Get news and notes all year long in college football, The New Orleans Saints call When the Saints and Cowboys play at Clarion Ledger<\/p>\n Saints coach Sean Payton said McAllister will start and The Advocate<\/p>\n Monday, August 20, 2006 Get news and notes all year long in college football, beginning early in the week and updated until gametime at JoeDuffy.net Cowboys-Saints Shreveport Times The New Orleans Saints call Louisiana home, but there\u2019s a clash of loyalties between the Saints and the Dallas Cowboys for local NFL fans in Shreveport-Bossier City. … Continue reading Monday News and Notes<\/span>
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\nhome, but there\u2019s a clash of loyalties between the Saints and the Dallas
\nCowboys for local NFL fans in
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\nCowboys meet in an NFL preseason game at Independence Stadium in front of a nationally
\ntelevised audience Monday night. ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Football will broadcast
\nthe game.
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\nOrleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> running back Deuce McAllister is expected to
\nplay for the first time since tearing the anterior cruciate<\/span>
\nligament in his right knee
\n2005<\/st1:date>, against
\nwill get a significant number of carries to see just where he is in the
\nrecovery. The plan for McAllister will likely be similar to the one Payton had
\nfor quarterback Drew Brees<\/span>, who played three series –
\nhe was replaced three minutes into the second quarter – in last week\u2019s
\npreseason opener at
\nhis labrum last December in his final game with
\nBrees<\/span> said last week he felt the normal morning-after
\nsoreness associated with having played the previous day, but no setbacks with
\nthe shoulder. The Saints hope to be just as fortunate with McAllister, who
\nappears to have responded well to more physical practices this week. McAllister
\nwas held out of the game against the Titans for more rest. But Payton said it\u2019s
\nvital that McAllister runs against full-speed, full-contact competition. Monday
\nwill mark the first time the Saints play McAllister and top draft pick Reggie
\nBush together.<\/span> \u201cWe can both save each other\u2019s legs,\u201d
\nBush said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do everything we can to work together instead of
\nagainst each other. But we are going to compete.\u201d
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\nBill Parcells announced Saturday wide receiver Terrell Owens won\u2019t suit up
\nagainst the Saints because he hasn\u2019t practiced enough since returning from a
\ntender hamstring that caused him to sit out 14 consecutive days of practice.
\nRookie Marques Colston<\/span> has spent a lot of time
\nrunning with the first unit this week and could be making a push to take one of
\nthe five or six receiver spots. A seventh-round draft pick from
\nbigger receivers in camp at 6-foot-4 and 231 pounds and he has shown surprising
\nspeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"