Saintsaholics Anonymous: A New Orleans Saints Podcast

The Saints season opener is finally upon us, as the Panthers come into the DOME on Sunday at noon. After an offseason FULL of both speculation and consternation, which seemed to have drug on forever, we FINALLY get to see the full product of the new Klint Kubiak offense, paired with what has always been a solid Dennis Allen defense...or....at least that's what we are "expecting" to see on Sunday,...

It’s that time of year where we roll out our comprehensive preview of how we think this Saints season sets up. We go in depth into each position group, what we think we can expect and what we think the team’s overall record will be when it’s all said and done. PLUS, no season preview episode would be complete without our annual FEARLESS PREDICTIONS/28 to 3 Pod HOT TAKES. We definitely brought some...

Preseason is wrapping up and the Saints have until Tuesday (after the Titans game) to get their roster down from 90 to 53 men. We go through all the position groups and give our “expert” opinions and predictions on who will make the Final Cut. Some of our picks may surprise? Did we get them right? Are any just dead wrong? LISTEN IN! WHO DAT?!

Safe to say we all wanted to see more out of the Saints new offense after the first preseason game, and we definitely got more, including a 16 play TD drive that took 8:17 off the clock. We saw Tailback Taysom, lead blocker Taysom, and even Jamaal Williams running for more than 5 yards at a time, but did we see enough? Is more left to be desired? At least we saw some improvement from Penning, or a...

The Saints first preseason game of 2024 is in the books, and after much anticipation, we got our first in-game glimpse into the Klint Kubiak offense…or did we? In reality a far less than vanilla approach on offense yielded an unproductive outing for the starters, but of course some old concerns reared their ugly heads despite the “new” system and full offseason to improve. We dive deep into what w...

With a full week of Saints Training Camp practices in the books, including their first full pads practice, we get into plenty on this one, including observation from Saints beat writers, statements by players/coaches during pressers, and player/highlight videos making the rounds. Can Penning actually turn it around at his new spot of RT? Do his statements about mindset/work with Terron Armstead gi...

In this episode, Saints RB1 Alvin Kamara has earned the honor of being the subject of the latest edition of our 28 to 3 Pod patented "Game Show" debate format - which determines where a specific Saints player ranks - in our "expert" opinion - at his position, when stacked up against players of the same position on every NFL team. It's no secret that AK isn't the same as he used to be, and many Sai...

WE’RE BACK with our first ep in a while as we get through the slow off-season summer. SO, in this one we get into what we like from all the news/observations that have come out of the recently completed Saints Minicamp. Also, what concerns do we still have? That TE room, for one, is looking pretty sparse these days… Also, of course, we dive into the newly/formed Kamara contract issues. Officially...

On May 15th we finally found out the Saints 2024 schedule. We'd known the opponents for a while now, but now we know when our Saints will be playing each of them and can thus begin the speculation - or "predictions" and analysis - on how the timing of the matchups versus the various opponents will ultimately affect the Saints chances of finding enough wins to get back to the playoffs. We all agree...

It's been a while since our last episode, but it's also a pretty down time of the off-season; HOWEVER, the Saints have been putting out some news recently, including Rookie Mini-camp, recent statements by DA about the future of Marshawn Lattimore with the team, the anticipated, and now official, departure of Andrus Peat, some depth signings at offensive line, and "Big deal" or "No big deal" as to...

“I don’t believe what I just saw!” You’d have gotten one on us had you told us before Thursday night that the best way to describe the outcome of the Saints 2024 NFL Draft might just be those iconic and immortal words of the Late, Great sportscaster, Jack Buck, shouted into his mic as Kirk Gibson limped around the bases to cap off his pinch-hit, game-winning home run for the LA Dodgers in Game 1 o...

We are officially on the EVE of the 2024 NFL Draft, and in (probably) less than 24 hours from you listening to this your New Orleans Saints will be on the clock. Max and Corey ring in this Draft Eve special with Nick siitting this one out due to some "personal"/probably very "high-level" obligations. Offensive line is the big topic, and virtually every mock draft out there right now has us taking...

This was a fantastic episode, some wouid say "a banger", as Dan and Mike of The Saints, the City, and Me Podcast, (plus cameo by Steve/@WhoDatinTheUK) join the pod - in person/in studio - to round out their French Quarter Fest trip from England to New Orleans. [On Twitter - Dan: @Procrastinatus; Mike: @MKCPapa]We'd talked about doing an in-person recording with Dan and Mike for a long time, so it...

We recorded this episode at an earlier date, but the news breaking around the time remains the primary topics of discussion as the Saints head into the 2024 NFL Draft and look to shore up their roster (maybe via Free Agency?) beforehand. Does the Ramczyk injury news/knee prognosis mean the Saints "MUST" draft an offensive tackle at pick 14 - OR - are they still in a position to go get an impact of...

Of course it's no coincidence we launched this podcast on 3/28, and we did so exactly one year ago today. So, to celebrate our one year mark, we've put together a highlight reel of select moments from certain episode and highlights from every guest we've had on the pod in year one, including - in order of appearance: Roman Harper (Saints Hall of Fame Member) Garland Gillen of Fox 8 Sports Ralph Ma...

We take a break from our usual Saints news and banter to talk about an important charitable cause all three of us are involved in, that is: Hogs for the Cause and our Hogs team: "Deadpork" (Ryan Reynolds has not yet technically approved our appropriation of his movie title, but it's for a good cause, right?!). For those who may not know, Hogs for the Cause, now in its sixteenth year, raises millio...

We've done this exercise before, for Chris Olave. The exercise, now known as: The 28 to 3 Pod "Game Show" has proven to be one of our favorite, and maybe most effective, ways of determining exactly where a player ranks league-wide, despite our biased feelings (rightfully so) as Saints fans who may have trouble separating our positive (or negative) feelings from any given hometown player. So, we pu...

The Saints are now a full week into the Free Agency signing period (a little more counting the "legal tampering" period). We recap the team's moves, especially the big Chase Young signing - and, as of the day we recorded this, the big Chase Young injury news (aka the most "Saints" thing ever). Obviously, before the Chase Young signing, the moves were pretty small ones, at best, especially compared...

It's one of the biggest questions asked every year in the lead up to the NFL Draft: What are the chances our team will land its next franchise QB if it trades significant draft capital to move up and draft one of the top 3 QB's in the draft? After this episode (and thanks to some impressive analysis by our resident-stat/numbers guru, Nick), we have your answer. It may be what you're thinking, but...

With the NFL Free Agency legal tampering/signing period beginning, Nick, Max, and Corey discuss potential free agent targets for the Saints, preview the free agent signing period as a whole, and offer some predictions on who they think the Saints will look to bring in. The guys also offer their thoughts on the Lattimore trade rumors and how that could potentially affect the Saints free agent moves...

NFL Draft conversation is in full swing, and who the Saints might pick - or should pick - at No. 14 is on the mind of the Who Dat Nation. With the NFL Combine having just wrapped up in Indy, Max, Nick, and Corey get into who they thought stood out and whose performance at the Combine should cause the Saints to pay closer attention to them. We also get into the idea of the Combine as a whole. We lo...

On this "Part 2" of what turned into a marathon episode about the Klint Kubiak hire and Saints offensive revamp, we continue the discussion of what draft prospects could help the Saints fill some of those "signature" or typical offensive positions we've seen highly utilized by the "Shanahan Offenses", i.e. the types of players that Klint Kubiak would like to have at his disposal when calling plays...

The Saints finally made it "official official" and have hired our MUCH needed new OC in Klint Kubiak, and he's bringing his own cavalry with him. Max and Corey talked last episode about the potential, in a very general sense, of bringing Kubiak on board when it was mostly still rumored that he was the guy (pre-Super Bowl); but in this episode we dive deep into specifics on how Kubiak - and the new...

Damn it feels good to have some POSITIVE Saints news to talk about. After numerous OC interviews, anxiety about how long things were taking, and doubts/concerns that the process was all a front to bring in Jon Chucky Gruden, it appears that the Saints got their guy as the new Offensive Coordinator in Klint Kubiak. Of course, we agree that we don’t trust anything until we see the news made official...

Here it is, the Official 28 to 3 Podcast 2023 Saints Season Recap Episode. We look back on the season that was, in detail, position-by-position - PLUS - and most importantly - we review our OWN 2023 Season Predictions, which we laid out in our Season Preview Pod, Episode 23. In this one, we treat yall to a mash-up of clips of our bad takes, our good takes, and we end the episode by leaving you wit...