Fleur-de-Links: October 25, 2011
by David "Satch" Kelly on Oct 25, 2011 4:00 PM CDT
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The film study shows more of what we knew, the New Orleans Saints were dominant in every way against Indy - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
Weekly break down of the Saints game
Peyton Manning's injury has sent Colts into historic freefall - Don Banks - SI.com
Just two short years ago, the top story as the NFL's regular season unfolded was the Indianapolis Colts and their pursuit of a perfect record. The Colts opened that year 14-0, and then inspired a national debate by taking their foot off the gas after Christmas, choosing to rest their players for the playoffs rather than chase perfection.
FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | Week 7 DVOA Ratings
After the Saints stomped the Colts 62-7, I thought they were going to have one of the best single-game DVOA ratings of all-time. I thought they might even challenge the all-time best game, Pittsburgh's 145.6% DVOA in their 43-0 Week 1 win over expansion Cleveland in 1999. However, it turns out the Saints don't even come close to making the all-time top ten. In fact, they don't even have the best game of the week. Instead, Houston puts up the best single-game DVOA of the year at 122.7%, while New Orleans is "only" at 71.1%.
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That right there was some goooood Manning Face.
Hakim Drops the Ball!: NFL Power Rankings (Week 7 - 2011)
2. New Orleans Saints (5-2), (Satch note: These are easily the most interesting NFL rankings on the web. Love that Kate Upton pic! I'd love to fleur her di lis!)
New Orleans Saints blowout of Indianapolis got you big fantasy numbers | NOLA.com
Weekly wrap up from Sunday's games
Breesy Beefy Mac: the recipe sensation that's sweeping the Who Dat Nation | NOLA.com
The Ritz-Carlton's Davenport Lounge will add chef Emily Dillport's recipe to its weekly tailgate menu
NFL power rankings: New Orleans Saints move up but Green Bay holds top spot, what are your rankings? - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
3. (7) New Orleans Saints 5-2 Was there a record the Saints didn't break?
New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton Monday Media Q&A (Oct. 24, 2011)
62-7 reflects difference in past, present for Saints
Saints play perfect tune to embarrass tone-deaf Colts
New Orleans Saints DE Will Smith Media Q&A (Oct. 24, 2011)
NFC South Stock Watch - NFC South Blog - ESPN
1. Pete Carmichael, offensive coordinator, Saints. With Sean Payton nursing his injured leg up in the press box, Carmichael got to call the plays for the entire game for the first time in his career. He obviously did pretty well as the Saints scored on their first nine possessions. Carmichael has kept a low profile and he’s a quiet guy. But he’s known and respected throughout the league. It looks like he’ll continue calling the plays for some time. That should only raise his profile and his name could start coming up in some conversations about head-coaching jobs.
NFL Power Rankings Week 8 - National Football League - ESPN
3. Saints - After hammering Indianapolis by 55 points, the Saints tee up the winless Rams in Week 8. (Sando)
Week Seven power rankings | ProFootballTalk
4. Saints (No. 9; 5-2): Maybe Sean Payton should spend every game in the booth.
In Week 7, Passing Defenses Continue to Show Pop - NYTimes.com
As for the Saints, all of their aspirations remain in front of them. They remain a top Super Bowl contender, and Drew Brees’s presence means they can beat any team in the league.
New Orleans Saints respond in an epic way to Sean Payton's call to live up to their potential - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
Saints news and notes
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is a master at work and is getting better at his craft - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
He might not get the national recognition of a Tom Brady, but he's off to the best start in his career
Payton won’t say if he’ll call plays from booth | ProFootballTalk
Saints offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael called his first game on Sunday night against the Colts. It worked out fairly well: The team won 62-7. Head coach Sean Payton isn't saying whether Carmichael will keep the role in the short term while Payton watches the game from the coaches booth.
Forecast: Saints turn the blowout into art | wwltv.com New Orleans
The New Orleans Saints did more to improve baseball ratings Sunday night than any player in the World Series. The Saints unleashed the most severe beating any team in their history has delivered and had America changing the channel to the Fall Classic
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Out Of Bounds... by Jabari Greer: Vengence Is Mine, Son! - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
New Orleans Saints cornerback Jabari Greer's weekly blog, exclusive to The Times-Picayune
Around the NFC South - NFC South Blog - ESPN
Time for a look at the top headlines from around the NFC South. Tampa Bay running back Earnest Graham will have surgery to repair his Achilles tendon
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Guess who leads NFL in drops? - NFC South Blog - ESPN
The Bucs have moved into a three-way tie (with the Bears and Browns) for the league lead in team drops. Tampa Bay receivers have dropped 15 passes, according to ESPN Stats & Information. The Bucs are led by Mike Williams, who now has five drops. Arrelious Benn and tight end Kellen Winslow each have three drops.
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Love the Beefy Mac story as much as anyone.
But knew that Payton might have found out who was to blame. Payton loved telling that story and didn’t think ahead that the hotel was going to get a bad rep from this and it might not be their fault.
"I am a Saints player. Look, sir" Patrick Robinson
by CrazyforColston on Oct 25, 2011 4:19 PM CDT reply actions
Football Outsiders is terrible
Not only is the information they present often outdated or just wrong, apparently the Saints had the 2nd best DVOA last weekend? What is DVOA supposed to show anyway? Just terrible.
I don't know what DVOA is.
I was hoping one of you could tell me. I’ve found some of their articles to be interesting. I guess we gotta take the bad with the good sometimes.
"As soon as Tony (Dungy) said we had no chance, I knew we had 'em right where we wanted 'em"--Coach Sean Payton right after Super Bowl XLIV with the Lombardi Trophy firmly in hand. WHO DAT!!
by David "Satch" Kelly on Oct 25, 2011 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Drew's Victories Overlooked by A**holes
Just kidding. I have no idea.
INGRAMANIA equals LOMBARDI 2012
by cajuncommando58 on Oct 25, 2011 5:12 PM CDT up reply actions
That's pretty clever.
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by Dave Cariello on Oct 25, 2011 5:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Defensive Value something something
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WIN NOW
WINGRAMANIA!!!!
by Hans Petersen on Oct 25, 2011 5:34 PM CDT up reply actions
this is what happens when some hackers get together to analyze football tendencies..
DVOA: The main statistic used on Football Outsiders, DVOA breaks down the entire season play-by-play, comparing success on each play to the league average based on a number of variables including down, distance, location on field, current score gap, quarter, and opponent quality. While it can be used as a measure of total team performance, it differs from other power ratings found throughout the Web because it can be broken down to analyze team effectiveness in any number of ways: down, quarter, rushing vs. receiving, location on field, passes to backs vs. passes to receivers, and so on. Read the article METHODS TO THE MADNESS for more information. DVOA stands for Defense-adjusted Value Over Average, although we use the same letters to refer to defensive rankings which are adjusted to take into account the quality of offensive opponents. When not adjusted for opponent, this stat is called VOA.
by the 9th plague on Oct 25, 2011 6:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Makes sense.
They basically take the performance the offense had, and try to value how good or bad the opposing defense is. The better the defense, the better the performance. Since the Colts had such a horribad defense, the Saints offense got docked.
Bring back Aaron Brooks! He's the only one who can save us from the evil that is Drew Brees!!
Maybe Drew...
took out his anger on the Colts over not having his Beefy Mac. If so, we need to find more ways to screw around with his pregame diet.
"As soon as Tony (Dungy) said we had no chance, I knew we had 'em right where we wanted 'em"--Coach Sean Payton right after Super Bowl XLIV with the Lombardi Trophy firmly in hand. WHO DAT!!
by David "Satch" Kelly on Oct 25, 2011 5:07 PM CDT reply actions
Thanks for doing the links again Satch!
Bring back Aaron Brooks! He's the only one who can save us from the evil that is Drew Brees!!
No problem
"As soon as Tony (Dungy) said we had no chance, I knew we had 'em right where we wanted 'em"--Coach Sean Payton right after Super Bowl XLIV with the Lombardi Trophy firmly in hand. WHO DAT!!
by David "Satch" Kelly on Oct 26, 2011 9:36 AM CDT up reply actions
I really liked that NYTimes / fifth-down-blog article because of this bit:
There have been two games in the history of the regular season to end with the score 62-7. Both games happened in New Orleans, with a dejected Manning on the losing team’s sideline wishing for better teammates.
I found the connection “then and now” to be quite funny, and I liked the way they wrote it up. I also chuckled a bit at finding yet another reason — not that we really need more — to hate the foulclowns.
The “62-7 reflects difference in past, present for Saints” article also reflects on this. I guess since our early years were so bad, karma is paying us back with some really good years now. Coming into this season, we led the NFC in wins over the last five years. And yet, ESPN still considers us an afterthought.
"As soon as Tony (Dungy) said we had no chance, I knew we had 'em right where we wanted 'em"--Coach Sean Payton right after Super Bowl XLIV with the Lombardi Trophy firmly in hand. WHO DAT!!
by David "Satch" Kelly on Oct 26, 2011 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions
Extra Silly Pundits spouting Nonsense
ESPsN ©
INGRAMANIA equals LOMBARDI 2012
by cajuncommando58 on Oct 26, 2011 9:50 AM CDT up reply actions
Speaking of Karma…
Did you hear Ndamukong Suh’s comments about the alleged taunting of the Falcoons and that he guesses it was Karma for all the bad things they’ve done?
Me to Suh: You better watch your mouth boy! Because of all the illegal, late s*** you do, Karma’s gonna kick you in the ass extra hard one day soon.
What a bunch of quivering vaginas the Foulclowns are. I’d be downright embarrased to complain about trashtalking at any level of football. What a puss.
In Breesus' name we play
by Breesus Christ Superstar on Oct 27, 2011 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions
I had to laugh at the Suh trash talking story.ESPN on monday night seemed to have the opinion that the Falcons were whiney girls , and if they had a problem they should have
resolved it on the field rather than crying to the press.
That being said the Loins do seem to be getting under the skin of of few teams this year,
and their head coach does have a rather annoying demeanour.
That could`ve been me,a useless gnome* fishing
for turds in a birthing pool.
Many kinda felt the same way about us in 2009
and were complaining about Gregg Williams demeanor and belief in “remember me shots.” I’m happy for the Lions and think they can be as mean as they want to be as long as they don’t break any rules. The Falcons did seem kinda whiney the other day.
Of course if they did that to Brees I’d have a different view of it and would be shouting “Off with their heads!”
"As soon as Tony (Dungy) said we had no chance, I knew we had 'em right where we wanted 'em"--Coach Sean Payton right after Super Bowl XLIV with the Lombardi Trophy firmly in hand. WHO DAT!!
by David "Satch" Kelly on Oct 26, 2011 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, but...
…if they’d done that to Brees, Jimmy Graham would’ve suplexed someone and then Brees would’ve thrown a touchdown to him as soon as he got the chance. I thought it was pretty ridiculous the Dirty Birds were complaining so much, considering they won the game and it was their own O-lineman who stepped on and injured Ryan.
by sammasaaron on Oct 26, 2011 12:51 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
This^^^^^^
I thought it was pretty ridiculous the Dirty Birds were complaining so much, considering they won the game and it was their own O-lineman who stepped on and injured Ryan.
INGRAMANIA equals LOMBARDI 2012
by cajuncommando58 on Oct 26, 2011 2:49 PM CDT up reply actions
I love what Heath Evans had to say on the subject
http://blogs.nfl.com/2011/10/25/evans-falcons-shouldnt-whine-about-lions-taunts/
And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine patris, et filii, et spiritus sancti.
by DrWhoDat on Oct 26, 2011 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
yeah...
Are they dirty because of the trash talking? No.
Is Suh dirty because of the late hits and dirivng the QB to the ground that isn’t called or fined? Yes. And he knows it. You can tell when he answers questions about being a dirty player. He smirks like a kid who just stole some cookies from the cookie jar…. “Na ah”
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