This could be the stiffest 1-2 punch our local teams face so far this season, as the New Orleans Saints will go up against Drake Maye and the New England Patriots on Sunday, while the LSU Tigers get LaNorris Sellers and the South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday.

Saints editor and Times-Picayune / Advocate assistant sports editor  Zach Ewing and host Jim Derry will tell us what to expect on another “Fun Friday” edition of the (Ep. 426) . They also will make their predictions for the Saints and LSU and will hear from fans, who also will make picks.

Last but not least, Gabe Henderson and Uncle Big Nick are here for another edition of the “Pick Em” contest and their Best Bets for NFL Week 6 and CFB Week 7, and our meteorologist Damon Singleton has the Dat Weather forecast for the Crescent City this weekend, which (spoiler alert) looks beautiful for the home teams.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction

15:39 Pregame Chat on Dat

22:12 Dattitude Weather Forecast

28:19 Answering comments

30:35 Zach Ewing joins; Tulane talk

37:25 South Carolina-LSU talk

47:00 LSU predictions

49:30 Patriots-Saints talk

1:06:58 Patriots-Saints predictions

1:12:50 Post-interview

1:15:30 Gabe, UBN, Jim Best Bets

1:39:15 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).

Jim Derry is the host of the Dattitude Podcast. Member of Times-Picayune staff since 1990. Catch the pod live or on demand on , , , and . Jim can be reached at jderry@theadvocate.com or on X .