TPankey

Hey what's up guys. Just registering here and all that jazz. Just had to get this off my chest. Why in the world the coaches decided to try and play the colts offense using a 4-3 defense most of the time is beyond me. You can't play anybody, much less the Colts, with a 4-3 defense when the oppposing offense is ligning up with three wide-outs and one runner in the backfield. That's why the Saints lost the game. Their defensive game plan relied too heavily on their linebackers. Yes, the Saints have six linebackers that could start anywhere in the league. And they are going to prove to be a real assett against run-oriented teams. However, the coaches just got a wake up call-the linebackers shouldn't have been relied on to try and contain the pass-oriented Colts. Had they stayed more in a nickel package the entire time, after all there were really three wideouts lining up on the Colts offense almost the entire time, but had they matched the Colts offense with a nickle package rather than being too in love with the three linebackers in there most of the time, than the game would have stayed close at least. Heck, if they really wanted to use their linebackers as much as they did, then they should have gone all the way with it and put four linebackers out there, and done to the Colts and Peyton what the Steelers did to them in their 3-4 with multiple blitz packages coming from every direction. On another note, the Saints lost because they got away from the running game too soon. The way to to beat the Colts would have been to mostly power-run downhill with Deuce against the lighter Colts defense and essentially just run over them over the course of the game, with some play-action mixed in at the right times. Had they done that, like I was expecting, (now I'm not so sure this coaching staff is as good as they've been made out to be), then they'd be 1-0, rather than looking as embarrassed as they are now.