{"id":373537,"date":"2026-08-17T10:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:06:52","slug":"morning-break-zach-wilson-shines-saints-show-promise-in-preseason-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373537\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Break: Zach Wilson shines, Saints show promise in preseason opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints absolutely, positively will take it.\u00a0There were scratchy spots (as expected) in Saturday&#8217;s preseason opener against Jacksonville in the Caesars Superdome, in which a 20-6 halftime lead wove its way into a 24-20 loss. But there were unquestionably enough bright spots conjured by Saints for justifiable optimism. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/new-orleans-saints-stack-noteworthy-performances-in-preseason-opener-against-jacksonville\" title=\"New Orleans Saints stack noteworthy performances in preseason opener against Jacksonville\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defense puts on a show during first preseason game of the 60th season of Saints football. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/key-observations-from-saints-jaguars-preseason-game-2026\" title=\"Key observations from Saints-Jaguars preseason game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the top players from both teams sitting out following a beneficial joint practice Thursday, the New Orleans Saints lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-20 at the Caesars Superdome on Saturday in the teams&#8217; opening game of the 2026 preseason. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/2026-nfl-preseason-week-1-jacksonville-jaguars-vs-new-orleans-saints-game-recap\" title=\"Game Recap: Jacksonville Jaguars 24, New Orleans Saints 20 | 2026 NFL Preseason Week 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints absolutely, positively will take it.\u00a0There were scratchy spots (as expected) in Saturday&#8217;s preseason opener&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,8943,42800],"class_list":["post-373537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-latest-news","tag-morning-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}