New Orleans Saints franchise

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Hi there, my new project, doing a dynasty with the new orleans. the san diego chargers, i will finish the season, shelf it and come back to it at a later date.

Madden 08 pc, graphics sucks but so does EA, and i dont really play much video/console games so im not gonna go buy an xbox360 just for madden 11 LOL.

It will be all-pro, sliders slightly favor the CPU, accelerated 12-min clock, team is the New Orleans Saints. Season is 2010-onwards.

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The defending Super Bowl Champion New Orleans SAINTS announced this morning that Mickey Loomis has stepped down as general manager of the New Orleans Saints after being involved with the franchise for over 8 years. Loomis was assigned the role in 2002 and quickly rebuilt the franchise after the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and helped win it's first championship in Super Bowl XLIV (this past season).

"Were definitley sad to see him go, it's a sad day theres know bones to pick with him, he was a great general manager, he drafted well, spoke well, represented well and was an all-round great person to be around with, there hasn't been a more hard working person than Mickey Loomis," said team owner Tom Benson.

The Saints announced that the general manager to replace Mickey Loomis is newcomer William II Boom, a 28 year old who graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor degree in Social Studies and Sociology. "It's a good news day today, I'm proud to become a apart of this organization, it has great history and some great players, were looking to do well this season, we have our sights set on a Super Bowl, we can't talk it right now, were going to have to show the world our talent."

Last season the Saints started out 13-0, dropping their last 3 games but then went on to defeat the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings in the post-season on their way to their first Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts, 31-17.

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NEW ORLEANS -- For fans in the Big Easy, "Lombardi Gras" just keeps continuing.

Michael Jenkins picked off Brett Favre on the first play of the game, later forced Adiran Peterson to fumble on the Saints five yard line and rookie Patrick Robinson recorded two interceptions, the first was returned 40 yards to give the Saints their first win of the season in the post-Super Bowl euphoria.

The Saints defense held the high-prolific Vikings offense to just 274 yards and ten points, and the high-prolific Saints themselves could only muster 192 total yards on offense as the Saints survived a hard-fought season opener and a late controversial call for a 16-10 victory Thursday night over the Minnesota Vikings.

With 1:53 left in the fourth quarter and up 16-10, Reggie Bush took a run to the edge and it looked as if he had fumbled the ball away, the Vikings recovered it and took it back 87 yards to put them up 17-16, but unfortunately for them, the call was reversed and the Saints managed to run the clock out.

"Were not going to complain about calls," said a unhappy looking Brad Childress, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings. "We threw an interception on the first play of the game, overthrew by miles for a third interception, fumbled right near their endzone and just pissed the game away."

Sounds like we need to reminisce back to the 2010 NFC Championship, where the Vikings threw-away turnovers and allowed the Saints to win the game. It was hardly an eye-catching performence to start their defense of the title, but a win is a win as quoted by Drew Brees in the post game interview.

Drew Brees completed 10 of 12 passes for 116 yards for a quarterback rating of 106.9, but to the Saints horror limped off the field late in the third quarter after being sacked four times, Madden Curse may just be on it's way to Louisiana if the offensive line doesn't protect their franchise quarterback better. Chase Daniel did a pretty good job too! Daniels completed 7 of 8 passes for 44 yards. Daniels didn't need to win the game for the Saints, just merely manage it.

"He did a good job," said Reggie Bush who rushed for 41 yards on a tough Vikings defense, who limited the Saints to 50 rushing yards on 32 attempts. "We need to get better at running the football, the Vikings are a physical team, next week against the 49ers will be just as physical, so were going to have to do our thing," said Saints coach Sean Payton.

Adrian Peterson rushed for 82 yards off 23 carries and Brett Favre completed 15 of 30 passes for 203 yards and 3 interceptions, it wasn't an offensive onslaught by the Saints, but when it needed to, the defense came through, in particular Jonathan Vilma, who recorded 9 tackles and limited Peterson to a 2.4 rushing average, but when Vilma went off temporarily, Peterson averaged 16.5 yards per carry.

Go figure, I have, the Saints defense this season might push for a deep playoff run, not it's offense.

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