Colston out 4-6 Weeks with Thumb Injury

well…..bummer

This could be a weird sort of advantage for the Saints, depending on how well Meachem plays (I’m assuming he’ll be activated). There’s two seasons’ worth of highlight reels on Colston for opponents to study and prepare for; what do they have on Meachem? Nothing. What can you expect from him? Who knows. How do you prepare to face him? Search me.

Meachem is nearly as big as Colston and as fast as Henderson. He has good hands. He could fill that hole very nicely in the short term. In the long term, he’s got to be the Saints #2, unless Henderson’s catch against the Bucs was the debut of Devery 2.0.

Well, at least it’s a somewhat minor injury and he’ll be back by midseason. This means Meachem should get some playing time and Devery will definitely get more work and opportunities to prove he can catch the ball consistently. I just added Devery to my FF team, so I’ll go ahead and gamble that he will step up and fill the void left by Colston. Devery 2.0 sounds good to me. Let’s hope he has learned to always catch the ball with his hands instead of his body.

we’ll be okay- lots of depth – patten, moore, shockey, henderson, meachem, reggie, pierre, stecker, campbell, they can all keep the passing game very effective and we just have to make sure the ground game works well. high hopes for meachem ….. joe horn is still available for a month or so………….

oh, yeah and i forgot Copper also- nothing wrong with him!! these guys are all very good receivers, true pros…. and with Brees throwing the ball they all have the ability to make GREAT plays!!

Opportunity knocks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKUwcCp7LPE

This sucks a fat 1. Time to man up boy’s. At least we have 1 or 2 or 12 talented players who are hungry

We are going to win the superbowl.

This “could” be the time for DH to shine but we’ll see. I’m looking forward to seeing Meachum bring it.

I had Brady and Colston! Obviously I’m keeping Colston. I do have Favre and thank God I started him instead of brady this week, but still, I picked up devery just in case but man. My team is screwed

Marques Colston (thumb surgery) will be in a cast for four weeks before he is even able to resume practicing.
This seemingly lends credence to John Clayton of ESPN’s report that Colston would probably take six weeks, rather than just a month, to get healthy. Sep. 10 – 5:30 p.m. ET
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune

…no can do. I won’t get ANY kind of hope up for Devery. I think a pro player in any given sport is blossoming the 4th years into his career. Along the process the player gets better every year, which is not Henderson’s case. And what a shame that is…

The guy is probably one of the top 5 fastest WR in the league and CAN catch a football but, as we’ve seen from the beginning, he’s just plain scared…How could you otherwise explain his stupendous ratio of catches on deep balls over his drops under 10 yds. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not judging the man’s heart. Hell, I’d probably do in my pants too seeing Bob Sanders aiming for me after a short completion!

That beeing said, maybe the coaching staff should consider using him as a special weapon like they start doing again with Reggie.

But the thing that troubles me the most is not undertanding why Sean seems to be holding a gruge against a young man who has done everything to deserve wearing a shirt on Sundays.

as far as DH, we can use him to his strength. everytime he lines up on the outside,it’s a concern for the defense. just his speed means that it’s a one on one or the safety is shitting knowing he has to be available to help, that can be exploited. and, although i have been disappointed with him and actually wanted him traded or cut this year, he can and will bean asset, even if he is just a decoy and i think he will be much more than that. he will help patten moore, reggie, shockey, copper and meachum to have more man coverage if Payton plays his cards right. and Meachum will work out and I don’t think Payton has a problem with him, he will be activated and he will play good. The Saints have more weapons that almost any team- maybe every team and most of their weapons know the system for 2-3 years and that wil help. i think it’s more likely that meachum didn’t play because they had so many wideouts with experience who knew the system better than Meachum.

hattin on Hollywood Joe “call me in the endzone” Horn. He’s still one of my favorite Saints. He had a bad divorce but Bobby Hebert ended up with the Stank Birds too. Save that hate for D “Drop Man” Henderson. I agree though that anytime he lines up on the end he could be going for a 70 yarder and with Shocky on the other side ain’t no tellin what’s bout to happen. See like my mama say God works in mysterious ways, Who this will really help in the long run is Pierre Thomas. Now they will have to line Bush up as a wide out, bringing in both Deuce and Thomas on some ol bruiser ass backfield like back in the day. How many y’all remember Thunder and Lighting Chuck Muncie and Tony Galbraith? Man we in good shape fa sho ya heard!