Brian Baldinger must be expecting a blowout
 

Segment on NFL Network where they were making Week 1 predictions and he said that Steven Jackson would run for at least 150 and that Matt Ryan would lead the NFL in passing yards week 1.

Bring on the non-believers! :bng:

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I don't see a blowout these two teams always seem to play a tight game against each other I think it will come down to a late FG. 4 out of the last 6 has been decided by 4 points or less

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Too bad the falcon's oline is dog ****, and so is their secondary. Good luck keeping up with Brees.

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They treat us worse than the cowgirls ... Who we owned last year ... Unless Brees forgets how to put his jockstrap on they're done for

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We will win 27-17, just like in my dream. I really hope my dream is right. :)

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I saw that, it really got under my skin. I guess he forgot how the Saints have dominated this series since Sean and Drew got here.

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At the risk of getting run out of town, there is a very real chance we could lose this game. When you take the black and gold tinted spectacles off, we are up against our biggest rivals who are coming off the back of a huge season and who have made some improvements whilst in other areas going backwards.

Is this likely to be a blowout in either direction? I highly doubt it. I do however figure that this is going to be an incredibly high scoring game. The Falcons offence is potent all around and this will be the first true test for our defence. I am not going to walk away from the SuperDome this Sunday (I have mentioned I'm going right? haha) being overly surprised if they drop 28 points on us. I do however think we can keep up quite comfortably.

31-28 Saints. Hartley nails a 50 yard FG with seconds on the clock to win when everyone is expecting him to hook the living bejeesus out of it and it only go about 38 yards :)

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Once again a prediction based on some idiot blindly throwing darts.

:flush:

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You can see me throwing darts from over there? What black magic is this???? :)

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pfft.
Matt Ryan can throw 4 TD's for 400 yards against us, but Drew could throw for 480 yards and 5 TD's. You got 2 good offenses, and 2 suspect defenses.
This will be a video game.

I will be having shots before I walk into the Dome Sunday, to reduce my risk
of stroke.

Where you sitting, Theb-Juh-Buh? (I have no idea what your screenie is
supposed to be, sorry.)

Saving vocal cords now!

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Hahaha, The B D J. Boring story, not going to tell it :)

I will be sitting up in Section 632 when I am in town this season but I actually own a season ticket in 140 (once again long story and boring).

As things stand I am in for this game and the 49ers game and then the Falcons road game. I want to try and squeeze another game in the middle if possible but then there is obviously the playoffs to consider! :)

Can we duke the game out on Tecmo bowl? Saints win 94-76 or something. Mark Ingram rushes for 3 miles! hahaha

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If this game is a blow-out, it will be the Saints doing it.

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Nothing to see here. Move along.

Most national media have the herd mentality. It's pretty simple: take the relative positions of the teams involved from last year (or over the last 8 weeks if in season), and project it onto the prediction.

So Atlanta was 13-3 last year. They were in the NFC Championship game.

The Saints were 7-9. They had the worst defense in the history of the NFL for a single season.

Projection: Atlanta will do well against the Saints.

Rinse and repeat for all 16 matchups.

Of course the missing element to this is that neither are the same team as last year.

Also missing from the the equation is that the historically bad defense from last year still managed to slow Atlanta down enough for the Saints to plunk their first loss on them last season, when Atlanta was 10-0 and the national media was already handing them the Lombardi.

I've gotten to the point where I pretty much ignore the national media except to see whatever meager Saints segments they deign to serve up once a month or so. I've been scanning through NFL Live for a month. I believe the only Saints segment was when Will Smith was injured. And that was in an entire month (interrupt by the Little League World Series for about 8 days).

It's going to be a close. It's always close. 1 superior offense (Saints) and one very good one (Atlanta). Two defenses that are each lacking. One very motivated SuperBowl winning head coach with 53 guys that would rather die than to lose to that Atlanta squad.

Personally I see 2006 all over again. Atlanta will be wondering where that Mack truck that hit them went when they wake up.

SFIAH

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If Baldy and Billick had sex they'd produce a falcon

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:stupid:

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They are not the only ones drinking the Kool-Aid. Half of the FoxSports1 crew picked Atlanta to win it all this year.

Billick does have somewhat of an excuse. Mike Smith is his Brother-in-Law. His sister would probably kick his butt if he wasn't a homer.

SFIAH

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Baldinger has, and always will be a Saints hater. Plus he's a moron. Who cares what he thinks.

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With no tackles and rabbit ear matty lice, it is likely to be a great day for us and not so nice for them. But it will be a basketball game not a football game.

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Line is Saints -3. That's basically saying it's a toss up. 4 or 5 plays decide this game.

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I'm not worried until I see their O-Line consistently block Jordan, Hicks, and our LBs...

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the falcons will go off on one thing, learning that.


THE BLACK AND GOLD ARE BACK. bald- ding-aling wuff wuff.

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Vaccaro picks off Ryan on a potential game-tying TD attempt to Gonzales.

Saints win 28-21.


Ray Lewis claims it is a conspiracy because the lights stay on for the entire game.

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This game is likely to be a repeat of the first game back after Katrina, as this is SP first real game since his unjust suspension. I am loking forward to a 52-2 Saints win.

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The dome will be louder than ever before and you know we will rock the all black uni's... can't wait for this game. I would have liked to play an easier team to start the season, but no one knows what to expect from this D and thats always a good thing.

42-17 Saints win

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There is no such animal.

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Rob hasn't shown much , Payton hasn't shown much and looked great preseason , they looked horrid and went 0-4 ... We dominate them regularly , they're overhyped , were serlverly overlooked , season opener in New Orleans , Sean Payton is back , they have a paper mâché line , this is our best D line in decades , they couldn't handle Colston graham and Moore , we picked up stills and toon , they have a weak secondary we have the best QB coach combo in the league , and we picked up a ballhawk in Vaccarro ...

I'm sure you see where I'm going with this

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The NFL alternates feel good team stories. A line up we are excluded from consistently.
The talking heads know as much as we do about the upcoming season so the lean on last season for talking points.

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I don't feel comfortable about this game in the least. Yes, we can score at will and put up 40+points. Yes, we can lose a game in the last minute. Yes, we can commit multiple penalties. Yes, we don't even know what the starting defense looks like. Right now there are too many unknown variables to pick this as a win.
I want to see them do it but can they change last seasons defense in one training camp? Hopefully, even probably but not definitely.

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There is nothing about last years defense that even remotely resembles this year.

It may take them a few games to get comfortable with all the formations, but they can't revert to last years defense.

If for no other reason than not playing mainly zone; that puts our secondary back in their comfort zone right there.

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His finger creeps me out.

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I was thinking more like 68-5.
Da Saints!
http://www.totalpackers.com/images/dabears.jpg

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Thats the thing, they have taken a back seat every season they have come off winning the division the previous year.

2009 they were ****, 2011 they crapped their pants, 2013 you can see it happening to.

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Drew will show again that he has the best defensive scheme in football. The "You can't score if I have the ball" takes care of this one.

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Which leaves me in a quandry weather to start Brees or Ryan as my QB this week. Lol.

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Both of those things could happen. Doesn't mean they'll win the game.

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True, a couple huge runs by Jackson, and then Ryan passing most of the 2nd half playing catch-up, inflating his stats in a 45-34 blowout.

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SJax has always given us fits. We have never shut that guy down - so do I think he will get 150? Very possible.

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Not behind that Falcon O-Line...

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I think we put it on them this game. We have to hold them to field goals. We probably are going to give up some yards but if we keep them in front of us we will be ok. It appears we have a very stout red zone defense and that is what I am counting on to take this game.

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Even though these kind of statements this are absolute proof that the NFL needs better helmets, Baldinger is still one hell of a name for a football player.