Danno

He was horrible when we moved him to nickel.

Saintaintso

I expect to finish top 10 ish ... Because of our offense , if they can't score On Their first 3 or 4 drives we could have 21 or at least 14 points On The board , which means to come back they'd have to comeback by throwing ... Make even the best passer one dimensional and it's over , let last season be a lesson

saintfan

I love me some Porter - smart enough to know what was coming and make a play on Manning in the SB. What an amazing moment in my life, for real.

But I agree with the greater football minds here. I think we've got better players now. We're gonna rock the teens with our defensive ranking this year, fo sho. Our recent problems have been due to a scheme that didn't fit the people we had and took away their ability (and desire) to be aggressive.

Halo

If we could stop SOME of the average teams and marginal players we encounter from making HUGE plays, we would be better.

If we could cut big yardage plays to allowing one big play every other game we would be improved.

These are terribly low expectations, similar to asking a 5th grade kid to make all D's and D+'s on his report card so he would be considered a genius.

Seriously, last years performance on defense by the Saints was one of the worst I've ever seen in ALL of football ever. And yes Spags disserved every bit of being FIRED! 3 nuns and my labrador retriever could have stopped teams better than if we had 13 defenders on the damn field last season!

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Mardigras9

Just glad to hear something positive associated with the word defense.

TheOak

What we have on board has not seen much of effective pass rush in a while. Lets see what they can do when every QB we face doesn't have 5 minutes to have a sammich and complete a pass.

homerj07

Having us in the teens is unreasonable, to me.
It's a new defensive scheme with new players and many old(er) players moving to different positions. If we can get to 20 I would be ecstatic. That with our O is an awesome team!

Luda34

I like it keep it up I can't wait to see what this guy Eric Martin looks like agains the K.C this weekend

Danno

Thats the guy I want to see the most. I suspect he'll look good since on-field performance is the reason he's here. It certainly wasn't his size. If he was two inches taller and 10 pounds heavier he's probably a mid-round pick.

I think he'll shine. Keep an eye out for #55.