Cold weather games

SaintsBro · 07-19-2011, 03:33 PM

Ever since that Chicago game, people seem to have kinda developed a chicken little complex over the cold weather games. The Soldier Field game it was the FIELD that was a factor more than the actual weather. The turf just got worse and worse as the day went on. Sloppy.

I believe in the theory that something happened to Deuce during that Chicago game. I can distinctly remember he was sorta limping in between plays. He just didn't look "right" to me when the cameras would show him walking, or standing there before they'd get in the huddle. He didn't look like his normal self. I think he tweaked or popped something early in that game, or maybe he was just really beat up from the Eagles the week before; and Payton probably knew it but nobody else did, it wasn't publicly admitted and they never really talked about it. And so Payton went pass happy and the wheels fell off. But I distinctly remember thinking to myself, that something about Deuce did not look right that day. I think he might have tweaked an ankle or something on the CRUMMY FIELD, got dinged up, and it was all downhill from there. But being Deuce, he's a class act and he's not gonna go out there in an interview after the game and say "Awww, I got hurt" as an excuse for losing. He's not a crybaby.

But that's my own theory on what I think might have happened up there in Chicago, it wasn't the weather, it was the FIELD. And then late in the game Chicago was passing the ball all over the place, because their receivers knew when they were going to cut in the slippery muck, and our defenders didn't. Ugh. What a nightmare.

But, then again, contradicting what I just said earlier, having the Green Bay game early in the year this year is a pretty big break. It's just one less thing to have to worry about.

07-19-2011, 03:33 PM	#9
SaintsBro Site Donor Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: in line with my ridiculous CLEAR PLASTIC BAG Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 3	Ever since that Chicago game, people seem to have kinda developed a chicken little complex over the cold weather games. The Soldier Field game it was the FIELD that was a factor more than the actual weather. The turf just got worse and worse as the day went on. Sloppy. I believe in the theory that something happened to Deuce during that Chicago game. I can distinctly remember he was sorta limping in between plays. He just didn't look "right" to me when the cameras would show him walking, or standing there before they'd get in the huddle. He didn't look like his normal self. I think he tweaked or popped something early in that game, or maybe he was just really beat up from the Eagles the week before; and Payton probably knew it but nobody else did, it wasn't publicly admitted and they never really talked about it. And so Payton went pass happy and the wheels fell off. But I distinctly remember thinking to myself, that something about Deuce did not look right that day. I think he might have tweaked an ankle or something on the CRUMMY FIELD, got dinged up, and it was all downhill from there. But being Deuce, he's a class act and he's not gonna go out there in an interview after the game and say "Awww, I got hurt" as an excuse for losing. He's not a crybaby. But that's my own theory on what I think might have happened up there in Chicago, it wasn't the weather, it was the FIELD. And then late in the game Chicago was passing the ball all over the place, because their receivers knew when they were going to cut in the slippery muck, and our defenders didn't. Ugh. What a nightmare. But, then again, contradicting what I just said earlier, having the Green Bay game early in the year this year is a pretty big break. It's just one less thing to have to worry about.