Questions from texans vs saints game

Tobias-Reiper · 08-27-2012, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by Saint_LB

...and then people go on and on about the game. How can you do that? It didn't count. It wasn't being played the same way as a regular season game would be played. How can you make any intelligent observations at all? You know that most teams keep it vanilla. Oh, boy!

/rant

It may not be a "real" game, it may not count in the standings, but still, I want to see tendencies. Especially this season, when there is a completely new defensive system. Watching these preseason games, I can see things that I have not seen in NO in a while, like controlled blitzes, players wrapping their arms around the opponent instead of launching shoulder first, CBs actually contesting balls from the WRs...

And when you think about it, would you want to go into the regular season with a new defensive scheme without trying it out first, being able to evaluate which players do better on the new scheme? Or would you want Spagnuolo just to guess who may or may not be a good fit on his scheme and go with that Week 1?

And how about the offense? Would you think it is enough for the offense to just practice against the same scheme for 1-2 months, and go straight from that into week 1?

Without preseason games, the Saints would not have Lance Moore, or PT, or Ivory, or De La Puente, or Abdul-Quddus, or Galette...

08-27-2012, 02:15 PM	#8
Tobias-Reiper Merces Letifer Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,161	Re: Questions from texans vs saints game Originally Posted by Saint_LB ...and then people go on and on about the game. How can you do that? It didn't count. It wasn't being played the same way as a regular season game would be played. How can you make any intelligent observations at all? You know that most teams keep it vanilla. Oh, boy! /rant It may not be a "real" game, it may not count in the standings, but still, I want to see tendencies. Especially this season, when there is a completely new defensive system. Watching these preseason games, I can see things that I have not seen in NO in a while, like controlled blitzes, players wrapping their arms around the opponent instead of launching shoulder first, CBs actually contesting balls from the WRs... And when you think about it, would you want to go into the regular season with a new defensive scheme without trying it out first, being able to evaluate which players do better on the new scheme? Or would you want Spagnuolo just to guess who may or may not be a good fit on his scheme and go with that Week 1? And how about the offense? Would you think it is enough for the offense to just practice against the same scheme for 1-2 months, and go straight from that into week 1? Without preseason games, the Saints would not have Lance Moore, or PT, or Ivory, or De La Puente, or Abdul-Quddus, or Galette... Saint_LB likes this.
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