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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by poydras We're 5-0 and you think I'm going to jinx us by changing my prediction?!?!? I'm going to pick us to lose every game from now on! We trust ya', you're a doctor, ... plus, it's only ...

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Old 10-07-2013, 08:36 AM   #161
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Re: I'm afraid we're in trouble.

Originally Posted by poydras View Post
We're 5-0 and you think I'm going to jinx us by changing my prediction?!?!?

I'm going to pick us to lose every game from now on!
We trust ya', you're a doctor, ... plus, it's only crazy if it doesn't work, .

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Re: I'm afraid we're in trouble.

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[B]The way the offensive line has played the first quarter of the season, including two of the highest paid guards in the league, there is cause for concern...

Armstead needs to kick it in gear and replace Brown, who's awful...

Strief looks real bad, getting off-balance often, he looks like the worst wrestler in a Sumo D league...

DeLaPuente seems to be regressing and unlike former Center Jon Goodwin, gets overmatched often...
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Strief has graded out as nearly our best O-lineman this year. Brown has done OK, not great but certainly not awful.

DLP? I agree, he looks like the weak link.

Evans has actually been our worst O-lineman, but thats 100% due to playing injured in my opinion.

A healthy Evans would solidify that interior.
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Old 10-07-2013, 10:56 AM   #163
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Re: I'm afraid we're in trouble.

O-Line performance is weighted heavier on "Unit cohesion and performance as a unit" than individual strengths and weaknesses. You could pull the top 5 offensive lineman and if they do not play well as a unit there will be issues.

Our O-Line issues this season are more about having made changes than what changes were made.

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Old 10-07-2013, 06:13 PM   #164
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Strief has graded out as nearly our best O-lineman this year. Brown has done OK, not great but certainly not awful.

DLP? I agree, he looks like the weak link.

Evans has actually been our worst O-lineman, but thats 100% due to playing injured in my opinion.

A healthy Evans would solidify that interior.
Strief may grade out well, but he looks so slooow when decent speed rushers shift to his side and blow by him; now, is he getting points for those 'look out' blocks I've seen?

Brown has been called for holding in every game, well maybe not the Bucs game, but I think the ref called that on Evans in error because Brown ws definitely holding though Evans clearly wasn't and analysts questioned as much...; certain plays linger in my mind, like Drew's awful interception against the Bucs made more awful by Brown's attempt to stop the return...

Grubbs? Dude got thrown like a toy in the MNF Miami game; and for what he's contracted, he should be doing the throwing...

DLP worked his tail off to get here and is either injured (not reported) or is in a "I'm just happy to be here" mode which is good for traveling church choir attitudes but Not For Long in the NFL...

Do Agree with regards to the Evans injury and his very competent backup's Leilito's injury having a significant effect; but we put two offensive linemen on IR to start the season so who's gonna cry them a river?!?

Is it too late to trade Mark Ingram to the Rams (where he'd be a better fit) for Barrett Jones?!?


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its 1500+ lbs of synchronized swimming.
First a sloth riding a corgi, now this? Oak, I may need to have my eyes removed!
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Re: I'm afraid we're in trouble.

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Is it too late to trade Mark Ingram to the Rams (where he'd be a better fit) for Barrett Jones?!?

You and I both liked Jones in the middle rounds didn't we. I think we look at a stud center for 2014, either FA or early rounds in the draft. Imagine a player like Pouncey playing center flanked with Grubbs/Evans ?
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You and I both liked Jones in the middle rounds didn't we. I think we look at a stud center for 2014, either FA or early rounds in the draft. Imagine a player like Pouncey playing center flanked with Grubbs/Evans ?
Won't work, the Flying Wedge was outlawed decades ago...

Interior Line is definitely a priority as I think 8mil is 6mil too much for guard(s) so I'd geaux Rookie Uber-Guards that still want to run block, especially when we've got the 16.3mil Tight End Contract coming...

Ever scouting report I've read on Jones talks about his smarts and personality - he'd be the modern day Art "Fatso" Donovan and would study and call the blocking assignments under a Payton/Brees Tutelage...now that intrigues my football brain like Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) would intrigue other parts of my brain...

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Re: I'm afraid we're in trouble.

Originally Posted by poydras View Post
We're 5-0 and you think I'm going to jinx us by changing my prediction?!?!?

I'm going to pick us to lose every game from now on!
I am too proud of out team to pick against them... Would have helped your argument a bit had you come to that realization before the game...
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Is this the week the Offensive Line gels and we get a running game going?!?
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Is this the week the Offensive Line gels and we get a running game going?!?
It would help against the Pats. But, gut check tells me we are going to be OK without it. I still WANT a running game though.
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