Why we lost this game

nicebush25 · 09-09-2011, 01:11 PM

The colston fumble was pivotal. It caused the saints to play catch up the whole game instead of running a balanced attack allowing green bay to control time of posession and making our defense stay on the field most of the game. It caused a tired saint defense that got blown of the line at the point of attack then sloppy tackling down field.
As for the last play of the game, that play was unpaytonlike taking risks and the defense off balance is what he does best. Running it up the middle into the teeth of that defense in lambeau was gonna only have one result.
He hasn't run the play action naked bootleg since buffalo in '08, it would have scored in this situation without a doubt in my mind.

neugey · 09-09-2011, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by nicebush25

The colston fumble was pivotal. It caused the saints to play catch up the whole game instead of running a balanced attack allowing green bay to control time of posession and making our defense stay on the field most of the game. It caused a tired saint defense that got blown of the line at the point of attack then sloppy tackling down field.

I agree. This felt like we lost a set of tennis 7-5 after getting our serve broken early on in the set. Played very well and hung with the Pack, but couldn't break their serve and as a result, they won.

09-09-2011, 10:41 PM	#2
neugey Hu Dat! Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6,870 Blog Entries: 13	Originally Posted by nicebush25 The colston fumble was pivotal. It caused the saints to play catch up the whole game instead of running a balanced attack allowing green bay to control time of posession and making our defense stay on the field most of the game. It caused a tired saint defense that got blown of the line at the point of attack then sloppy tackling down field. I agree. This felt like we lost a set of tennis 7-5 after getting our serve broken early on in the set. Played very well and hung with the Pack, but couldn't break their serve and as a result, they won.

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nicebush25 lightly scented Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 142	The colston fumble was pivotal. It caused the saints to play catch up the whole game instead of running a balanced attack allowing green bay to control time of posession and making our defense stay on the field most of the game. It caused a tired saint defense that got blown of the line at the point of attack then sloppy tackling down field. As for the last play of the game, that play was unpaytonlike taking risks and the defense off balance is what he does best. Running it up the middle into the teeth of that defense in lambeau was gonna only have one result. He hasn't run the play action naked bootleg since buffalo in '08, it would have scored in this situation without a doubt in my mind.