Teams just need to push a non-stop, aggressive pass rush to defeat them. Why only the Dolphins and Cowboys have been able to figure this out so far is beyond me.

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(psssst, NOLA. Did you understand that?)

Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?

With a side of “we’re doomed.” I never put a loss down in indeliable ink before we play the game, but things don’t look very good for us right now.

Cooking everything, even the things you don’t eat. Bet that makes paperwork difficult.

1) Don’t run them at the middle of the line and you should be fine. Jamaal Anderson has morphed into a scary defensive tackle who is nimble enough to make the stop 9 times out of 10. I’m very worried about our ability to handle runs to the outside.

2) Abandon hope, all ye who defend against Brees. The only thing we can do is hit him and try to put ourselves in a good position for picks.

3) Ryan handles blitzes very well most of the time. That said, if we don’t get the ground game going, he’s going to be getting hit all game, and no quarterback in the league deals well with that.

4) The secondary is the biggest area of concern, followed by our rushing attack. Both of those have been hit with a critical injury, so I’m concerned.

I can’t figure out Turner. Many blame it on the offensive line, but if that’s the case, why is Jason Snelling averaging well over five yards a carry?

So we can watch him throw a fit on the sideline when DeCoud nabs an interception right in front of him.

Seriously, I’m much more concerned about our ability to cover Marques Colston than Shockey, though every single one of your weapons is an issue for us. Could be a long game for our defense.

And I would also point to a schedule that is light years more difficult than 2008’s, as well as Michael Turner’s bizarre backslide. We’re just not there yet.

Rec’d it

You know that your welcome to come to the dome
But when we’re all done we’ll send you home.
You come on down and things will be fine but
I’ve heard Cool Brees say" your ass is mine".
Reggie say’s he’d bet a few bucks and
bust you up like a school of wild ducks.
And just when you think you’ve entered pure hell
We’ll let loose our ace, a man named Mike Bell
Our receivers are quick and burn you to toast
You’ll be grasping at air and think you see ghost
Our offense is awesome and our defense is Keen
I think you’ll find out, there down right mean.
So, come on down and lets have some fun
cause nothing else taste like a bird on a bun

hey

whats up with falcons losing to the weak ass nfc east i can understand the bucs and panthers losing to them but i thought the falcons were better then that were averaging 48 points a game against the nfc east

geaux saints

That was in a FanPost about Keith Brooking, not the loss to the Cowboys. I understand you’ve come over for some friendly trash talk, but if you can’t see why stuff like that riles up fans who just went through a bad loss, then I don’t know what else I can tell you.

Here’s to a good game, though.

We’re going to replace all our wide receivers with linebackers. I hope you’re as excited as I am about Mike Peterson running some slants!

And hell, we’re all a little rough around the edges. We’re sports fans, after all.

And I’ll be the first to admit that I was wrong about Ryan. I really thought he would be another in a long line of bust QBs for us, and I was disgusted that a general manager who promised us help along the offensive and defensive lines would throw away a pick on Ryan.

I’m a little sheepish about that now, of course. Who knows where his ceiling is, but Ryan’s already a pretty good young QB.

And don’t call me Shirley.

Our secondary looked painfully bad this week, all the way around. We have a bunch of young cornerbacks with a ton of potential who make boneheaded mistakes, and our safeties can’t pick up the slack by themselves. I fear for the future.

I just turn the other cheek! Ha!

1) Enormously excited. Even if the game is sure to be challenging and many have already chalked us up as a loss, there’s something about being sure that you’re playing the best team in the league at any given moment that’s pretty awesome. If we should win, that’d be even better.

2) We are heading your way. I think my brother-in-law (a Patriots fan….boo, hiss) summed it up best when he told me the other day that the first game he saw the Saints potentially losing was in the Georgia Dome weeks away from now. I’m apprehensive, but again, it’s exciting.

3) I’m kind of in no-man’s land right now. Coming off a bad loss, one part of me believes the Falcons will rebound in spectacular fashion, while the other half believes they’ll have trouble coming into Nawlins strong. I’ll get a better sense of how I’m feeling by the weekend.

4) Brian Williams, cornerback, is out for the year, and that’s a killer. Wicked fast running back Jerious Norwood is out for the game. We are dinged up at a few other positions, as well, including a potentially lingering chest injury for Michael Turner. Oh, and then there’s rookie defensive tackle Peria Jerry, who is out for the year. Some tough breaks for us.

I’ve GOT to start previewing before I post!

1) Nah. We still love Hebert, despite his disgusting attachment to your team.

2) I’d say a 5. He’s grown enough to be serviceable, but he’s not the star we hoped he’d be by now.

3) Throwback red, without a doubt.

4) Yes. I’d say he’ll retire in 2011.

5) Of course. I love Norwood, but he can’t stay healthy and Bush is such a pass-catching threat. This is assuming we didn’t have to take on the rest of his gigantic contract, of course…

6) I don’t think so. I love Finn, but he’s been through two major leg surgeries and is just serviceable at this point. Jenkins is one of the best blocking receivers in the league.

7) You can call me a fool….but I’ve never done that. Or been to a Hootie and the Blowfish concert. And so forth.

8) Har har. If I could shift it, I’d head for the NFC West, with dreams of a cotton candy schedule dancing in my head.

9) He hasn’t done much. I’ll give it a solid “meh.”

10) Definitely Patrick Kerney. I’d love to have the pass rush he provided again on a consistent basis.

1) I won’t go that far. I will say that we’ve done very well since the 2007 fiasco, and I’m happy with that. That was a tough year.

2) Oh man, that’s tough. The obvious answer would be Drew Brees, but I do think Matty Ice is the man now and will continue to be later, so it wouldn’t make sense to bring an admitted upgrade over an already potentially great young quarterback. I’d have to say Marques Colston. That man can sense a pass coming from 10 miles away.

3) That’s a better question for one of our readers closer to the action, but they’re both pretty damn loud. I’ve seen my fair share of penalties caused by crowd in both domes.

4) I wouldn’t say like a girl. More like a mountain lion.

5) Is that a question or a statement? My rage is everlasting.

6) Not yet, but it’s getting there in a hurry. Last week’s setback might dampen that for a little bit.

7) I think you guys win it something like 35-24. We’ll see.

8) Very awesome. In fact, I hope it happens.

9) BOO DAT? I got nothing.

10) Turner is, Norwood’s out. Now we got your former boy Aaron Stecker to help us out, though I doubt he’ll have much of a role.

Mike Smith might be talking about him getting more carries, but it’s one of those classic “I’ll believe it when I see it” moments. My expectations for Snelling are something like 12 carries for 50 yards, 2 catches for 15 yards and maybe a TD. You’re rolling the dice, my friend.

A few RB suggestions, based on who’s available in my 12 team leagues:

Shonn Greene
Justin Fargas
Correll Buckhalter
Le’Ron McClain
Jerome Harrison
Justin Forsett
Heath Evans
Chad Simpson
Garrett Wolfe
Lawrence Vickers
Jacob Hester
Jason Wright
Brandon Jackson
Michael Bush

I excluded players with a bye in Week 8. Evans might be worth a shot. He seems to be getting red zone work. Even this past week, he came pretty close to punching it in.

Old timers might say 49ers, but I know my hatred of the Bucs transcends what I’m able to summon up for the Saints.

Is illustrated perfectly by the way I nodded my head throughout your comment, thinking about how that would be my night terror if the situation was reversed. Do you think we frequently abused fans will ever learn to embrace success without suspicion?

That’s basically what happened in 1992, aside from the 14 wins and home field throughout.

time for some blocking practice

That was a half-assed attempt, but in the end it was one bad block of the many he picked up in the game and throughout the season. It was just more obvious due to the end-result

Only when someone praises him undeservedly. So yeah, pretty much every post on this site.

;)

11. What is the deal with Atlanta taking old Saints players and trying to use them against us? It’s awful. Hebert, Horn, and now Stecker. It’s like Atlanta secretly loves New Orleans.

1) Nah. I think Reggie’s major problem is that he doesn’t hit the hole hard enough and run with enough power. Forget the Kardashians, forget his MVP talk and forget the hand-wringing over his role. If he was able to fix those issues, I think he’d be much better off. Just my uninformed opinion.

2) Gonzalez, and it’s not even close.

3) He looked washed up with us, locker room leadership aside. I love the guy and I’m glad he’s doing well this season, but I don’t think he’s got more than maybe one more season in the tank and he was blocking younger players.

4) Won’t be the Falcons, since there’s only a small handful of them currently on Twitter. Let’s say the Patriots, because Tom Brady tweets his lack of love for football and dreams of pursuing a para-sailing career.

5) They pressured Matt Ryan, beat up our offensive line and played an aggressive brand of football that victimized our secondary. There’s some more words n’ stuff for ya, xencuts!

6) A little bit of both. Michael Jenkins and Brian Finneran should be familiar names, but Marty Booker is elderly and Eric Weems is a newcomer. Now you know.

7) Sadly, no. I’ll be working through the game, so I’ll have to get my watching in when I can.

8) Nope, Boston Celtics fan. I have a very weird background. Don’t ask.

9) If you’re in the ATL, you don’t eat sushi. You eat entire cows smothered in Coca-Cola.

10) Hey, thanks!

11) We just love what it does to Saints fans. Such delicious sadness!

broke it off with Reggie cause he didn’t measure up…………………………

He’s over-concerned with the Kardashians.

Someone a little closer to Atlanta could answer better than I, probably.

Stujoooooooooooooooo! Please come home…again!

You guys are doing the lord’s work over there. Since you’ve invited me, I guess I’ll have to try my hand writing something…..

1) But they could still go 10-6 (with likely losses to the Giants and maybe the Jets) and squeak in, so I don’t think it’s a killer. It wouldn’t help, though.

2) Better!

3) I’ll assume you mean crossing those games out of the schedule. In that case, I’d say 10-4 or 9-5. I am operating under the assumption that we’re going to lose both games, but I think they’ll both be tough, competitive contests.

Jets I think are overhyped, but the Giants are still a very good team that’s maybe struggling a little now. Doesn’t make it any less impressive that you beat them down like that.

I think your biggest potential weakness is whether the defense can continue to do what it’s been doing. Is this real, long-lasting improvement, or is it a short-term thing? My money’s on the former, but you never know. And yes, I still believe PT is better than Bell, even if Sean Payton doesn’t.

sports gambling would collapse.

Are you playing all those lines?

Typing while sleepy is bad. . .

we received the ball and ran it in for a touchdown! So, at one point in time the Saints had scored EVERY time they had the ball! However, I believe we lost the game.

Kind of like “tying the world record” in bowling by rolling a strike in the first frame?