Fleur-de-Links: November 16, 2011
by David "Satch" Kelly on Nov 16, 2011 4:00 PM CST
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Handwerger: Saints still hard to figure out at bye week | wwltv.com New Orleans
This hasn’t been a perfect Saints season. They’ve escaped some games with wins and stoned teams big for others.
Commentary: It's great to have Falcons fans second-guessing their team | wwltv.com New Orleans
The post game laments of Falcon fans Sunday were those of Saints fans in the ‘Bad Ole Days’ – "We abandoned the run too quickly, we got out-coached, we just can’t beat those guy."
NFL Power rankings week 10 | wwltv.com New Orleans
So, Green Bay is the top seed and may go wire-to-wire in the regular season and it's hard not to put the 49ers second, after all, no other team has just two losses - after that it's a mad dash.
New Orleans Saints S Malcolm Jenkins Conference Call (Nov, 16, 2011)
"There are times when they put me down in the box and I get to move around a little bit it's all about our defensive scheme and usually when I am making those tackles, those aren't the tackles I am supposed to be making but it is what it is."
moosedenied " Blog Archive " ‘Til disaster comes along, I’m satisfied…
Aaaaah. There's not a whole lot more satisfying than strutting into the Georgia Dome, bending Roddy White over, and shoving something unpleasant right up his ass. Am I right, Ray Edwards? High five!
Final Day to Bid on Mississippi State Saints License Plates
Mike Smith's approval rating tumbles - NFC South Blog - ESPN
New Orleans’ Sean Payton is the only NFC South coach with an approval rating above 50 percent. Payton is tied for No. 6 in the NFL at 82 percent.
New Orleans Saints set up nicely for stretch run - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
Team took over NFC South lead before bye week
John Fox, Mike Smith, Rex Ryan in-game decisions may prove costly - The League - The Washington Post
Three NFL coaches made decisions on Sunday that could threaten their long-term career prospects with their current teams.
Harper picks up defensive player honors for Falcons game play - New Orleans Saints - SunHerald.com
The New Orleans Saints announced today that safety Roman Harper is the NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in the Saints, 26-23 win over the Atlanta Falcons.
NFC South Stock Watch - NFC South Blog - ESPN
2. Will Smith and Shaun Rogers, Saints defensive linemen. They’re the two players who were the first to get to Michael Turner on the infamous fourth-down play that won the game in overtime for the Saints. Rogers hasn’t had a huge impact most of the season. But he seemed to get a good jump on the snap count and moved right into the hole where Turner was supposed to go.
NFL Power Rankings: Saints No. 3 - NFC South Blog - ESPN
After defeating the Atlanta Falcons in overtime Sunday, the Saints moved up from No. 4 to No. 3. They are behind only the Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers as NFC teams now hold the first three spots in the rankings.
Darren Sproles leads NFL in YAC - NFC South Blog - ESPN
New Orleans running back Darren Sproles has moved into the league lead in yards after the catch (YAC), according to ESPN Stats & Information. Spro
'Stonewall' Jenkins was the impenetrable force for the New Orleans Saints: Film study - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
Jeff Duncan's weekly breakdown of the Saints game
New Orleans Saints player ramp up charitable work during bye week - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
Several New Orleans Saints players are taking advantage of their team's bye week to get involved in various charitable activities. The Saints return to action Nov. 28 in a Monday night game against the New York Giants in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. For example, defensive end Will Smith joined the Bridge House/Grace House at the New Orleans Marriott for an...
Saints Featured on NFL Turning Point on Versus Wednesday at 10pm " Saints Gab
Saints Nation: In Depth Look at the NFC Playoff Picture | November
Saints hit the bye in great position for division crown | ProFootballTalk
PFT is checking in on each team during their bye week. The last four teams are up this week, starting with the Saints. Great Position The Saints have been an uneven team, but the end result through ten weeks is a 7-3 record and terrific position in the NFC South.
Brees Nominated for FedEx Air Player of the Week
New Orleans Saints Active In The Community Throughout Bye Week
Falcons have gained 18 yards on screens - NFC South Blog - ESPN
New Orleans’ Drew Brees is fourth in screen yardage (233). Brees has completed 37 of 40 screens with one touchdown.
LAGNIAPPE:
No, Peyton Manning will not be the next head coach at Ole Miss | ProFootballTalk
"I’ve gotten about 20 or 25 e-mails from people in that regard," Archie Manning said, via the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "I passed that on to Peyton. He said, ‘Just tell them that I’m 0-10 as an assistant for Indianapolis.’"
Kolb was calling out Eagles’ plays to Arizona defense | ProFootballTalk
"During the two-minute drill, you almost feel guilty," Kolb said. "Mike’s sitting there giving the signals, and I’m standing there on our sidelines, screaming at our corners, ‘Hey it’s a go ball, hey he’s running a screen, hey he’s running a slant.’"
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The chances of losing that many coin tosses in a row was 1 in 2048 (his math, not mine).
That would mean you could pick (what you thought was) the worst team in the NFL to win the Superbowl and you’d have a better chance of it happening than this.
I know this is difficult to have lost so many in a row and never get the ball first this season, and I'm as frustrated about it as anyone
I wonder about these calculations, because the Saints aren’t actually calling it every time, are they?
I think that it’s the visiting team that calls it, so they’ve only tried to guess it four times, with the other six times being someone else’s attempt to win it, so I wonder if that’s factored into the calculations…
I know that from my math classes in middle/high school all the word problems on coin-flip guessing and probability center around one person flipping a coin so many consecutive times, but not around a coin flip where two parties alternate trying to guess the outcome correctly…
WIN NOW
WINGRAMANIA!!!!
by Hans Petersen on Nov 17, 2011 8:35 AM CST up reply actions
2048 = 2 to the 11th power
11 coin flips – (10 opening tosses plus 1 overtime)
2 possible outcomes each time – (win toss or lose toss)
And no, the “question” being answered is, what’s the odds of us losing the coin toss 11 times in a row. it doesn’t matter who picks.
thanks, DK
I began to wonder about it after reading it so many times this week
kinda like when you say a word many, many times in a row and it starts sounding weird…
WIN NOW
WINGRAMANIA!!!!
by Hans Petersen on Nov 17, 2011 4:48 PM CST up reply actions
The visiting team calls the toss.
To me winning the toss or not doesn’t matter as long as we kick off first. I love that we get the ball first in the second half.
Yea. Like in the Super Bowl.
Bwahahahaha!
Trying to open a can of beer with a corkscrew only scratches the surface.
by Just 'Nother Day on Nov 17, 2011 2:34 PM CST up reply actions
Hey JND...
Was playing Call of Duty: MW3 today, and at the end of one of the successful missions, the leader says… “Just another day.”
Is that an actual saying in the military?
I got "Just another day" from a sticker I bought in Hawaii -
It had a characture of a guy in a straw hat sitting under a coconut tree with a drink in his hand and the caption, “Just another shi..y day in paradise.”
Trying to open a can of beer with a corkscrew only scratches the surface.
by Just 'Nother Day on Nov 18, 2011 8:22 PM CST up reply actions
Shaun Rogers probably freaked when he was part of the stop to end the Falcons chances.
He probably didn’t have room to move and just happened to be in the right place. I think if he would have had the room, he would have went a different direction and missed the play altogether.
Maybe it's a sign of better play to come from Rogers
He’s been pretty much invisible up until that play.
"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 Nov 17, 2011 9:22 AM CST up reply actions
Satch,
I hope you’re right. What bothers me about the guy is that he was supposed to be the man for this defense because of his greatness in the past. I haven’t seen anything that would consider him better than a rookie. I hope he finally gets with the plan, because I feel that as long as they keep him in there with his non play, the defense will continue to struggle.
I don't key on him when I watch the games
But I do occasionally notice him getting penetration into the passing pocket, and it seems to me most of the opponent big runs come from off-tackle cuts. So I wouldn’t say he’s invisible, but certainly not Suh’s daddy either. I notice Andrew Juge seems to think he’s starting to play better.
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