Where is COLSTON?
 

Great catch in the endzone, but compared to last year not very productive. Does he have some injury we don't know about or have teams figured him out?

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

having no one to worry about on the other side has hurt him.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

Focus, execution and concentration. He'll get it together as the rest of the offense improves.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. The reason why Colston was so successful last season was because we had guys like Devery Henderson and Terrence Copper making big plays to take some of the focus off of him. This year, Colston is getting all of the attention because opposing defenses don't have to pay too much attention to whoever the other receiver is because they're not making plays.

P.S. - what the hell happened to Copper? He was very good last year, but he's non-existent now.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

Great observation, yeah where are the other receivers?

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

Patton, Moore, and Johnson all showed up. Reggie has disappeared to a degree because of the shift to him being a traditional back.

Henderson has played himself off the squad as far as I'm concerned. Moore and Patton have far outplayed him. Copper has simply gotten caught in the numbers games. There are clearly 3 better receivers than him and the staff keeps giving Henderson chances. There are no 6 wideout sets.

Receivers are not the problem with this offense. The problem with this offense has been three fold:

1) Poor line play
2) Inconsistent running game
3) Inaccurate passing leading to turnovers.

Look at what happens when all three are corrected even for a half. 3 TDs by the offense and only one turnover which wasn't an INT.

The receiver corps is fine (with the exception of Henderson). Leave them be (again with the exception of Henderson). Work on getting consistent line play and an effective running game. With those Brees will rise back to one of the best QBs in the NFC. Then the receivers will flourish.

SFIAH

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

You missed one. The use of Karney. This offense works much better when he's in the game. Pure and simple.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

Karney, is the key, and for the love of God I can't figure out why. He just kicks the fire up.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

I don`t buy this stuff that Colston is not more involved because he`s the expected target. All the great receivers are primary targets, but they run good routes and find ways to get open. That`s how a receiver gets the ball in this league, you get open. When Colston gets open he`ll get the ball more.
Last nite Colston dropped an easy quick-out screen pass and he also lost a jump ball in the endzone that he had the position on and should have caught. Crap like this does not help your case for getting the ball more.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

Is it me or did Colston look really frustrated and mopey. Even after he caught that TD he didn't look to excited. It even look like Brees was consoling him more than congratulating him. I think he's going to be fine, it's his sophomore year, the toughest year especially for wide outs.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

I don't know why it's being said his production is down. He's got 23 catches for 218 yards - and that's after yesterday's 1 catch game. That puts him on pace for 70+ catches and 650 yards. The yardage is down a bit, but he can only catch what is being thrown to him and the Saints are throwing shorter this year.

Is his production really down or he just doing less than you expected?

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

I noticed he looked down after the TD too, but, remember that was following his two drops. Maybe he was just ticked at himself and wasn't going to let one catch for a TD make him feel better about two drops.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

The team knows what Colston can do and so does the defenses we face. The other WR are being singled out to see who will play. I hope I am wrong but I think it is on purpose. By going to the #2 and #3 more it will free Colston up more. It also goes a long way to determining what to do with Henderson and his contract year. Right now I see him walking away as a FA and we will get a comp pick for him and that will be the end of his saints saga.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

After dropping the first TD pass thrown to him he looked "out of sorts". It was comical though to see him attempt to spike the ball after the TD he did catch...seems he couldn't hold on to the ball then either. He is young and inexperienced but will prove worthy of his talent.

JMO

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

"Reggie has disappeared"

I thought he had finally showed up. Last week I would have agreed with you 100%. He looks a lot better going north and south than he does trying to make the corner. I hope he finds his stride. Maybe it was a fluke. We'll see.

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

I think I read in the paper before the Seattle game that Copper was injured...

Re: Where is COLSTON?
 

bench him
give me patten and moore.

just thought i would stir things up a bit.