SaintsBro

I secretly thought that they were gonna fix it over the bye, after the slightly stronger showing of the run game in New England. If they were gonna tear up the playbook and make the big switch, that would have been the time to do it.

I'm not so sure they can just flip a switch and go back to their old scheme in a single week, anyway. That's gonna be extremely messy, and for a team that's already way sloppier than normal, look out....

I will say this, I hardly ever criticize Payton, but this switch to zone blocking is the one solitary idea of his that I have really *not* bought into, ever since he first brought it up. From the very beginning, it felt to me like tinkering, change for the sake of change, or fixing what wasn't really broke in the first place. Unless there was something to it that I couldn't see, I never understood the reasoning for making the switch. Maybe he was watching a lot of the Texans during his year off, or all those practices we had with them, or something.

TheOak

I am hoping they save the surprise for a game that counts.

When you've played a blocking scheme for years, its like riding a bicycle.. Part of the issue we are having now besides that we are not built for it is that our linemen are having to think more than react, its evident in the amount of missed assignments and missed blocks. Getting back on the bike wouldn't be as messy as what we are doing now.

Playing Man is easy, you have a certain man you block according to the play called. Zone is the biatch because you are responsible for a gap and do not know which Defender is coming at you from which direction.. hence the need for agility and good feet so you can adjust.