49ers @ Saints: Players to Watch

That means we can probably expect a sloppy game with more than a few penalties and some atrocious tackling.

I expect nothing but a perfect game from my Saints that will lead to a horrendous trouncing of the 49ers (like the Patriots-Jags game last night!) I know…wishful thinking!

Hopefully we can do much better in the field position battle than we did last year. Knowing Sean, however, we’ll probably see a pretty vanilla game.

The scariest thing about putting Drew in at all is knowing that on the defensive side there are rookies and recent acquisitions that are going to be doing their damndest to make the 49rs squad by making a “highlight” statement.

Dave, I just want to take a sec and congradulate you on the great job you (and the gang of five at the bottom of the page) did holding this thing together during the lockout. You guys always came up with at least ONE thing to attract members’ attention and spark “lively” debates.

There’ll be a little extra something on your paycheck this week! ;-)

I thought he did great last preseason. He seems like a big target that can go up to fight for a jump ball. I’m cheering for him to make the team over Arrington.

I’m also interested to see how the offensive tackle plays out over preseason, mainly seeing if Charles Brown has been making any progress, and if Stinchcomb can hold onto his spot (which I don’t think he will).

Remember Steve Spurrier’s first pre-season game? The good thing about this short and peculiar training camp is that Harbaugh likely didn’t have enough time to thoroughly game-plan for the Saints in the “this is my first ever NFL game as a coach and I want to prove to the world I can do this and start my team off with a confidence building big win” kind of move we saw Spurrier use his first year.

Something Payton said in last nights timely training camp re-cap (thanks for those Hans and Jon) piqued my interest. He mentioned something along the lines of “new coaching staff with no film on them yet” and how he’s eager to see how our players respond to things “they’ve not seen in practice” due to this.

Part of me thinks even a vanilla Saints is so much deeper and experienced and no contest for the 49ers, so much so that it will be a Patriots/Jags type blow-out; while the other part is zoned in on what Payton said and thinking um, not so fast. The biggest part just hopes to see no injuries, great special teams coverage, and plenty of explosive plays for our offense with none given up by our defense.

I also can’t wait to see who “that guy” we’ll all fall in love with is— you know, the 2 or 3 gems in the rough who look like world beaters against the 3rd stringers.

With T on the left and A on the right? I’m having a tough time focusing on the players to watch.

I think the Saints will be quite vanilla tonight and the 49ers will play extremely hard, but the Saints still come out on top. That’s the difference between these two teams. The 49ers have a way to go yet.
 Cold Pizza will keep a close eye on Joique Bell tonight and so will I. In my opinion Joique Bell can easily make this roster with a good game tonight. I hate to say it, but if Ivory continues to fail his physical, he may be in trouble.

Seeing Lance Moore, or Pierre Thomas awaiting a kickoff or punt return. I hope to God coach doesn’t put those players at risk like that. Just use those guys at their regular positions.

it must be excellent iced tea!

looks like the air-con is working a little too well if that pic of Rita is anything to go by.
Either that or m imagination is working overtime.

And I’m stuck in the middle with Ya’ll. Just saying.

the fact that i can’t watch this game is killing me… ugh!

i’m looking forward to seeing junior, wilson, and mcdaniel… i hope those guys have an awesome night!

That means we can probably expect a sloppy game with more than a few penalties and some atrocious tackling

Hopefully the penalties would not be like the Denver game last night where the offense recieved 3 offensive penalties on the same play. If that wasn’t strange enough, the defense declined all three penalties.

Tyler Lorenzen. He’s a little bit of a long shot to make the team. But, his bio is interesting. He played 2 years as a QB in jr college in California and then played 2 years as a QB at Uconn, all the while being from Iowa. At 6’5", he’s now been converted to TE and could be one of Payton’s “undeclared” projects. He loves “creating” players he can utilize the way he wants to- such as 3rd and short or goaline or whatever. I think he is interested in having 3 TEs on the team, and being able to use 2 TE formations on occasion to make match ups difficult. Possibly a practice squad candidate (I think) . He could also serve as an emergency QB. Anyone have any info or opinions? Do you see the Saints keeping an add’l TE after Graham and Thomas? I could see him being a guy that payton creates a small, well-defined role for and uses him to his best advantage. Could help if he plays special teams also0 seems we could be a little light there.

The guy who many people seem to like (inexplicably), who never gets any regular season play, who barely hang on to the roster, while many people call for him to get some regular season play time (inexplicably).

Is this how it starts – a guy hears from a guy that a player might be good… then that spreads through fan-dom… and they hold on to that possibility until the guy is finally released from the team three years later?

pre-season last year and some in the regular season. It’s a hard task when you don’y play regularly or practice with the 1st team regularly ( or get injured)

Rod Harper did pretty good last night for the Eagles- but he still may be available when the cuts happen …….I think he can play in this league..