Everyone seems a little more at ease......

by Philinwood on Nov 23, 2009 8:54 AM CST Comment 9 comments

I knew our boys would be fine. I knew it and then I knew it more when, before the Tampa game started, they showed Brees' rankings overall in pass completion %, yds per pass, red zone stats, etc. He was like #1 or #2 before the Tampa game and everyone was wondering "what's going on with Brees?" Well, I think there were 2 things going on with Brees. 1) He's in the NFL!!! For goodness sakes, he was ranked #1-2 in so many stats- he can't be perfect. and 2) his Mom died and I am sure he was getting wind of the investigation and all that stuff that I am sure could be quite distracting.

Now about The Patriots... we will win that game. But, it doesn't really matter. If we lose, we learn and we're better prepared if we meet them in the Super Bowl. But, I think we will win. They have a lot more at stake. If they go 6-4, AFC home field is looking a little bleaker. And they still have to deal with the Colts somewhere along the line. No, they have a lot more pressue on them. We have more offensive weapons and our defense forces more takeaways.

They are good, but we should be better than them if we play well. We're fine win or lose, but I have officially changed my approach. Previously actually wanted the Saints to lose a game to take any potential "monkey" off their backs. Now, I want them to win out, and I don't want to see them lose a game, but I am okay if they lose a game. And, for the record, this is the way I knew this team could play and expected them to play. This next game will be a lot of Payton/GW vs. Belicheck and I see Belicheck getting exposed. I also see the Dome Crowd playing a big role in The Perfect Storm playing havok with The Patriots

One last point. Our X-factor in our first 5-6 games was Heath Evans. He was phenomenal. We kind of forgot that, wondering why our offense was not so explosive after he got injured. Then along comes Dave Thomas and after a couple of games he settles in and becomes a new X-factor. But not quite at first. Much different than Evans. And Eckel is getting more comfortable,too. But just as Deuce Mc Allister would have had a little bit of a transition if he didn't have Mike Karney, I think our offense had a little transition period without Evans and now we have adjusted. We can't do the exact same things we used to do with Evans, but we have found other things that work. I think that was a big factor we overlooked. Kudos to Payton in that respect. He's coaching his best year ever. And obviously there is a transition without Moore a lot of these games, but overall we are adjusting and I like how we have done so.

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i hearby name dave thomas....

Baconator

by DrewBreesManCrush on Nov 23, 2009 10:02 AM CST reply actions 1 recs

LMAO!

from now on, I’m with you…

"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

by Cajun in CA on Nov 23, 2009 10:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

by next monday

we’ll have a few key players back in the mix. payton does a good job of game planning and so does GW. i hope they don’t play the “feel out” the first half and then “explode” in the second half. i’d prefer complete and total domination from the first kick off.

i agree that with a few players out of the rotation, some of the back ups needed a little bit of time to adjust and fit in with the scheme of things. i really think the saints will put on a peformance next monday. i have a feeling the pats are gonna come out flat. why? i have no idea, just a gut feeling. i’m going to predict a scuffle between brady and moss after multiple miscues between them. it’ll be fun.

cheers who dat nation! 10-0 feels good. 11-0 will feel better!

by nanvinnie on Nov 23, 2009 10:28 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

their record is mis leading

they are 5-1 at home but they are 1-3 on the road annd they aint played in our dome yet so i’m not as worried about them as i was about the falcons or the panthers.they dont even stack up to any of the great running teams we have played.their defense is not very good.but they do have brady moss and welker so the defense will have to play great pass defense

by simone219 on Nov 23, 2009 11:12 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

i meant 6-0 at home 1-3 on the road

by simone219 on Nov 23, 2009 12:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Everyone seems to be in wait-and-see mode

among the national media. The Saints—who have never been this good, and that’s a story in itself—are off to the best start in the NFC since the 1991 Washington Redskins, and their win against Tampa generated hardly a peep on the sports sites. The Colts going to 10-0…sure, that’s big news, because they’re a real team.

I don’t think the Saints will be taken seriously until (unless) they beat the Patriots. If they do, then sportswriters will swarm like cockroaches all over this bandwagon again. If they lose, they’ll all be tripping over each other to come up with better ways to say “mirage” or “illusion” or “a team in crisis.”

Super Bowl 44: "If you play in this league and it's not your goal, there's something wrong with you." -- Marques Colston

by MtnExile on Nov 23, 2009 11:15 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

The NFLNetwork.....

has only been talking about the Colts winning out. They still believe the Saints will lose one so they dont have to talk about them at all. The sunny beaches just dont want to give the Saints the respect they deserve. I dont know what it’s going to take ? Even if the Saints went 16-0, won the NFL championship and then put 40 on whoever they play in the Super Bowl, all those guys would say it was a fluke or a soft league this year. Totally torques my nuts and bolts.

by saint-sly on Nov 23, 2009 6:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I just heard some great comments on the Saints

from before the game on, NFL.com. I was so inspired, I almost brought a link to this site but I was sure everyone had seen it. It was really great. They blatantly complimented the team, and Brees specifically. I guess you might still be able to find it. It really was beautiful. So, no, I think the reasons you didn’t hear much is two: one is that there have been some really dumb statements by announcers that clearly don’t know the Saints well enough and, the second, is that it was expected (that’s what this nfl.com spot thought) to be humdrum, like 38 to 7. God, I love those numbers!!!! THAT’s domination!

by nofear on Nov 23, 2009 5:20 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I found the clip

It’s about six or seven pages back on NFL.com/videos. It’s the Insiders:Wk11. Pretty durned complimentary about the Saints and, definitely, about Drew. Actually, I liked Bobby Hebert’s comments about Drew. He’s like the Rhodes scholar quarterback.

WHO DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by nofear on Nov 23, 2009 6:26 PM CST reply actions 0 recs