Guys, just to let you know.. Scott Shanle just missed the cut on my list. Although since his mediocre play isn’t as glaring as bad safeties he is sometimes overlooked.
And please if you find any cool youtube Saints link pass them on to Dave or me by email and I’ll add them to my column and give you the props for finding it.

C’mon, now we haven’t an idea if he will indeed start and Steve Smith is lighting him up already? I know your the only jaded saints fan alive but Darren deserves a little more respect than that…

Aren’t we all just about out of ways to rip poor Jason David. I thought of adding him but I doubt he will make the team.
As for Tommy Morstead…while I can work up anger over the Saints trading up to draft a punter, I really hope the punter is a huge topic during the year because if we’re bitching aboutt he punter bigtime in November, then it will be a dam good year I think

I would’ve put Morestead on this list somewhere. Not sure about Shanle or David; David probably won’t make the team and Shanle’s contract is up in ‘10 and I doubt he’ll get resigned. I mean, the 2nd day of the draft, I was ripping out my hairs when we traded away a pick for next year’s draft to get a punter, when we really needed an OLB. Morestead could actually be a phenomenal punter (dude’s huge and has a power leg), but remember we were all thinking the same thing last year about that Nebraska kicker (I am serious, I forgot his name) we wasted a pick on. Never mind, Taylor Melhaff, now I remember.

Also, once Garrett Hartley starts missing crucial FG’s, there’s no doubt he’ll be the top hated player.

As for Sharper, once he starts slowing down, I think they’ll put Malcolm Jenkins in his spot. Call me crazy, but I’d like to see the team test out Chip Vaughn at OLB. He’s huge, fast, puts a hurting on opposing offenses, and safeties that big usually make nice transitions at OLB. I’d rather see him than Shanle at the WILL spot.

I wouldn’t worry about Bush or Shockey. Shockey’s healthy and surprisingly determined to work hard and prove himself this year.

Bush isn’t going to get the bulk of the RB carries this year, and that has always led to him getting injured. PT will be the head honcho, and it’ll be like ‘06 all over, that whole Thunder N’ Lightning thing.

As for the backup QB situation, hopefully next year’s draft we’ll pick up a nice young QB to groom under Brees. We’ll have six picks (and if we’re lucky, compensatory picks…?) and I think we’ll continue to go Defense (DE, OLB particularly), and some OL help, and a QB.

it was a good post Hap. Hope that none of it really happens but we aren’t called the ‘Aints for nothing. I think if something happens it will be Shockey, Williams, or the Houser situation. If we don’t do good on defense this year(barring a lot of injuries) then Williams will get the blame. I don’t think it will happen though. I do expect a few long bombs at times though. You can’t be as aggressive as what we think he will be and not have it happen. Houser…well the other guy is a 10 year pro or something like that. Hoping it won’t happen but hey, at least we make it into the playoffs if this happens. Shockey…well this wouldn’t be a surprise. I expect to see no more than 5 tds for him and maybe if he is lucky he will own 1 team for 100 yards. So, I see his stats(if healthy) as being 640 yards and 4 TDs. Decent, but nothing that Miller couldn’t do and we lost our 2nd round pick on him. Anyways, I hope nothing bad happens but maybe we could trade Shockey for a 2nd and 3rd round pick if he does good this year? at least a 2 and 5.

Wow, Hap, just when I think you couldn’t possibly prove yourself more ignorant, you go and post something this stupid…

Does Fred Thomas in 2006 ring a bell?

Were you even watching a single game in 2006? Fred was quite good — or certainly at least above adequate — early on that year. He didn’t rack up the most tackles of ANY player in our secondary that year by sucking, nor did he rack up 10 PDs and an INT by being the worst CB in the universe. Obviously McKenzie was better and the opponents tried to throw away from him, but Fred took down quite a few of those who caught balls in his vicinity. But then came the Steelers game (even more reason to loathe them, as if I didn’t already have enough beforehand) and he missed three games then played hurt the rest of the year. And just like Cromartie last year, he sucked at it.

And the result was of course the Jason David fiasco. We all thought we were just another good CB away from having enough D to get us over the hump. Or at least I sure did. How wrong we all were. But despite the fact that we did play some extremely pathetic opponents that year, our D was pretty decent until Fred got hurt, and it still wasn’t that horrible even afterward — or at least it didn’t appear so at first. The huge holes only became apparent afterwards, after we’d played a few real teams instead of the college intramural squads we faced in 2006.

Coldpizza, your play by play post was well..awesome.

Still Friar Bob, Fred Thomas was absolutely was the target of Saints fans hate the second half of 2006.

The guy was done as a player. He was giving up more scores than Courtney Love on a bender in South Beach.

Listen, hate has nothing to do with facts, reason, substance, or even rational thought.

And do not doubt somebody will be hated by Saints fans in 2009 that plays for the team…happens every year.