Friday Football Hatefest!
by Hap Glaudi's Ghost on Sep 11, 2009 7:30 AM CDT
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PrintOh, football. Thank God you have returned. Now my work week can be filled with hate-filled emails among my friends and I can waste countless hours on my fantasy team. I'll be surprised if I get any work done until January. This column will be a look ahead at NFC South games and whatever else NFL-wise that interests me; mostly filled with hate but not always.
Wasn't it awesome when all those teams crap-canned their offensive coordinators right before the season started? Best part: Saints get to play two of the teams! Tampa fired Jeff Jagodzinski apparently because he didn't have a clue as to how to actually install an NFL offense. Tampa is going to be a car fire. Raheem Morris botched his most important hire as head coach. The Bucs actually have some talent and I fully expect the Glazer family to correct this disaster after the season. Until then, let's all enjoy the suck. The only downside is going to be having to listen to Cowboy fans run their fat mouths after the Boys destroy Tampa. Grgh.
Tampa and Buffalo are going to be in a steel cage death match to win the 2009 Fantasy Football Black Hole Award. The Fantasy Football black hole is where decent fantasy players get swallowed up and disappear into a pool of raw sewage never to be heard from again. Buffalo also told Turk Schonert to take the no huddle offense to Canada or something. The funniest thing about this was Schonert ripping Bills coach Dick Jauron after the firing. Schonert said Jauron kept telling him to simplify the offense. "He wants a 'Pop Warner' offense," Schonert said. "He limited me in formations, and limited me in plays. He's been on my back all offseason." Dude, if your boss tells you to do something for months on end and you don't do it...you get axed. The upside for the Saints...the Bills will now have a playbook about as deep as Super Tecmo Bowl. T.O. might go on a killing spree in upstate New York by Week 5. Joy.
Kansas City also fired their offensive coordinator but the Saints don't play the Chiefs and I don't have any of their players on my fantasy team so I don't give a crap! I'm honest.
Ok, now on to what we really care about: The Detroit Lions at the New Orleans Saints. The Saints get the added bonus of having Charles Grant and Will Smith. I fully expect the Saints to throttle Detroit. How can a team go 0-16 and not fire everyone in the building? Jesus. I guess they'll be better since Jim Schwartz isn't functionally challenged like Rod Marinelli. Still, they didn't change the roster too much from last year and they only had four games decided by less than a TD last season. Only Tennessee beat the Lions worse then the Saints did last year. Think about that. Sure the Saints played Detroit at the end when the Lions were already resigned to the defeated season but I re-watched the game for fun and the Saints could have scored sixty points. I swear to God.
I predict the Saints will look fantastic and the national media will completely ignore it. Oh and there will be a fantasy stampede for Mike Bell after he has a huge game because Pierre Thomas and Reggie Bush only get limited touches. Saints 49-17
Atlanta Falcons at Miami Dolphins: My prediction is that the Falcons start 0-3. They open with the Fish, then Carolina, then at New England. I guess Matt Ryan might not be going to Canton. Dolphins 28-17.
Philadelphia Eagles at Carolina Panthers: Let's all laugh as Jake continues the Panthers crappy preseason right into games that count! Steve Smith is going to punch someone in the face really soon! Eagles 21-18.
Dallas Cowboys at Tampa Bay Bucanneers: I actually think the Bucs will fight their ass off for three quarters but if you don't score you can't win. Cowboys 21-3.
It's finally here! Yes...
Saints video to make you appreciate Bobby Hebert
Twenty years ago the Saints opened the 1989 against the Dallas Cowboys. It was the dawn of the Jimmy Johnson/Jerry Jones era. Going off this performance you might think it was still born. The Cowboys were just beginning their 1-15 journey. Bobby Hebert started the game going 8 for 9, Dalton had a TD run and the Saints had scoring drives of ten and eight minutes in the first half. It was the classic Jim Mora team beat down. Like a barracuda squeezing the life out of its prey. Some guy named Derrick Shepard even ran a punt back to close out the first half. The 2009 Lions remind me a lot of the 1989 Cowboys...except there won't be three Super Bowls in the Lions' future.
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"Saints had scoring drives of ten and eight minutes in the first half."
I need a warm towel after reading that.
"It feels like a tiny prick " -Reggie Bush
Lions Roster
Don’t know if the new ones are any better, but the Lions actually did get rid of a bunch of people from last year.
on tampa's inevitable failure this season:
it sounds a lot like what everyone was saying about atlanta’s squad before last season—rookie qb and head coach, no real veteran leadership, etc. and they were expected to win like 3 games at best. i’m not suggesting the bucs are going to blow up everyone’s predictions and make it to the playoffs—i just am not ready to write those games off quite yet. every year they give us trouble.
atlanta, on the other hand, is coming back down to earth HARD this season. sorry, michael turner fantasy drafters—you should trade him before the rest of your league realizes he really wasn’t worth a first round pick.
Good point.
On the other hand with Atlanta they had a rookie head coach who actually had some experience, who had a resume of success in JAX before he moved up, and who didn’t fire his OC two weeks before the season started.
Then again, there are similarities. Both teams picked up a “backup” RB who was pretty good and should continue to be. Both teams drafted a QB of the future in the first round. Both rookie HCs came from a defensive background. And both teams have fairly strong OLs as well.
But on the flip side, Atlanta last year had Detroit to use as a chew toy for their opener. Detroit last year could have made the Raiders look good. But nobody truly expected them to be THAT bad before the season started, so Atlanta got a huge morale boost by taking them to the woodshed in that first game and they had something to build on. TB this year has Dallas. And I don’t think there’s anybody who would think there is any chance that Dallas goes 0-16 this year…
So I do think TB is going down. But I don’t think they are that bad (not that I wouldn’t love it if they were of course) and I expect they’ll bounce back the next year.
about that trade...
i’ll be the judge of that after week 1, as of right now he’s still my RB1
I do agree with you though that Atlanta will come back down to Earth very hard. No playoffs, no defense, and an offense that can’t carry the load all season. 7-9 Falcons!!!
I love the hate.
Not to nit pick but the Lions actually have like 31 new players that weren’t on their roster last year (as per CSC article “Interview with the Enemy”. Also, Miami is at Atlanta.
Other than that you got me misty-eyed for the Domers. I just hope Mike Bell has a Dalton like year and represents the #21. Now let’s go and knock some snot outta the Lions !!
by WhoDat_OH on Sep 11, 2009 8:25 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
That game link is awesome
Where do you find stuff like that? Now I’ve got something to do in between the hours of “productivity” and the hours of destructive late night behavior to really look forward to.
My bad
What I meant to say about the Lions is they didn’t really make any huge or exciting moves in free agency. They did sign a washed up Larry Foote and fork in his back Julian Peterson though.
As for my tampa pick…I’m very confident the Lions will be better than the Bucs this year…
by Hap Glaudi's Ghost on Sep 11, 2009 9:06 AM CDT reply actions
Well...
Lions fans better hope this new head coach had his daughter marry a defensive-minded fella…
Oh, snap!
by hakimdropstheball on Sep 11, 2009 9:20 AM CDT reply actions
I'm ready to see
Steve Smith and Heinz Ward in a Celebrity Deathmatch welterweight boxing bout already. Why hasn’t Ward converted to LB yet, anyway, so he could wear number 57?
BE - U - TEE - Full
How bout them fans and their noise!!
Big thxs to HAP. Links or Info on how you made this happwood be much preciated.
The game list link
Since all you boys asked here it is…
http://www.saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113823
I’ll be spotlighting games and cool links all year
by Hap Glaudi's Ghost on Sep 11, 2009 11:06 AM CDT reply actions
Oops ...... soooorrrrry
Can you tell I’m a newbie ?
by WhoDat_OH on Sep 11, 2009 2:26 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Started watching that game
I could watch the first half with my coffee every morning. I think it would make me a more balanced individual. Love the vintage Madden commentary. Favorite I heard: “When it comes to dinkin’, there’s nobody better than the Saints.” He also had a good explanation on how, if you see a coordinator with his headphones off, you know his thoughts are coming from his brain, not from his headphones. I miss that guy.
You know, I liked one comment in particular about how we really didn’t have any great players on that roster, but they played a swarming defense where everybody did their job and they all worked as a team to overachieve in a big way. And that’s a pretty accurate statement. Yeah we all love the Dome Patrol but they were thought of as so great not just because they were really good but also almost as much because you didn’t think they should be (at first glance).
In other words, we had a team of Lunch Pails, yet they were one of the best defenses in the league and certainly the best we ever had (before or since).
If a good coach and players who believed in him could overachieve that much before, why can’t we do it again?
Be sure to check out
the Saints @ Jets game from 1980, the team’s only victory that season. It’s played in the snow. Tony Galbreath scores twice, including the winning TD late. If you look closely, you should be able to spot a few bagheads in the stands. Though, they could just as easily be Jets fans mimicking our trademark schtick that year, as they were 3-11 themselves at the time. Of note, Richard Todd is the Jets starting QB. He would go on to QB the Saints four years later under Bum Phillips. Dick Stanfel is the interim head coach, Dick Nolan having been fired a week or two prior. Archie Manning is our QB in what was his finest season statistically. This, of course, is because he was always playing from behind. The game takes place in old Shea Stadium in Flushing (Queens) NY. On the Monday night prior to this game, John Lennon was shot to death about 15 miles away, just to put it all into some type of historical perspective. The game received quite a bit of national attention going in due to the futility of the two teams. It was dubbed “The Toilet Bowl” by late night talk show king Johnny Carson, thereby making the Flushing location even more fitting.
"It feels like a tiny prick " -Reggie Bush
My brother lives in Flushing
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by Dave Cariello on Sep 11, 2009 2:34 PM CDT up reply actions
I can't wait to see us win the division
What I wanna know is why the national media is still so high on the dirty birds, panthers, and bucs. I mean it takes a lot to ignore what the Saints did in the offseason and preseason. We may wind up being the only team in the division with a winning record. It seems like every analyst has no hope or care for us. I like being under the radar, but I’d also appreciate a little more respect from the national media rather than listening for 15 straight minutes about Troy Polamalu’s injury and what an MCL is. I’ve also come to the conclusion that Pat Yasinskas is the most biased ESPN NFL Blogger. He has been sniffing the jock straps of all 3 other teams, but when it comes to the Saints, everything is minimal. And I have a question. In what way has Matt Ryan merited himself as a future Hall of Famer? He looked pretty average last year, Michael Turner is what made him look good. HYPE. That’s all i have to say.
Saints Underdog's
Hey LocoSaint. I want them to Not talk about the Saints. Let them put us down, let them not talk. Then when we go out and beat the living hell out of every single team, they will tread us like they did in 06". They never gave us credit, not enough anyway. But This is a team on both sides of the ball. Yeah I may have high hopes, but I want us to not get the hype and then crush everything in the path. They will see, the world will see, the other teams will see, We are not to be toyed with. The Saints are comming, and I know it, I can feel it.
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