5 HRS AGO - Photo by Bryan M. Bennett/Getty Images The AFC Championship Game is here, and the winner moves on to represent the conference in Super Bowl LV. Join us here for the game! #2 Buffalo Bills at #1 Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs host the Buffalo Bills in tonight’s AFC Championship Game. This is Kansas City’s third consecutive AFC Championship Game, winning the conference title at home a year ago. This is Buffalo’s first trip to the AFC Championship Game since the 1993 season where they defeated, of all teams, Kansas City. Here’s to an entertaining AFC title game! Kickoff - 3:40pm PST / 5:40pm CST / 6:40pm EST Location - Arrowhead Stadium - Kansas City, Missouri Network - CBS - Jim Nantz, Tony Romo Online Streaming: cbssports.com Enjoy the AFC title game along with us! Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images The New Orleans Saints will need to re-sign some of the stars in order to be competitive, here are the top five they should consider. The New Orleans Saints will aim to remain competitive in the upcoming 2021 NFL season. However, the potential retirement of Drew Brees and the salary cap dilemma have many fans worried that competitive may not be the case. Fortunately, through contract restructures and extensions, New Orleans will have some money to play with and may aim to re-sign some of their stars that are currently free agents. Here are the top five players the team should target: Jameis Winston, Quarterback While many fans are clamoring to trade for Deshaun Watson or Matthew Stafford, we are aiming to be a bit more pragmatic. The Saints will need a cost-effective option at the position, and Winston is at the top of the list. Couple that with “it’s your team now” moment with Brees at the end of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game and the Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The case for and against each team inside. This Sunday the Green Bay Packers are set to host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship game. For New Orleans Saints fans who will still watch the game just because they enjoy watching football, this presents a bit of a conundrum. Who do you wind up cheering for? Tampa Bay Buccaneers The case for: What’s another ring for Tom Brady at this point? All things considered, he seems like a decent enough dude. He threw a touchdown pass to Drew Brees’s kids after last week’s game for Pete’s sake! If Brady has 6 rings, 7 rings, or 11 rings, it doesn’t really change the hierarchy of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks. If Aaron Rodgers wins another Super Bowl, it will just add more talking heads to those who put Rodgers above Brees when discussing the all-time greats. And hey, if Brady wins, maybe he decides he has nothing left to prove - owning the NFL’s all-time touchdown record and having won a Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - On a number of occasions, when it would have been easy to look at it with a glass-half-empty outlook, these guys really battled, and that was encouraging Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images The New Orleans Saints will have some tough decisions looming ahead, none more so than which players to extend. Here are our top five. Despite talk and rumors of the New Orleans Saints possibly trading for their next franchise quarterback, let’s assume they do not. For this practice, the Saints will not trade for Deshaun Watson or Matthew Stafford, and instead will roll the dice with signing Jameis Winston to a team-friendly deal. This would conceivably give New Orleans a little more cap space to work with, especially after the restructuring of contracts and extensions. Additionally, the players listed below are still under contract with the team and are not set to be unrestricted free agents. Here are five players the Saints should extend this offseason: Ryan Ramczyk, Tackle Ramczyk is arguably the most talented and important part of the Saints offensive line. Part of the vaunted 2017 draft class, Ramczyk has gone on to become a Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports The only reason the last four years have been so hard is because the Saints have been in a position to succeed When Sean Payton and Drew Brees came to New Orleans together in 2006, it was impossible to know what was about to happen to the Saints organization. Brees was an above-average quarterback coming off of arthroscopic surgery to repair torn right labrum, whereas Payton was a first-time head coach who avoided being fired by the Giants by getting poached from the Cowboys. Brees only had one other serious suitor in 2006 — the Miami Dolphins — who ultimately decided to trade for Dante Culpepper after team doctors indicated signing him wasn’t the best move. The Saints took a chance on the then 27-year-old QB, and paired him with Payton in an offseason that also saw them select Reggie Bush with the second pick in the NFL draft. The Brees era began with a 2-0 start with wins over the Browns and Packers, but didn’t start in earnest until Week 3 Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Should be an interesting week of football. The postseason continues on despite the fact that the New Orleans Saints are no longer in it. This week, the conference championship games are set to kickoff, with the Buffalo Bills traveling to the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC and Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers set to host Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC. While the majority of the CSC staff thinks Rodgers and Company will emerge out of the NFC, the AFC game offers a bit more intrigue, with the staff divided on who will come out victorious between Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. Here are our live-updating picks: Thanks to Tallysight for helping keep track with all of our picks each week and offering this super awesome graphic. Make sure you follow Canal Street Chronicles on Twitter at @SaintsCSC, on Instagram @SaintsCSC, “Like” us on Facebook at Canal Street Chronicles, and make sure you’re Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images The Texans’ superstar quarterback is not going to come cheap Get ready to hear this question a trillion times this offseason. From journalists, to idiots with a keyboard (like me!), to random twitter users named “Firstname Bunchofnumbers”, near every person that follows the NFL will be asking the same thing: What will it take for us to get Deshaun Watson? With Houston Texans star quarterback Deshaun Watson reportedly on the trade market this spring, there are about 30 NFL teams that will be ringing Houston’s line, seeing what it will take to get the former Clemson man under center for them in 2021 (I’m giving KC the benefit of the doubt in saying they don’t have a pressing need for him at the moment). While lots of teams will certainly be interested, what they can actually offer is a much different story. So let’s examine what a potential Saints package for Deshaun Watson would look like. For starters, there’s almost no precedence for a Collapse