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Packers clinch playoff berth with 1st shutout in NFL this season, 34-0 over Saints

Dec. 24, 2024 00:41 AM EST

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — With a dominant defense leading the way, the Green Bay Packers clinched a playoff berth by producing their most lopsided win in a decade. Josh Jacobs gained 107 yards from scrimmage and scored a touchdown for a sixth straight game as the Packers recorded the...

Saints rookie QB Spencer Rattler has frustrating night in shutout loss to Packers

Dec. 24, 2024 00:33 AM EST

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Without many weapons around him, New Orleans Saints rookie quarterback Spencer Rattler couldn’t capitalize on his opportunity for a nationally televised showcase. One week after leading four straight scoring drives in a 20-19 loss to the Washington...

Saints say Taysom Hill 'likely' has a season-ending knee injury

Dec. 02, 2024 21:36 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans tight end Taysom Hill is likely to miss the rest of the season after injuring his left knee in the Saints' loss to the Los Angeles Rams. “It looks like an ACL tear,” interim coach Darren Rizzi said Monday. “He’ll probably get a second...

Saints lose Taysom Hill for the final minutes of a loss to the Rams -- and perhaps longer

Dec. 01, 2024 22:12 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Do-it-all Saints tight end Taysom Hill converted a key fourth down with another physical run on a direct snap — and that was his last play of the afternoon. Coming off a career-best performance against Cleveland in New Orleans' previous game, Hill was carted...

Matthew Stafford and Kyren Williams help the Rams grind out a 21-14 victory over the Saints

Dec. 01, 2024 21:21 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kryen Williams and the Los Angeles Rams strode to the locker room at halftime confident that the zero they had on the scoreboard was no indication of how the final 30 minutes would go. “We knew the second half was going to be ours,” said Williams, who rushed...

Resurgent and rested Saints seek a third straight victory when they host the Rams

Nov. 27, 2024 19:15 PM EST

Los Angeles Rams (5-6) at New Orleans (4-7) Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EST, Fox. BetMGM NFL odds: Rams by 2½. Against the spread: Los Angeles 4-7; New Orleans 5-6. Series record: Rams lead 44-35. Last meeting: Rams beat the Saints...

Saints interim coach Darren Rizzi is seeing his emphasis on closing out games paying off

Nov. 18, 2024 19:14 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Saints interim coach Darren Rizzi jokes that he's started to resemble the cartoon character “Bob the Builder” during team meetings. That's because in the two weeks since taking over as interim coach, he's been using construction equipment — shovels, hard...

Ex-Saints QB Jameis Winston returns to New Orleans with the Browns

Nov. 15, 2024 15:07 PM EST

Cleveland (2-7) at New Orleans (3-7) Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, Fox. BetMGM NFL Odds: Saints by 1. Against the spread: Browns 3-6; Saints 4-6. Series record: Browns lead 13-6. Last meeting: Saints won 17-10 at Cleveland on Dec. 24,...

Saints searching for remedies as they try to avoid their worst skid since 2005

Oct. 18, 2024 19:17 PM EDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Decades have passed since New Orleans Saints home games were associated with vast expanses of empty seats in a gloomy Superdome, interspersed with humiliated fans wearing brown paper bags over their heads. At the rate things are going, those days could return...

Which teams will show up when the Falcons meet the Saints in an NFC South showdown?

Sep. 27, 2024 16:33 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — The New Orleans Saints looked dominant the first two weeks of the season. Then, a jarring dose of reality. As for the Atlanta Falcons, they're still trying to establish an identity. The NFC South rivals meet Sunday at Mercedes-Benz...