{"id":665815,"date":"2026-01-09T07:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/665815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:08:31","slug":"morning-break-saints-begin-offseason-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/665815\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Break: Saints begin offseason planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints Executive Vice President\/General Manager Mickey Loomis announced today that the club has signed WR Damien Alford to a reserve\/future contract. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/damien-alford-wide-receiver-new-orleans-saints-roster-moves-reserve-future-contract\" title=\"New Orleans Saints sign WR Damien Alford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the New Orleans Saints won four straight games for the first time since 2020 to finish 6-11, before they generated a fever of optimism entering the offseason and before players credited Kellen Moore&#8217;s approach, enthusiasm and consistency holding the team together amid a 2-10 start \u2014 the first-year head coach had already shown his ability to navigate adversity. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/new-orleans-saints-mickey-loomis-kellen-moore-press-conference-2025\" title=\"New Orleans Saints saw steady leadership from Kellen Moore amid early setbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints Executive Vice President\/General Manager Mickey Loomis announced today that the club has signed WR Damien&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-665815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115863886860180439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}