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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; First off, I\'m not bashing Brooks by using this but questioning your arguements: then last night he has to play in the wind swirling toilet bowl known as candlestick 3com whatever you call that dump? Funny how San Fran QB\'s ...
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08-24-2003, 04:59 PM | #11 |
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First off, I\'m not bashing Brooks by using this but questioning your arguements:
By the way, Brooks has looked better in the preseason and seems to be healthy. I\'m eager to see him in two weeks and see how the offense opens it up against Seattle. |
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08-24-2003, 05:35 PM | #12 |
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SF had homefield, they\'re used to that mess
plus AB and Garcia/Rattay are two differant style of QB, granted rattay did air it out a little last night neither garcia nor rattay are deep ball guys like AB even the announcers last night were joking about how bad the wind was |
08-24-2003, 05:55 PM | #13 |
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Despite what some excuse makers want to say on here there does not appear to be much in the way of positives from this preseason. Some say the saints have been playing vanilla all 3 games ... How do you know this? Are you in on the game planning seesions? If this is so then I am even more worried about the coaching philosophy for not seeing where the team really is performance wise. How can they know where improvements need to be made if they only throw out the \"good stuff\" during practice.
I am not buying it. Haz has made this entire organization a bunch of excuse makers. I believed the hype in the offseson but my eyes don\'t lie to me. The words coming out of airline Dr. do not match what we see on the field. If they don\'t try it during preseason then how the heck are they (and some of you folks) going to know it will work in the regular season. Is the team secretly practicing against another team? It comes down to this. The defense did not play well last year and the defense has only been playing vanilla this preseason. They have nothing to go by to tell themselves they are going to be any better. The offense is out of whack and I don\'t know whose fault that is right now. They have not scored a TD against a #1 defense and they played like crap at the end of last year. Oh I guess they are so damn good they will just go out in the first game and know exactly how to score a TD once they get in the red Zone. The excuse we hear for this is the same \"we don\'t want to show our stuff\". This is bull crapola. I gues the saints coaching staff has come up with the most high tech offensive plays in the offseason that no other team has ever seen. Fact will be seen that they will run the same plays they did last year. And why is it this saints team is the only NFL team worried about keeping its offense and defense top secret? No other playoff contending team is having problems scoring TD\'s with \"their\" vanilla Game plans. I usually do not put any weight on preseason play either but I have never seen anything like what I am seeing from the group this year. When you hear anything coming out of the saints it is always positive. This concerns me that they are lying to themselves. I want a coulda, shoulda, woulda press conference coming out of Airline Drive. |
08-24-2003, 06:40 PM | #14 |
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After that is when the 49\'ers backups entered the game and the Saints defense actually played worse against them. Fred Thomas was responsible for giving up some very big plays last night. On one drive alone he was beaten badly for a 20yd gain and a couple of plays later he allowed the receiver to catch the ball easily in the endzone. For the first 2 series the Saints defense looked good. On the 3rd series, although they gave up a TD, they didn\'t look bad. Really!! After last night I was very disappointed but after a cooling off period I have come back to reality. The reality is that this is preseason ,and while the 3rd game is the preseason game that the starters should look their best, it doesn\'t always work out like that. I think there is no way that when they start putting pressure on the QB and put their defensive scheme in, that I think teams continue to pick apart the defense like they have done in the preseason. I admit we appear to have some problems but I think some of you have completely given up on the defense before the first game. Rememeber who you are and I want to see you back here after the first REAL GAME!! Where are all the folks that were preaching to me that the scheme is more important than just lining up the players and letting them make plays? And for the record: I never said the scheme wasn\'t important!! [Edited on 24/8/2003 by BillyCarpenter1] [Edited on 24/8/2003 by BillyCarpenter1] |
08-24-2003, 09:14 PM | #15 |
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\"Positives: Almost all the offseason moves we made look like they are upgrades.\"
WHOA - hold on. I\'m just thinking defense here, but let\'s consider: Rodgers - big upgrade, the guy\'s a stud. Smith/Ruff - backup linebacker who couldn\'t overtake Clemons for the starting job and a guy whose best year ever doesn\'t come close to Clemons year LAST YEAR. Giant downgrade at the spot we needed help most. Allen/Hodge - No comment yet. Sullivan - Little to say yet. He\'s big and strong, but I need to see that transform in to good play on the field. CB - all just a year older - that means slower. Keyuo Craver will be starting by year end - at least he\'ll be around for more than the next two years. Safeties - Tebucky Jones SHOULD be an upgrade over Bellamy, but thus far he hasn\'t done much to impress me. Mitchell is no where even remotely close to the player Sammy Knight is, RIGHT NOW. Upgrade? No, I say downgrade. We are worse right now then we were at this time last year. Hopefully by year end we\'ll have our sh-t together, but right now we suck. |
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08-24-2003, 09:28 PM | #16 |
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First of all, I like reading your posts and I understand where your coming from-BUT-your making it out to be much worse than it\'s probably going to be. You, as well as I, know anyone can make anything sound as good or bad as you want it to. You have stated some things that are not true. Such as:
Now, I know it\'s easy to be down on the defense right now, but the whole complex of the game changes once the regular season starts and things could be much better or they could be much worse. IMO- you are jumping the gun-- [Edited on 25/8/2003 by BillyCarpenter1] |
08-24-2003, 10:23 PM | #17 |
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Of couse, what does Sammy care, he landed that mega-contract from Miami when he voided the last year of his Saints contract, No wait... ahh nevermind. We\'ve been down this road called league minimum too many times before. |
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08-25-2003, 06:09 PM | #18 |
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I agree with this post:
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