Dropped interceptions need to be corrected ASAP!!
 

I can think of 2 passes that should have been intercepted; one that would have ended the game.

Look at all year...its one thing that pisses me off...catch them gifts!

I have to completely agree with you. We could have lost today because Harp couldn't hang on to it! He played a great game otherwise, but just saying..

We need to take those opportunities when we get them, its one of the few things thats different from 2009

2009
We caught every ball thrown to us
Darren Sharper knows how to read a QB and would know where the pass was going, I Like Malcolm Jenkins....but he hasn't developed that trait yet.

Stone hands harper! had his best game i can remember and almost got a chance to cap it off

He sporadically has had some very good games for us this year... this hasn't been the first one. I think you're selling him a little short.

Yes the inability to catch the frippen ball is a very bad thing!!

Hey, we got one.

Shanle, I see Shanle. Meg Ryan was saying as she was cowering in the corner of the Falclowns locker room after the game

I was at every local training camp practice. There are two specific drills for this.

One drill is where D-backs line up 10 yds from the coach and run at him. The football is thrown at the D-back as he is running towards the coach. The ball is thrown at different angles.

The other drill is the tip drill. It is taught to our D-backs. Sharper and Sammy Knight are anomalies. They just have a knack for finding the ball. If all D-backs could do that, we wouldn't praise the ones that stand out.

It is a difficult thing to coach. It is even more difficult to identify the D-backs that can make it happen.

I agree...thats why they play D.

Chase Daniels needs to be throwing to the DBs this week...

Agreed. Agreed.
In the OT, whch should have have gone to OT, Harp had that TD fall between his hands and fingers.

There was a lot of dropies on the AF side too.
Come to think of it.

I was thinking and going to say the exact same thing. Do people honestly think these guys aren't doing there tip drills and working with the jug machine?

Guys like Shaquille O'Neal and Dwight Howard shot thousands of free throws a day... they still don't make them.

Agreed Papz. The DBs are DBs BECAUSE they can't catch.

Yeah, but if Shanle can catch one......

The turnovers will come.
Our guys are working really hard.

I really believe that we will peak at the correct time.
Late in the season and playoffs.
If not? Why even play? Why should we watch?

The glass is half full!

Who Dat?

This plays right into the teaching, and working on skills even with tackling its not going on at practice.

I am also noticing the drop INT's because in 09 those INT's were differet variety. Sharper was sitting back there and jumping the routes, our DB's also jumped a lot more routes perhaps the fact they knew Sharper, their leader was back their behind them and trusted they had their back.

Our drops are coming off the CB's giving chase and not in the same positions or situations as they were in 09.

If 20+ years of pee-wee, high school, college, and ultimately pro fooball can't teach you how to catch a football, a bye-week isn't going to solve it.

Even still, I am always shocked at how someone who plays professional football, especially a receiver or a DB, can't learn how to catch after so many years of playing the game. I never thought of catching a football as something like calculus-based physics, where some people can learn it and some can't. It's a damn football and should be something you can get better at with practice, but I'm now convinced that I'm wrong, some people have it and some don't.

Le's get tackling mastered first.

The Bears DBs had 4 against Stafford yesterday...just sayin.:)

Damn Shanle and Harper they good players but they can't cover or catch s*&t.

It's almost unrealistic to have expectations for a defender to be able to play both DB and receiver. Do we expect a receiver to automatically make a tackle when necessary? Yes, but we don't sell them out if they don't tackle well. We all know the old saying that they play defense because they can't catch. It's true. I believe. Sharper had the "it" factor.

Even though Shanle's INT was no more a gift than the DBs that they didn't catch..just sayin...lol

I wonder if some of this is due to the change in secondary coach this year. I mean Dennis Allen was evidently good enough at the gig to earn himself a better job as the Broncos' defensive coordinator. Dropped INTs and too-big cushions on the receiver have been consistent problems this year, that were visible immediately at the very beginning of preseason.

Good post PINCH.

And SaintsBro, you may be onto something. Coaching matters.

Alaska

Tackling/Hitting, Tip Drills, if we don't have this down yet - then it's time for some afterpractice time with da coach...

I don't think Harper has ever caught an INT, oh wait, he did, and got run down from behind by the QB of all things.

Oh Schiott...There geauxs the neighborhood!

It was a fumble.

Burned in Saints fans minds, Harper on Life Support after getting rundown!