hagan714

Ok i am going to admit i was wrong here. the biggest reason for the improved play is Bunkley getting hurt and knocked out of the rotation. John Jenkins has given the saints what they have missed for years. A solid DT to plug up the middle and push the pocket. I was not happy with the pick and in my wildest dreams didn't i see this coming. the kid has a motor after all. i eat my crow last week on this one. but i still wish we would have addressed the OL some how. he is playing like a seasoned pro


hold your horses there he has done a solid job handling the injury bug with the player he kept

Solid move by the saints. It is obvious that Robinson is not the answer. You can blame his play if you want ot blame the injury bug year after year. But the two together is not good. At this point i have White as our best option to date to replace Greer when the time comes. This is an area that saints need to keep an eye on

no not really well except Spags. He is doing what Williams did. Nothing really shocking. he is benefiting from that learning curve. core of the defense is still the same as when Williams coached

ok we are doing a hell of a lot more 43 than people may think first of so climbing on the 34 band wagon maybe a little much. So far all i have seen is much the same style of defense Williams ran. BUT Roy Boy does have more athletic youth on defense than Williams had.

Williams was going through the building phase of the offense. Now the past three years has been defense and we are seeing the gains. But we are seeing the effect it has had on the offense also. it is much the same ol same.

in so many words it the fact the defense is gelling finally after so many years and not so much a change in philosophy as just simple growth as a unit.

Funny how one year of a defense Spag'ing out makes everyone forget the previous years. This unit was not bad just needed time to grow and get some good youth added to it. It could have done without Spag Bump but in a weird way it did teach the basic fundamentals of defense to the unit. Gap responsibility has been the biggest improvement in my book and that i give credit to Spags coaching.

Amazing what 3 years of off seasons can do for a defense.

in adding players
Williams last year was solid
Spags despite himself did a solid job
Roy Boy also did a solid job

Change in philosophy?
nope all i see is we skipped a year and are back to doing what we did before. Attack the offense. That is what makes defense fun from the school yard to the pro's

Are we done building?
not by a long shot but we may have to turn back to offense in the 2013 off season. If the OL can not get its act together players will needed to be added. so the defense will get some seasoning added to it and it appears the offense will get the main coarse.

"We may have lost the game, but you'll be hurting tomorrow." Doug Atkins