck in the past.

4 hours ago, jumbo said:

Brady has opted out of the Saints job. Gonna do the Ben Johnson thing and make everyone want him more next year. I guess that's easy to do when the QB is Josh Allen. 

Come on down, McCarthy? 

McCarthy or maybe Kellen Moore, I’m guessing.  
 

The biggest issue with the Saints job is not the cap, which should be right sized a year from now.  It’s that Mickey Loomis is entrenched as GM.  If ever a team needed to rip off the band-aid and start over with new leadership, it in NO.  Gayle Benson is loyal to a fault. 

5 hours ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

New Orleans or ESPN

Local writers seem to think the Saints are getting McCarthy or Joe Brady.

Fun fact, Jordan Wicks is my dad’s next door neighbor.  
 

Carry on.

Just now, WrigleyField 22 said:

The cap number is kind of meaningless though.  They do have a legit tough cap situation, and what was an old roster 3 years ago is like ancient now, yea.

The cap situation was fine when you’re going for a run every year.  When you suck, you’re that far underwater and all your worst contracts are over 35 years old, it’s a problem.

13 minutes ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

They have more talent on the roster, but Jets are such a dumpster fire org.

Saints have an old roster with one Pro Bowler (special teams player) and are $80M plus over the cap.  Great, patient ownership is the only draw.

5 hours ago, jumbo said:

Dennis Allen selection has been praised by several NFL media types on Twitter. 

I do love the idea that DA would be head coach/defense while Johnson can be head coach/offense. 

Also word that Rizzi will come from NO to be ST Coach. 

Fraley possibly coming from Detroit as OL Coach or maybe have to elevate him to OC 

Sean Payton

Dennis Allen

Dan Campbell

Ben Johnson

Aaron Glenn

Darren Rizzi

Joe Brady

The Saints sure have churned out a ton of excellent coaches to have a bare cupboard here.

21 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Is Dennis Allen regarded as a pretty good DC?

DA is an awful head coach, but one of the best defensive coordinators in the league. He’s been patching together a geriatric unit for years into a serviceable defense.  Lots of straight man press coverage, behemoth D lineman.