New Orleans Saints

A good time to talk Saints after we got our first look at the team during Thursday's OTA session

In today's episode of Black and Gold Today, host Larry Holder looks at Roman Harper's just-announced new contract, sees how Kenny Vaccaro is doing so far and lets us hear from Drew Brees on several topics. Followed by your comments, of course.

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New Orleans Saints safety Roman Harper has signed a new contract, first reported by NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and confirmed by league sources. #Saints S Roman Harper signed a extension that includes $4M fully guaranteed in Year 1. Was set to make $5.25M in '13. No full details yet — Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 24, 2013 Well it's about damn time! We all knew this had to be coming. That would explain Harper's late arrival to yesterday's OTA practice. Looks like Harper is definitely in the plans for the future, much to the disappointment of those Saints fans who were hoping the team would outright cut him instead. The new deal extends Harper through the 2015 season, which should help the Saints financially by spreading out the money. Harper was set to have a $7.1 million salary cap figure, including a base salary of $5.25 million of which more than $2.5 million would have been guaranteed on the third day of the league year.

Ralph is joined by Dave and Andrew to discuss the Saints OTAs and the return of Sean Payton. Ralph could not be more excited for the Rob Ryan era. Andrew tries to figure out if Will Smith will be any good at linebacker. Are any linebackers even worth more than a dollar? Dave is not pleased with the left tackle situation and all potential options scare him. The guys make crazy predictions after one day of practice. Dave isn't sure we will see as much of Ben Watson as you might think but Andrew disagrees.Oh, and they make fun of the fact Kevin couldn't be on the show because he injured his ass learning how to do the suplex to a stuffed animal. Listen right now to track #1 below, get the feed right here and/or download it on iTunes right here. Warning: explicit language and adult content. Podcast Powered By Podbean

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