Halo

So, for the 2nd week in a row, the Saints laid an egg at the end of the game. This time losing to Division Rival Atlanta 26-24 on a last second field goal in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The Saints had 2 key turnovers that lead to Falcons scores. First when Rasheed Shaheed dropped the opening kickoff into the endzone giving the Falcons an early touchdown. Then a deflected pass from Derek Carr was returned for a touchdown.

The Falcons did not score a touchdown in the game. The Saints also committed key penalties killing offensive drives.

Discuss the game here.

SmashMouth

Thanks Haleaux for jinxing us ...

SaintFanQ

Also, the injury list is piling up just to make things worse!

Sinner

Injuries all over the league. Winning teams find a way to WIN.
WE AINT DAT.

cmike

I wish Cam Jordan still played for us. We could have used his pass rush today.

K Major

I think he’s about done. We saw hints of it last season.

It happens to all of the greats.

K Major

Spotting a team 14 points at this level is hard to overcome.

Adebo is a penalty magnet late in games (3 thus far) & his PI cost us. I wish the NFL would do away with those PI spot fouls. I'd like to see Kool-Aid play more.

Not enough pressure on Kirk. He was back there baking cookies. Saints defense held the offense to 12 points all game. Most teams finish the deal with those types of defensive stats.

Rasheed's muff (gave up 6), Carr's pick (gave up 6) & Adedo's bad penalty were big factors in the loss. The coaching was not good enough.

Taysom, Mathieu, Demario, Cam Jordan are long in the tooth & our depth is poor.

Dennis Allen's team doesn't know how to close.

SmashMouth

We went from scoring 40 burgers to spotting a team two touchdowns ... It can't be just injuries , can it ?

Sinner

Nope.

BakoSaint

A thing can be very powerful and very fragile. The deathstar in star wars could wipe out planets but if one part went down the whole thing exploded. Our offense is like the death star but with a lot more weak points. Our greatest strength is two elite deep threats, our greatest weakness is our oline. Without adequate blocking our deep threats make zero impct. But even at full strength our oline cant block well enough to give them time without everything else firing on all cylinders, like taysom who is 34 years old and can no longer take the punishment playing enforcer and kamara who has never been an every down back leading a fierce rushing attack. They are needed to amplify the fully healthy oline to make it adequate to protect carr long enough to activate the deep threats which makes the running game work more. We have minimal depth at every offensive position and everything has to work to make our offenses greatest strength even a factor at all.

Meanwhile our defense is meant to play from ahead. We have one of the best secondaries and at least an ok pass rush. But none of our defensive tackles are very good, teams can run up the middle on us. And many leaders of our defense are older players who wear down by the 4th quarter and cant keep up a close game.