Saints injury updates

WhoDat · 11-05-2003, 08:55 AM

Honestly, I\'m not sure that the defense can get much better than it is right now. Getting Howard back and moving Whitehead to DT should help us get additional push up front on passing downs and that means pressure on opposing QBs. Of course, we\'ve been getting good pressure recently, so I\'m not sure how much more that will help.

Letting Grady go has it\'s high points and low points. I\'m not saying it wasn\'t the right thing to do, for what I can tell at this point, it was right, but that also means that we don\'t have any big run stopper in the middle anymore. Our secondary played well against Tampa - woopee - but they also got abused by no-names from Tennessee and Carolina. Frankly, I think this defense may start putting a little more pressure on opposing QBs, but unless the offense starts scoring more quickly and more often, then they will only get worse against the run.

11-05-2003, 08:55 AM	#15
WhoDat 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 5,631	Saints injury updates Honestly, I\'m not sure that the defense can get much better than it is right now. Getting Howard back and moving Whitehead to DT should help us get additional push up front on passing downs and that means pressure on opposing QBs. Of course, we\'ve been getting good pressure recently, so I\'m not sure how much more that will help. Letting Grady go has it\'s high points and low points. I\'m not saying it wasn\'t the right thing to do, for what I can tell at this point, it was right, but that also means that we don\'t have any big run stopper in the middle anymore. Our secondary played well against Tampa - woopee - but they also got abused by no-names from Tennessee and Carolina. Frankly, I think this defense may start putting a little more pressure on opposing QBs, but unless the offense starts scoring more quickly and more often, then they will only get worse against the run.
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