"THE TALKING IS OVER WITH!" 😤@Mathieu_Era leads the pregame huddle#Saints | @CoxComm pic.twitter.com/7oBXvKYlGG
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) August 10, 2024
The New Orleans Saints’ tradition of legendary pregame speeches continues. For many years we saw some absolutely amazing motivational speeches from Drew Brees before games, and there is no doubt that this had a significant impact on games. When he ended up retiring, we saw another Saints legend Demario Davis take over, who has also been absolutely phenomenal at doing so.
With Demario Davis’ injury, he will not be playing in Saturday’s preseason Week 1 game. In lieu of this injury, Louisiana icon Tyrann Mathieu took over the duty for this week as the pregame speech master. He did a great job at doing so as well, continuing the streak of pretty impressive teamwork building through speeches.
Mathieu will be going up against his former team, the Arizona Cardinals this week, after being drafted by them back in 2013 and playing there for five seasons. After being picked in Round 3, he would go on to have one Pro Bowl and one All-Pro first team appearance with the Cardinals before moving on to the Houston Texans, the Kansas City Chiefs, and now his hometown Saints.
