There’s no question the New Orleans Saints have a little added oomph behind their sails this week as they travel to Chicago to play the Bears and former coach Dennis Allen. Meanwhile, there are some distractions, as and Chris Olave and whether they will be traded.
Any of those rumors true? Saints editor and Times-Picayune / Advocate assistant sports editor Zach Ewing joins host Jim Derry for his weekly visit to talk about it on another “Fun Friday” edition of the (Ep. 429) . They also will talk about whether one should listen to the chatter around the LSU Tigers being an underdog at Vanderbilt.
Zach and Jim will make their predictions for the Saints, LSU and Tulane, and they will hear from fans, who also make their picks. To finish it off, Gabe Henderson and Uncle Big Nick are here for another edition of the “Pick Em” contest and their Best Bets for NFL Week 7 and CFB Week 8, and our meteorologist Damon Singleton has the Dat Weather forecast for where our teams are playing this weekend.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
4:55 Pregame Chat on Dat
12:27 First Dat Family comments
25:10 Dattitude Weather Forecast
32:00 Answering comments
33:30 Zach Ewing joins; Saints trade talk
43:40 LSU-Vandy talk
48:55 LSU predictions
56:30 Tulane talk, predictions
59:40 Saints-Bears preview talk
1:16:00 Patriots-Saints predictions
1:24:00 Post Interview
1:28:20 Gabe, UBN, Jim Best Bets
1:50:20 Final thoughts
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Jim Henderson was recently here to celebrate Ep. 400, but we also have talked to Saints GM Mickey Loomis (Ep. 79), former coach Jim Mora (Ep. 83), NFL Hall of Famer Rickey Jackson (Ep. 57), former LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri (Ep. 157) and former LSU basketball coach Dale Brown (Ep. 45). Oh, and it all started with former ESPN anchor Stan Verrett (Ep. 1).