My positive Paulie take on things
 

Playcalling was predictable as hell and we still didnt have balance. He didnt abandon the run which is good but wayyyyy to many screens.

Drew looked well, older. Didnt seem as accurate as usual and it is odd because the offensive line actually did a much better job pass blocking than a year ago.

Receivers need some work. Maybe we should look at NIcks. Colston pulled a Colston and Coleman didnt do much to give Drew confidence. Our red zone offense looks just as pathetic as last year.

Still cant get the turnover. Breaux got one but I saw at least 3-4 other opportunities blown that could have been game changers.

Payton really does seem to hate Ryan. Even if the defense plays well I think there is a riff in that marriage that cant be mended and he will never have Paytons total trust. If Payton has to second guess the defense all the time he starts calling stupid plays.

WTF was that pass to Cooks in the endzone when he was covered by Peterson? That was just dumb.

Anyway there are some positives and I do actually feel a little better about the team but it seems like there are a lot of problems that carried over from last year.

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That was uh.... Not as positive as I was expecting. But I don't really disagree with you.

And that's my neutral, um..... Newton take.

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What I see we need to improve on is pass rush. Wr reducing the drops. Dl keeping the ol off the linebackers

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It's a given that our offense is supposed to carry this team...as always but now that can't we need help from our defense. With what we had available I think they did decent except for not getting a consistent pass rush...

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And Steve Spagnola has the Giants D looking good. Maybe our defense problems go away beyond who our coordinators are.

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They lost and looked bad on that final scoring drive by the Cows.

I don't miss that dude at all.

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We're in transition this year. It feels like it.

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Saints ranked defense sense Brees
2014 31
2013 4
2012 32
2011 24
2010 4
2009 25
2008 23
2007 26
2006 11
of course we are going to attack the defense, exactly how long does the #1 offense 5 seasons in this period have to win games ?
Its ridiculous, and we all know those 4th ranked defenses were with weak schedules, defense folded in the playoffs. Just saying Ted, Saints fans have good reason to blame the defense, they have literally sucked.
If we just had a competent 10-15th ranked defense in this time we would have 2-3 rings by now.

Saints offensive Rank
Saints
2014 1
2013 4
2012 2
2011 1
2010 6
2009 1
2008 1
2007 4
2006 1

I mean jesus Ted we literally were the best in the NFL sense 2006 period on offense. Thats crazy. Saints fans are pissed at the defense and they should be.
Defense is the one that has to prove to saints fans, not the other way around. We have delt with this too long and now Brees's time is running out.
Everyone needs to stop making excuses for broken coverage and 7pts at the end of the game to put it out of reach. Hold - do your Job - or get fired
Frankly we are sick of the bad defenses in NO. if we cant figure it out, fire everyone on the D coaching staff and start from scratch. Cant do much worse.
So I wouldn't blame Saints fans for being fed up.

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I didn't blame the defense, read before react, I said what the improvements should be. If you want to imply that I am moron I could imply that you're a illiterate