It’s still 2 months away from the start of NFL training camps, but many of the “experts” in sports media have already labeled 2025 a disaster in the making for the New Orleans Saints. (Jim Derry is one of them.)

Are the predictions premature, or is it common sense with a QB room of Tyler Shough, Spencer Rattler and Jake Haener? That’s the theme of another Mano E Monday edition of Dattitude of the Dattitude Podcast (Ep. 376) presented by Evangeline Securities.

Gabe Henderson also is here to weigh in, and we also discuss whether LSU-Clemson is a must-win for the Brian Kelly, Garrett Nussmeier and the Tigers in the opening weekend of college football play. In “The Last Word,” Jim goes back in time … like way back … to the time of DeLoreans and Doc Brown, as something big happened 40 years ago on this date.

CHAPTERS                                                                            

0:00 Introduction

11:30 Pregame Chat on Dat

23:40 Saints experts too negative?

1:01:04 Mondays with Gabe

1:20:24 Final comments

1:35:00 Last Word: 40 years ago today

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