Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here. Your team: New Orleans Saints Your 2015 record: 7-9. Pour one out for the swan song of Wolfman Rob. OWOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I’m gonna miss those two bitching at each other on the sideline after watching the Saints defense give up seven 80-yard completions in a row. The Benson family has better internal relations than the team they own. Your coach: Still Sean Payton! I can’t believe it. This man has been hung over for seven straight years and, instead of trading him to the Cowboys or some other hard-up franchise, the Saints handed Pa…

Some people are fans of the Atlanta Falcons. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Atlanta Falcons. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here. Your team: Atlanta Falcons Your 2012 record: 13-3. No one makes a 13-3 record look thoroughly underwhelming quite like the Falcons. Your coach: Mike Smith, who is a good coach 95% of the time. He can assemble a very good staff. He can nurture a young passer like Matt Ryan and help turn him into a top-tier quarterback. He can concoct defensive schemes that help cover up glaring deficiencies in the secondary. He can bestow upon the Falcons an atmosphere of professionalism and levelheadedness that every NFL team aspires to but few actually achieve. He can …

Back in November, pro golfer Matt Kuchar won the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico, which earned him $1.3 million. It’s customary for golfers on tour to give their caddies a 10-percent cut of their tournament winnings, which means that Kuchar’s caddie, David Ortiz, should have earned $130,000 for his week of work. But Ortiz only got a measly $5,000, and Kuchar doesn’t seem to think he did anything wrong. Ortiz is a club caddie in Mexico, and was picked by Kuchar to serve as a replacement when his regular caddie was unable to make the trip. After stewing over his paltry payment for a couple of months, Ortiz sent an email to Kuchar’s agent in January asking to be paid $50,000. He was instead offered an additional payment of $15,000, which prompted Ortiz to tell Golf.com that Kuchar …

data-mm-id=”_xlmfqzrzv”>The Houston Astros have been handed extremely harsh punishments for their systematic sign-stealing program that was exposed following the 2019 season. The franchise absolutely earned each of the penalties handed down from Major League Baseball. But fans on Twitter were not satisfied and wanted Houston's 2017 World Series title vacated as well. As a result, "Houston Asterisks" trended on Twitter Monday. Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch were both suspended for a year by the league, then subsequently fired by the team. Houston will also lose first- and second-round draft picks in 2020 and 2021, and pay a $5 million fine. That wasn't enough for some who believed the Astros' sign-stealing during the 2017 season (and p…

data-mm-id=”_a8q359ojz”>Last night, ESPN's Jeff Passan reported Major League Baseball was considering instituting some kind of bubble setup for the playoffs come fall. Considering the lack of success in preventing teams from suffering outbreaks of coronavirus that sidelines them for days or weeks and causes games to be postponed, it makes a lot of sense.Passan went on Get Up this morning to personally advocate for the concept, arguing that there's no time in the playoffs for a team to go a week without playing games in the case of an outbreak. Baseball needs a postseason bubble. pic.twitter.com/weDfCE9lQd— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 11, 2020Points were made, and it's hard to find any ground on which to disagree with Passan. The St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marli…

data-mm-id=”_24jh36m8c”>Some regular football news broke over the weekend when the New York Jets acquiesced to Jamal Adams' demands and traded him to the Seattle Seahawks. The Jets got a great haul for their best defensive player in the form of two first-round picks, a third-round pick, and steady vet Bradley McDougald. Seattle got a foundational cornerstone for their defense and one of the most versatile players in the league who can come in and make an instant impact for a unit that has fallen off in recent years. It's a rare occurrence in the NFL, but this transaction felt like a win for both teams immediately. Adams did not want to be on the New York Jets and the Seahawks want to maximize Russell Wilson's prime by surrounding him with elite talent. But if you ask Sea…

data-mm-id=”_9z95ybuh6″>There was a time when playing the Baltimore Ravens elicited fear in the opposition. Hell no wide receivers didn't want to go over the middle with Ray Lewis and Ed Reed patrolling the grounds, and get the "F" outta here being a quarterback stepping into a throw with Terrell Suggs barreling toward you. But the mystique those three created, along with many others, is no more, replaced instead by a team of floundering fake tough guys as easy to push around as the fish itself.In the Ravens' latest installment of playing "the artist formerly known as the Ravens," they were bullied by Derrick Henry and the Titans hogs up front to the tune of 173 rushing yards. The performance was highlighted by a 29-yard touchdown run in overtime that comp…

data-mm-id=”_r9c81xf4x”>The Denver Nuggets hold a 3-0 lead over the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. They'll have a chance to complete the sweep Monday night. Nikola Jokic has proven to be far too much for anyone to handle so there's a very good chance it's a four-game breeze. The Miami Heat, somehow, hold a 3-0 lead over the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals with the chance to give Joe Mazzulla more time to screen The Town beginning tomorrow night. Jimmy Butler is flirting with the line that seperates mortals from gods and the Gabe Vincent-Caleb Martin duo is suddenly incredible, so there's a good chance that one could be done and dusted before you show for work on Wednesday.And all credit to those teams. But you're probably a…