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Six days before the Super Bowl Marcus Davenport Jersey White , the court battle has begun in a longshot lawsuit seeking a possible do-over of the NFC game that ended with a Los Angeles Rams victory over the New Orleans Saints, a game affected by what the NFL concedes was a blown “no-call” by officials.A Monday hearing in federal court did not result in an immediate ruling. It dealt largely with a jurisdictional question.The two Saints season ticket holders who filed the lawsuit want it heard in state court in New Orleans. The NFL filed to have it heard in federal court, where U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan heard initial arguments at midday. She was expected to meet with attorneys on both sides again in the evening and it was unclear when the jurisdictional issue, or the case itself, would be resolved.Officials failed to call interference or roughness penalties when a Rams player leveled a Saints receiver with a helmet-to-helmet hit at a crucial point in the in the final minutes of regulation time. The Rams won the Jan. 20 game in overtime and are set to play the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl.The lawsuit by two Saints season ticket holders, Tommy Badeaux and Candis Lambert, says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should implement a league rule — Rule 17 — governing “extraordinarily unfair acts.” Remedies include reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game — in its entirety or from the point when the act occurred.NFL lawyers say the lawsuit belongs in federal court for reasons including the possible scope. They argued that the suit takes the form of a class action that could mean millions of dollars in damages for Saints ticket holders and others in what the suit calls “the Who Dat Nation,” a reference to Saints fans and a popular team cheer.Attorney Frank D’Amico, who filed the lawsuit two days after the championship game, said that, while the lawsuit recounts damages suffered by Saints fans, it doesn’t specifically ask for monetary compensation. Instead, D’Amico said, it seeks a court order, under state law, forcing Goodell to investigate the blown call under the never before invoked Rule 17.D’Amico also insisted that he wasn’t specifically asking for a court-ordered do-over or reversal of the game Womens Marcus Davenport Jersey , although that could be the result if the rule is invoked. “We’re not trying to keep the Super Bowl from going forward,” he said.That appeared to surprise Gladstone Jones, a New Orleans attorney arguing for the NFL, who said it would be “big news” that D’Amico’s clients aren’t trying to stop or delay the big game.As to D’Amico’s call for an investigation, Jones said there is no need. League officials, he said, have clearly reviewed the calls. “They have done their due diligence.”His arguments tracked positions taken in weekend briefs filed by NFL lawyers.“The NFL parties do not dispute that they have previously advised the Saints, including the club’s head coach, that one or more penalties — for pass interference or illegal helmet-to-helmet contact — were mistakenly not called late in the NFC Championship Game, and that the NFL would like its officials on the field to make these calls,” an NFL filing says.But it also says Goodell, a defendant in the lawsuit along with the league itself, does not have the authority to overrule a referee on the field. Even if the rule did apply, the NFL attorneys argue, a decision on a remedy is up to the commissioner, not a ticket-holder.Morgan had to step away from a jury trial in an unrelated case to preside over Monday’s hearing. Records show she got the case after it was initially assigned to U.S. District Judge Barry Ashe — who removed himself from the case because he has Saints season tickets. METAIRIE Tre'Quan Smith Jersey White , La. (AP) — Saints quarterback Drew Brees practically laughed while describing himself as “still green” at the onset of his 19th NFL training camp.The smile on the 40-year-old’s face looked like an acknowledgment of how silly he knew he must have sounded as he spoke, even if, to him, there was real logic behind his assertion.“By no means have I arrived,” said Brees, a former Super Bowl MVP and the NFL’s all-time leader in yards passing with 74,437. “I had a coach tell me, ‘As long as you are green, you will continue to grow. As soon as you are ripe, you’ll soon be rotten.’“As soon as you think you know it all, you’re done,” Brees continued. “So I’m still green. I’ve still got things to learn.”Brees is in the final season of his contract, but has declined to specify how much longer he might play.He is by no means in denial about the erosion of skills every older athlete faces, but he strives to be proactive in his approach to maximizing his longevity, from the way he trains to the way he eats.The father of three sons and a daughter talks of “finding ways to stay young, feel young Womens Alvin Kamara Jersey , recover, just be as efficient as possible, having the body operate as efficient as possible, doing all the little things to be as accurate as possible, be as quick as possible.”He takes an academic approach to learning about the effects of aging on the body and how to mitigate them.“I study all that stuff,” Brees said. “I feel like I’m pretty aware of what you lose with the aging process. So everything I do from a training perspective, from a recovery perspective, is to combat that. So you just try to stay ahead of that curve — right? — stay ahead of that curve. And so far, I feel like I’m beating it.”Last season, Brees passed for 3,992 yards, more than in any of his first five NFL seasons in San Diego, but fewer than any season since his arrival in New Orleans in 2006. The extent to which age contributed to his relative dip in yards passing is a matter of debate. The Saints’ offense has been oriented more toward running and short passes since the arrival of 2017 Offensive Rookie of the Year Alvin Kamara , and New Orleans has been one of the NFL’s top six rushing teams in each of the past two seasons.Meanwhile, Brees’ NFL record 74.4 completion percentage last season was complemented by a touchdown to interception ratio of 32-5, better than all but one QB: Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers (25-2).“Nothing’s changed Michael Thomas Saints Jersey ,” Sean Payton said when asked if he’s had to adapt play calling specifically because of Brees’ age. “It’s not like we’ve had to go in a different direction. Look, when we’ve been able to have balance on this team and play good defense and create turnovers, it’s been a pretty good formula for us.”Payton listed the 2006 season, when the Saints advanced to the NFC title game, and the 2009 season, when New Orleans won the Super Bowl, as examples of his more balanced teams.Brees looks slender, fit and spry as he moves about the offensive backfield on drop-backs and roll-outs.During Saturday’s practice, he connected with young receiver Cyril Grayson Jr. deep down the left side of the field, and shortly after followed that by finding new tight end Jared Cook on an out route of around 20 yards. Later, he whipped a side-arm throw around a defensive lineman and connected with new running back Latavius Murray.And while Payton has spoken of dialing back the workload of Brees and other established veterans during camp, the quarterback does not appear wanting for energy or stamina as he takes time after most practices to refine chemistry with receivers and work on what he calls the “nuances” of the passing game.“I can draw a route on paper, but then I can show you three different coverages where you’re running that route in three different ways, right?” Brees said. “So it’s just our understanding of seeing and feeling the same thing. And then just the trust that, hey, I know he’s going to be there … and he knows the ball’s going to be there and he knows the timing in which it’s going to be there. He knows when he’s got to speed it up. He knows when he can be patient.”As much as Brees says he still has to learn Marcus Davenport Jersey , it seems he has even more to teach.“I feel like I’ve lived it so many times that I know the way it’s supposed to look. I know the way it’s supposed to feel. I know the timing,” Brees said. “So as I sit there and communicate that to a young guy, I can sit there and just tell him story after story … that would back that up.“I like to think, when those guys listen to me, and I’m telling stories about this rep with Marques Colston, or this rep with Jimmy Graham, or this rep with Lance Moore — whoever it might have been — that there’s some credibility there, right?”Good luck finding anyone at Saints headquarters who would disagree with that.NOTES: Payton said DT Sheldon Rankins, who tore his Achilles tendon last season and began training camp on the physically unable to perform list, is “ahead of schedule” in his rehabilitation, but probably won’t be back before the end ofcamp. … LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda was among the guest observers at Saturday’s practice. … The contract holdout of top receiver Michael Thomas continued through a second practice. He can be fined $40,000 for each day missed.