To break down the new, Hill is getting $40M from the Saints to stay with the club catching passes and running the ball. If he is ever the QB then his deal balloons to almost $100M. If I were Taysom I’d focus on beating out Jameis Winston because the difference between 45 and 95M is staggering.

Here are the details:

New Orleans’ QB Taysom Hill signed a unique four-year, hybrid-type of a contract extension that could be worth anywhere between $40 million and $95 million, depending on the position he plays, and includes $22.5 million guaranteed, sources tell ESPN.

Taysom Hill’s hybrid deal is unique and unlike other contracts because it pays him a $40 million base salary for the role that he’s currently playing and up to an additional $55 million if he does become the Saints’ starting QB for the next four seasons.

Even if he never becomes the QB, getting $10 million a year to be a gadget player is great money, and the $22.5 million guaranteed is nothing to sneeze at.

Look below and tell us if you think this is pass interference:

Here are the details:

For $1,000 a week, Saints fans want to make Falcons fans relive the Super Bowl collapse with a billboard displaying the now infamous 28-3 third-quarter score near Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The New Orleans T-shirt company Dirty Coast has launched the campaign based off their (apparently) popular score designed shirt. From the campaign:

In New Orleans we take history seriously. So it goes without asking that we made note of the historic loss in last year’s Superbowl. So to commemorate that moment we would like to put up a billboard in Atlanta. Is it an epic act of trolling? Maybe. Is it hilarious? You bet.

If you want to help us pay for the billboard ($1,000 per week) then please donate $10. If we can collect enough we can keep the billboard up for months.

-Source: AJC

Sources: #Saints & Adrian Peterson believed to be closing in on a deal that’d pay him $3M+ in ’17. Not done, but moving in that direction.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 24, 2017

Smart.

All I want to know is how does Mark Ingram factor into this? Ingram is no scrub and the Saints don’t run it enough to really split the carries….

I predicted the Seahawks would do something about their tight ends but did not see this coming. Now that the Saints have two firsts anything can happen.

#Saints have a deal. They’re working out the logistics of sending TE Jimmy Graham & 4th to #Seahawks for Unger & 1st (@JayGlazer noted 1st)

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 10, 2015

DRAFT SEASON!!!

Playboy’s annual NFL Preview appears in the magazine’s October issue (on newsstands and i.Playboy.com Friday, September 21), and predicts that Matt Schaub and the Houston Texans will triumph over Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers to be crowned the champions of Super Bowl XLVII.

In addition to his Super Bowl prediction, Playboy Contributor and Dallas Morning News NFL Columnist Rick Gosselin breaks down his picks for each league’s divisional winners, and forecasts the NFL’s MVP and dark horse picks.

Following are Playboy’s 2012 NFL Preview Picks:

• AFC East Champion: New England Patriots
• AFC North Champion: Pittsburgh Steelers
• AFC South Champion: Houston Texans
• AFC West Champion: San Diego Chargers
• AFC Champion: Houston Texans
• NFC East Champion: Philadelphia Eagles
• NFC North Champion: Green Bay Packers
• NFC South Champion: New Orleans Saints
• NFC West Champion: San Francisco 49ers
• NFC Champion: Green Bay Packers

SUPER BOWL XLV CHAMPIONS: HOUSTON TEXANS

The New Orleans Saints just agreed to a deal with the QB that will net him $100 million over the next five years with at least $60 million of that guaranteed. Here are the details:

Brees, per a source with knowledge of the deal, will receive a $37 million signing bonus and a $3 million base salary in 2012. The full signing bonus will be paid out within the next six months.

The $40 million paid in 2012 is fully guaranteed. For now, $20 million beyond 2012 is guaranteed for injury only. Next year, on the third day of the waiver period (typically, the third day after the Super Bowl), $15 million of the injury guarantee becomes fully guaranteed. The extra $5 million remains guaranteed for injury only.

In 2015, again on the third day of the waiver period, more than half of his $19 million base salary becomes fully guaranteed. Ditto for 2016; on the third day of the waiver period, more than half of the $20 million base salary becomes fully guaranteed.

The device in the last two years of the contract forces the Saints to cut him, if at all, sufficiently early in the offseason to give him a full chance to land elsewhere.

In all, he’ll receive $40 million this year, $10 million in 2013, $11 million in 2014, $19 million in 2015, and $20 million in 2016.

Pertaining to the draft, the Saints are going to be weaker in the upcoming NFL Drafts.  In 2012, New Orleans’ second round pick will be forfeited.  In 2013, more picks may be forfeited as well:

As we understand it, the Saints will still have a significant draft-pick penalty in 2013, to go along with the loss of a second-round pick in 2012.

Profootballtalk

For a team that just lost CB Tracy Porter and WR Robert Meachem, that second round pick could have been used to replace one of those players.  Next year the Saints will probably have more holes.  Its a big penalty but on the bright side you always have Drew Brees.

According to PFT,

The Randy Moss Unretirement Tour officially has begun, with the 35-year-old receiver blowing away the Saints.

A league source tells PFT the workout “couldn’t have gone better.” Moss got in and out of his breaks quickly, and he showed great football intelligence.

Remember just a few weeks ago when Randy planned this comeback I wrote:

The three teams Im looking at are New England, New Orleans, and San Diego.

Seems as if things are leaning that way. Now let’s see if the Saints just get Drew Brees a long-term contract.

Here are the details:

Source says he expects #Saints to add Kellen Moore, likes his chances to succeed under Sean Payton

Credit: Cecil Lammey

I think this would be a great move considering Moore has a very similar skillset to the QBs they already have. Though Brees probably has the strongest arm between he, Daniels, and Moore all three QBs rely on accuracy and timing to make up for their lack of height at the position. Kellen Moore is going to be a serviceable QB wherever he goes due to his natural feel for timing routes, and it may be the best thing for him to study under Drew Brees for a couple years before taking over either in New Orleans or elsewhere.