Fleur-de-Links: November 2, 2011
by David "Satch" Kelly on Nov 2, 2011 4:00 PM CDT
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Bucs expecting the good Drew Brees in Saints game | wwltv.com New Orleans
Ronde Barber watched the Saints loss to St. Louis and made mental checks as to what worked.
Bucs Q&A: Balanced attack would help Freeman | TBO.com
Have a good question about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? The Tampa Tribune's beat writers - Roy Cummings and Ira Kaufman - will answer it.
Raheem Morris: Sean Payton causes aging - NFC South Blog - ESPN
"He’s made me older,’’ Morris said. "I got the job when I was 32. I’m about 46 now.’’
Magic Number Seven
According to Lake, it’s not how many yards Brees throws for overall that should worry his opponents, but how many yards he gets per throw.
LeGarrette Blount wants bigger role - NFC South Blog - ESPN
"I know I’m going to play third downs in this game,’’ Blount said. "I probably won’t play all of them but I know I’ll play quite a few of them. I’ve shown that I know the protections and that I know the routes and that I can catch the ball so that’s going to help us out tremendously. And it’s going to help me stay in the game a little longer and play a lot more snaps.’’
Recommended read: How to beat Saints - NFC South Blog - ESPN
But Verhei brings up something else that I think is a much bigger issue for the Saints. If they’re going to win the NFC South and make any kind of a run at the Super Bowl, the Saints have to improve their run defense dramatically.
Bucs notes: Key players are expected to return | TBO.com
Several key members of the Buccaneers appear set to return for Sunday's game at New Orleans, marking Tampa Bay's second matchup with the Saints in a three-week span.
New Orleans Saints scouting report: Tampa Bay - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
Saints hope to get revenge from the Game 1 loss
MORE ON THE GAME WE'D ALL LIKE TO FORGET:
NFL Power Rankings: Saints tumble - NFC South Blog - ESPN
The latest ESPN.com Power Rankings are out and the New Orleans Saints tumbled three spots to No. 6 after their stunning loss to the St. Louis Rams, who came into the game winless.
New Orleans Saints don't show much fire in loss to St. Louis Rams: Film study - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
Jeff Duncan's weekly breakdown of the Saints game
Pat Yasinskas' QB Watch - NFC South Blog - ESPN
Synthetic weed tolerance, love vs. football, and more what-ifs from Gerry V | NOLA.com
What would YOU do?
Drew Brees is on his way to 20 interceptions: Fantasy football waiver wire pickups | NOLA.com
Stat Based Glory Week Nine
Week 8 Film Review: Giants' Offense Lacks Balance - NYTimes.com
This was not a letdown game by the Saints – it was a "rise up" game by the Rams. They simply outschemed and outperformed their opponent. The Rams showed a presnap blitz look on just about every play for the first 20 minutes, and did a superb job of mixing blitzes with eight-man coverages from those looks.
LAGNIAPPE:
Out of Bounds by Jabari Greer: "Welcome to my world, son" - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com
New Orleans Saints defensive back's weekly column
Another T.O.-free Tryout Tuesday | ProFootballTalk
Saints: defensive backs Michael Hamlin, Jonathan Nelson, Ricky Price, Andrew Sendejo.
Aaron Rodgers, Ben Roethlisberger top QBs so far this season - Jim Trotter - SI.com
7. Drew Brees, Saints: It has been a grind for Brees, who, if you take away a 5-TD, 0-interception outing vs. the Colts two weeks ago, has managed 14 scores and 10 picks for the year. It was thought the arrival of rookie running back Mark Ingram would balance the offense, but Brees is shouldering an inordinate amount of the load. He has attempted at least 35 passes in every game, including 44 or more in six of them, which contrasts brightly with the Saints' Super Bowl-winning season two years ago, when he attempted at least 40 passes just three times. The good news for New Orleans is that Brees is capable of getting hot. He ranks No. 1 with a 133.5 passer rating on third down and has the Saints tied for first in the loss column in the NFC South. The bad: Those 10 picks are tied for second-most in the league.
Real Winner in Reggie Bush Trade
NFC South's good-hands club - NFC South Blog - ESPN
The good-hands club includes New Orleans’ Lance Moore (30 receptions on 41 targets), Atlanta’s Julio Jones (25 catches on 41 targets), Atlanta’s Harry Douglas (17 receptions on 28 targets), New Orleans’ Devery Henderson (16 catches on 25 targets) and Carolina’s Brandon LaFell (17 receptions on 24 targets).
Call It: Saints' midseason MVP - NFC South Blog - ESPN
Cam Newton far better, far sooner than anyone expected | ProFootballTalk
PFT is trying to look at every team in-depth during their bye week. The Packers, Bears, Jets, Bucs, and Raiders were in the spotlight last week. Now up: The Carolina Panthers. Losing rarely feels this good Carolina is 2-6 at the midway point.
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BLAH, BLAH, BLAH
SHOW THE F@#K UP this weekend, and every weekend afterwards! Be the team we all know you can be!
bucks expect the "good" brees..? wtf?
datbunchdumbasses? talkin bout da plague’s QB..? like he’s grossman..?
he’ll drop 450 on these sons-o-Bs.. i want dem dead and buried..
6. Alex Smith
7. Drew Brees
- Jim Trotter
Whatever credibility you might have had was completely lost with that ranking.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -Albert Einstein
You haven’t watched any SF games this year, have you? Alex may have stunk — no scratch that, did stink — for all of his previous years but this year he’s doing quite well. Sure he’s probably only a game-manager, throwing about half as often, but he’s also thrown TWO picks all year long. Drew has thrown 10 now, and most of them have directly led to either outright losses or closer-than-they-should-be games. Even if you extrapolate by rate he’s still over TWICE as good as Drew here.
Drew needs help, of course. No QB can do it entirely on their own, not even Manning or Brady or Rodgers. They need protection from their OL just as much as Drew does. But right now Drew isn’t getting it. And if that doesn’t change, he’s going to drop even further in the rankings… and he deserves to.
SP and company have to get their head out of their butts and realize that they have to start doing whatever it takes to protect Drew. If that means chip with the TE, that means chip. If that means adjust the RB, adjust the RB. If that means sub in somebody else, sub in somebody else. whatever it takes. Period.
I was a supporter of Alex before this year
I’ve seen two of his games this year, and sure, he’s playing fairly well. But the suggestion that he’s playing the QB position better than Brees right now is laughable. Smith has completed 63% of his passes, Drew is over 70%. Drew has nearly twice as many attempts, more than double the completions, total yards and TDs, and a full yard more per attempt. And despite some pretty awful play from the offensive line at times, Drew has been sacked 19 times to Smith’s 17.
If the ranking was based on INTs alone (either total or as a percentage of attempts), Smith would be ranked higher than Brady, Roethlisberger, Fitzpatrick, and Newton as well.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -Albert Einstein
Uhhh
Drew needs help, of course. No QB can do it entirely on their own
And if that doesn’t change, he’s going to drop even further in the rankings… and he deserves to.
I’m pretty sure only one of those can be true.
Bring back Aaron Brooks! He's the only one who can save us from the evil that is Drew Brees!!
Dallas’ misery will always be my delight
-TexansDC
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Bring back Aaron Brooks! He's the only one who can save us from the evil that is Drew Brees!!
Dallas’ misery will always be my delight
-TexansDC
Brees gets the blame too....
Are all SB QBs in the hall of fame?…… I don’t think so…… Hall of Famers do whatever it takes to win. Does Brees do that?…… Not really… He used to but Hall of Famers do what it takes with their arms and legs to move the ball DOWN the field. We’ve seen this bad, erratic play before in Brees but hoped it was just “a bad game”. Well those “bad game(s)” are adding up and unfortunately at a rapid pace for a QB of his caliber. Your job as QB is to get (+) positive yards mostly by throwing but really by any means neccesary. What made Montana, Young great wasn’t because they had the best OLine in history (Jerry Rice helps) but sometimes when Rice or any other eligible reciever wasn’t open and the pocket broke down, not only did they scramble in the pocket to keep the play alive, BUT when the time came and opportunity presented itself, they tucked the ball and THEY RAN which in most cases gained positive yards on a play that didn’t work , in some cases stopped the LBs from blitzing and even freeing up a guy downfield among other things. Its not Brees fault he’s not a hybrid QB but he DID run (not much) our SB season and with today’s DLinemen & LBs, you have to if you want to make something out of nothing. A few times at the end of any game where there is a “W”, sometimes it was because a 2nd or 3rd and 6 or 10 was turned into a TD or 1st down because the QB took advantage of what was there and got it with his feet.
In short, our D is avg at best but did hold them to 24 pts and even 6 of the 24 was because of 1 of Brees 2 INTs. The other INT was a pick 6. So far this season with the exception of Packers game, if we don’t score over 31 pts, we lose. Is that really a Championship caliber team? It can be if the QB takes care of the ball and move it down the field. What happened to Brees?…………….. He used to pick the blitz apart….. Now he panics and…. Seems like he lost his mojo…. Or maybe some of it….. Just saying…. Last year 22 INTS and midway this season 10 INTS…. Numbers don’t lie….. Don’t care how devoted you are. Hard but fair….. Sad but true….
Is there a need to panic, or relax?
Brees is had a less than stellar year true, compared to 2009, What othrt QB is knocking down doors? Rogers and? We have the luxury of having brees that for the most part is one of the greatest. So what, we don’t make it to the SB, i remember sitting on the front porch after games crying my eyes out every other sunday because the saints blew it. brees not the problem. the whole f!!kin team is not stepping up. Can they win, yep. Will they, thats what bothers us. not the losses as much as the expectations. We expect these guys to bring it, and when they don’t we act like a bunch of brats, me included!
Another hip flexor injury????
Maybe Chuck can join FPK in the same whirlpool after treatment…
WIN NOW
WINGRAMANIA!!!!
Hip Flexor
One of my pet peevs is when people say, “so and so has a hip flexor”. DUH we all have hip flexors but theirs is injured to some degree. I must have heard the announcers last weekend say it a dozen times.
by RyanWellness on Nov 3, 2011 6:46 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Good thing about 19 inches of snow and now power for 6 days
As a Saints fan from northern NJ is was worth it to be without power, water and heat so I didn’t know the saints lost to the Rams until Tuesday. What the F????
Let’s hope they play better against the Bucs!!
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by cajuncommando58 on Nov 3, 2011 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't think so unless it's being held by a cleric or politician
or if the Hall Monitor decides it isn’t OK
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