The Saints are back at their training facility today after a disappointing performance in Saturday’s preseason loss to Houston. New Orleans defense played well, they held Houston to 59 rushing yards and forced a couple of turnovers. But Coach Sean Payton says the offense’s performance was as bad as it gets…
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The Saints troubles on offense might start on the offensive line. There weren’t many holes for the running backs in Saturday’s loss to Houston and the o-line gave up two sacks in the first half.

The LSU Tigers begin the season ranked fifth in the preseason AP Top 25. Alabama is number one, followed by Clemson, Oklahoma and Florida State. Six SEC teams made the poll.

Louisiana Tech held its second scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday. Freshman defensive lineman Willie Baker and running back Bobby Holly were two guys who impressed. At ULM’s scrimmage this past weekend, Will Collins, Garrett Smith and Caleb Evans all threw touchdown passes. Ragin Cajuns quarterback Jordan Davis threw two touchdown passes on Saturday, one to Michael Jacquet and the other to Carlos Robinson.

In Natchitoches…Northwestern State’s defense produced five sacks, three of them by junior college transfer Tremaine Whittley in a scrimmage on Saturday. The Demons also had two interceptions. Devin Powell threw a TD pass at a scrimmage for Nicholls State. Southeastern Louisiana senior quarterback D’Shaie Landor threw four touchdown passes for the Lions in a scrimmage on Saturday morning.

And if the season started today, Coach Les Miles says his starting offensive line would look like this…KJ Malone and Toby Weathersby are the starting tackles, Will Clapp and Josh Boutte will start at guard and Ethan Pocic is your starting center.