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Re: Saints fire WR coach Henry Ellard and TE coach Terry Malone

I thought the TE coach did well enough to stay. Hill was come along nicely.
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Re: Saints fire WR coach Henry Ellard and TE coach Terry Malone

I thought Ellard was highly regarded?
Maybe sick of the drops

Still same old issues on the lines and LBs though
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Still same old issues on the lines and LBs though
Did you miss the part where Payton said more changes are coming?
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Good I say. Other than Stills the receiver group has shown a real lack of focus and smarts on the field the last couple of years. Graham hasn't really become the polished TE that he could be.

More moves? I think Vitt sticks around for the long haul. He's too big a part of the organization and has much larger responsiblities than just being the LB coach. Bill Johnson is almost certainly gone and the DB coach is already gone.

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I thought the TE coach did well enough to stay. Hill was come along nicely.
I like Josh Hill a lot, but I wonder how much of his development has to do with Ben Watson and not the coaching. Graham is still a raw player after 5 years in the league. Considering the amount of money we've committed to him that's not a viable result.
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Did you miss the part where Payton said more changes are coming?
I'll believe it more when Vitt gets his walking papers.
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Good I say. Other than Stills the receiver group has shown a real lack of focus and smarts on the field the last couple of years. Graham hasn't really become the polished TE that he could be.

More moves? I think Vitt sticks around for the long haul. He's too big a part of the organization and has much larger responsiblities than just being the LB coach. Bill Johnson is almost certainly gone and the DB coach is already gone.



I like Josh Hill a lot, but I wonder how much of his development has to do with Ben Watson and not the coaching. Graham is still a raw player after 5 years in the league. Considering the amount of money we've committed to him that's not a viable result.
I agree with what you said about Hill, I also agree that Graham not being polished. I can't see why Vitt stays, to many better lb. coaches out there that can get much better results and Vitt is a joke at being the assistant head coach just look at results when Payton was suspended.
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From reading between the lines over the years it seems like Vitt is a fairly important part of the structure as SP's right hand man or whatever you call it. I don't think he will be fired for that reason. But maybe they promote him upward to full-time asst. coach and hire somebody else just to focus on the LBs. FWIW, I don't think our LBs are coached poorly, they just lack footspeed.
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Well..looks like we are gonna see some new cogs. Fine with me. Everyone is on the chopping block.
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