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Graham, Loftan and Jordan have been upgraded to probable.

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More rest for sproles and Jahri I'm not mad

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Jahri may miss this week so it looks like lelito will be filling in for him

Lelito is a pretty good player to be fair

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Not too surprised we are banged up... Played a very physical game and then you head into a short week. If we weren't playing til Sunday I think everyone on this report would play, but I imagine we will be missing Evans and Sproles at least.

Not impressed with Lelito. He got is butt handed to him against the Cards, he gave up 3 sacks in his only start.

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Yeah it was pretty brutal. Especially early on in that game, he settled down, but rough all around.

I would be worried if he had to start and play an entire game again.

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Agree on Lelito. I'd be uncomfortable if he had to play a whole game.

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I think it might be time to let cadet and the guy we picked up from canada take over special teams duties. I like having sproles back there but I'd rather see him be limited to just offensive possessions now. He will be important for us down the stretch.

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@MikeTriplett: #Saints made minor changes to injury report. TE Graham, DE Jordan, LB Lofton listed as probable. G Tim Lelito DNP for non-football reason.


http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf...ts_play_1.html

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Well we tried that against San Francisco and we muffed a punt.

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Who is it that I'm thinking of then? we have another guard that came in during a preseason game and did a great job?

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I am not crazy about it either :cool:

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Not sure Lelito did well against the scrubs but in his first start he was awful. That can change and he could get much better of course but I would rather see Harris start being that he has more experience and is much bigger. To be honest I would like to see Strief start over Grubbs and Armstrong start at RT. Zack and Evans would make a very large pair to help our running game.

I would hate to see our line take and steps backward as it seems to be improving a lot over the last few weeks. I hope that trend continues and we run the ball down their throats. Here is to another 100+yd game for Ingram lol.

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I think on short weeks the NFL is lenient with the accuracy of the injury report.
Everyone is questionable? no problem
just another idiosyncrasy of the short week
we've had a blow out with Lelito in, and losses with a healthy line--the difference is a 3 and 5 step drop and one of the 1st two reads being open

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Cadet didn't muff the punt. Sproles did. Or maybe Moore. I forget. Not a reason to take them off return duties, but I agree Cadet should take over and let Moore and Sproles just play offense. Too much of a risk of injury which we can't afford at this point in the season.

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Moore.
Sproles was the week before

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I'd imagine the staff didn't think Lelito would be forced into action as soon as he was. He beat out some pretty good interior talent to make the 53. I expect he'll get better and better every time he gets a chance.

Harris is an OT. Not sure he has that phone-booth power to excel inside. But I remember Strief commenting on how much Harris progressed and he expected good things out of Harris.

Harris and Lelito making the 53 over Jones and Tiller tells me they see something special.

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Sproles really hasn't been that effective.

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Agreed Rug, we're 3rd to last in the NFL in punt returns.

Its time to try something else.

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I really hope we can open up the run game this week. If Sproles is out, I think we should try out Cadet out at punt return.

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Having Cadet back on punts would really scare the hell outta me.

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and maybe Atlanta
that KR was a momentum changer

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Muffing a punt would be exactly the reason you would remove someone from punt return duties. The only thing totally unforgivable on a punt return is to lose possession of it to the other team.

Ironically Sproles had the same issue the game before, but chances that will ever happen again are almost 0. He is our safest option to field punts. That ability can't be taken lightly. You simply don't just try another option to see how it goes.

Same reason a good running back will be benched (see Reggie Bush and Steven Ridley this past week) when they fumble. It's not tolerated.

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Lelito as a blocking fullback was absolutely money!

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Did I read that right almost the whole OLine is jacked up? Dang this game with Atlanta is going to be rough.

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Sproles muffed a punt against the Cowboys. Also, it was Lance Moore who muffed the punt against the 49ers. I think we should have Cadet doing the punt returns to save Sproles for the post season. :)

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Who's been muffing those field goals?

HE still has a job.

Alaska

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good thing, he's the reason we got the W against the 49ers.

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Blessing in disguise I hope. Keep him out of punt returns and keep him ready for Offense.