SUNDAY SPORTS EXTRA: Saints get creative, T-Bob Hebert talks LSU and Mariners honor Gleason family
Updated: 12:06 PM CDT Sep 7, 2020
Show Transcript
good Sunday evening, everyone. I’m WD issue sports anchor Fletcher Mackel, reporting tonight from my home in mid City, and we’re still talking about the Jadeveon Clowney saga. The New Orleans Saints wanted to sign the three time Pro Bowl defensive end, but in the end, he ended up agreeing to terms with the Tennessee Titans. But on Sunday afternoon, the NFL Network shed some light on what could have been one of the most creative deals in NFL history. Had Saints general manager Mickey Loomis been ableto pull this off, it would have been precedent setting, and it could have changed the NFL for years to come. In layman’s terms, here’s how things broke down. The Saints were reportedly going to work with the Cleveland Browns because the Browns had extra salary cap space in the Saints. Didn’t have enough to sign clowning. The way things were going to go down, Clowney would have signed with the Browns, and then immediately he’d have been traded to the New Orleans Saints for a second round draft pick in a player. But the NFL got wind of the deal, and they mixed it. Credit to Mickey Loomis for trying to find a creative way to get a star player down here to New Orleans Now, even without Jadaveon Clowney, the Saints air still loaded for Bear. So to say they’re one of the favorites to win Super Bowl 55 next February. Earlier this week, I caught up with Michele Tafoya from NBC Sports, and we talked all about Drew Brees, and I asked her, Does Breeze have to make it back to the Super Bowl in what most believe will be his final NFL season to fulfill his illustrious NFL career to be on the same footing with Peyton Manning, Brett Farve, Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Steve Young, all guys who played in multiple Super Bowls? I think Drew Brees has had a Hall of Fame career, and I don’t think there’s any if stands or buts about that. So if he doesn’t get back, I’m sure it’s going to stick in his crime. Um, but it will not diminish his career in my eyes at all. On Sunday afternoon, the Saints released their practice squad for 2020 and because of Cove it, the rules have been relaxed. This year on the roster has been expanded, so veteran players can be on the practice squad. Therefore, receiver Bennie Fowler in defensive lineman Marcus Hunter on the practice squad, as is linebacker Joe Bochy. Young player. The Saints like veteran Anthony Chick alot wide receiver Little Jordan Humphrey and 2020 draft pick former quarterback now tight end Tommy Stephens. The Saints, of course, opened the season one week from today in the Dome against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And Brady has a new running back, New Orleans native Leonard Fournette. And check this out. Leonard has a New Jersey with his new team. He’ll be number 28 in Tampa, the last running back famed running back toe where 28 with the Bucks, another prominent Louisianians, Warrick Dunn back in the late nineties and early two thousands. Let’s change gears now from the NFL to college football. I caught up with T Bob A Bear, the former center and team captain and now a very prominent radio show host throughout Louisiana, and I asked Bob one simple question. Who in what are the 2020 unless you tigers? This is where it’s a perfectly time question because the Jamaar Chase News and Tyler Shelvin users will get into that has changed my outlook on who this Tiger team is. But when you look, you don’t have a Tiger team that is down to 70 scholarship players out of the available 85. Ah, you are returning just five starters from last year’s national championship team. You lost Joe Brady and bring in Scotland and has been coaching changes as well. And then, obviously, you’re going from Joe Borough, the greatest l A shoe player of all time to, ah, unknown Commodity and miles, bringing one that just lost his best weapon. So the unfortunate answer to who are these L S U Tigers is we don’t really know. Now I still believe that they have a a great amount of talent on this team. But that it and that’s why I was still very hopeful on this season, like 18 Tuesday like that. But that took a major hit. When you lose Jamaar Chase, who is your best NFL prospect on the team deadly best in office, and then Tyler Shelvin, who arguably was your best draft salable a draft eligible defensive prospect. So it’s been a hell of a new cycle for L s U N and Co. Chose ability to sustain success is going to be tested in an immediate and ah intense way here one year after that national championship. And finally we close with Steve Police in the former Saints. Great is, of course, from the Pacific Northwest. He played his college football at Washington State, and in the summers, he, his wife, Michelle, and their two Children usually spend some time back up there. But because of the pandemic, they had to stay in New Orleans this summer. But this weekend, the Seattle Mariners, a team that Steve is a big fan off, asked the family to throw out the first pitch. So here is Rivers Gleason, the lefty throwing the first pitch virtually to his mother, Michelle. The VA Risk owes Michelle’s family great athletes. Steve, a great athlete looking Rivers. He may have a future, is a left handed pitcher. Maybe we’ll be talking about him pitching in the major leagues one day. Great stuff this weekend. Great job by the Gleason’s great job by the Seattle Mariners, and that’s a look at sports. Stay with us, everyone. We’ll be right back
SUNDAY SPORTS EXTRA: Saints get creative, T-Bob Hebert talks LSU and Mariners honor Gleason family
Updated: 12:06 PM CDT Sep 7, 2020
WATCH the attached video clip to learn how the New Orleans Saints tried to get creative to sign a star player, to hear what a former LSU player thinks about the 2020 edition of the Tigers football and team and to learn about how the Seattle Mariners baseball franchise honored a New Orleans icon.
WATCH the attached video clip to learn how the New Orleans Saints tried to get creative to sign a star player, to hear what a former LSU player thinks about the 2020 edition of the Tigers football and team and to learn about how the Seattle Mariners baseball franchise honored a New Orleans icon.
