The Spencer Rattler era started tonight. Game-winning drive, no stopping him now

Jordan Mims has started strong in New Orleans Saints training camp. If he can continue his momentum, Mims can make a stronger claim for third on the depth chart.

Normally, Mim and Kendre Miller would share reps against the Arizona Cardinals. That won’t be the case in the debut. Miller is out with an injury which opens up a huge opportunity. He hurt his hamstring on the first day of training camp and hasn’t returned to practice in two and a half weeks.

Alvin Kamara is at the top of the depth chart, and he’ll handle most of the snaps with the starters. Jamaal Williams will likely take snaps with the second team, and this is where Mims will mix in. Miller’s absence takes him out of the rotation. There have been no signs Miller will return soon. Even if it’s just for a game, however, these are valuable reps

The New Orleans Saints played their starting offensive unit for just two drives in the preseason opener. That’s one drive less than a year ago but with drasticallly different results.

The starting offense ran nine plays and were largely unimpressive, despite facing the Cardinals second team defense. Derek Carr wanted to play in the season opener, likely to gain comfortability in Klint Kubiak’s offense. If that was the goal, playing next week could be warranted.

Carr went 2-for-6 on the evening with some poor passes to Chris Olave along the way. Olave was the only wide receiver targeted by Carr. On the first completion of the night on 3rd and 5, Carr threw an out route behind Olave. It made for a much more difficult catch, and the defender was able to contest the pass because of it. Olave did come down with the catch, however. It’s good to see him playing with a more physical edge

The 2024 NFL season is now less than 30 days away, with 29 days remaining until the New Orleans Saints kickoff their Week 1 matchup against the Carolina Panthers. As we continue to count down the days until that matchup, we take a look at the corresponding jersey number, which today is No. 29 — Paulson Adebo.

With players like Sammy Knight, Chris Ivory, Mo Spencer, and Josh Bullocks previously wearing 29, it is no foreign number to Saints fans. With that said, let’s take a look at Paulson Adebo’s background through this point in his career, as well as what we could expect from him this upcoming season

"THE TALKING IS OVER WITH!" @Mathieu_Era leads the pregame huddle#Saints | @CoxComm pic.twitter.com/7oBXvKYlGG

— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) August 10, 2024

The New Orleans Saints’ tradition of legendary pregame speeches continues. For many years we saw some absolutely amazing motivational speeches from Drew Brees before games, and there is no doubt that this had a significant impact on games. When he ended up retiring, we saw another Saints legend Demario Davis take over, who has also been absolutely phenomenal at doing so

Charlie Smyth just hit from 66!!! Off a hold, too. Not a tee.

— Nick Underhill (@nick_underhill) August 10, 2024

As Charlie Smyth is entering his first professional NFL game ever, he just knocked in two impressive kicks in warmups.

Smyth is currently in contest with Blake Grupe to be the New Orleans Saints kicker in 2024. It’s unclear how many kickers the Saints will play in their preseason debut versus the Arizona Cardinals, but both men are warming up before the game