Danno

An AB story I'll never forget, mostly...

We lost an important game and everyone was blaming AB for the loss, including the boobs on WWL. The coaches were irritated enough to invite Buddy D and company to a film review and show him exactly what the plays were, and exactly where AB was supposed to throw the ball to, and exactly where the WR was supposed to be but wasn't.

The very next day Buddy D admitted on air that yes, the plays in question were NOT AB's fault at all.

Two days later he's back on air blaming AB for those plays.

Thats when I became thoroughly convinced that Buddy D was an idiot.

saintfan

I remember that. People forget - more likely they choose to ignore - just what a bad team, particularly on defense, we were. Had we not had a Cajon homer...cut by something like 3 other NFL coaches already...waiting in the wings, maybe it would have been different.

And what's the first thing Jake did after his first season starting for carolina? He demanded more money. Oh how they roasted Brooks for that very thing.

Fact is he was one of the best things going back then. And that 3-13 record wasn't that the post Katrina no home games season?

Yes the haters (morons) gonna hate. Hate on, because yalls ignorance is showing. Much like Buddy's often did...but then I could never tell if he was sober...

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C'mon Man...

exile

No one his a moron on this thread. Look here saps:

One of the best Saints players in history: NOT
QB of one of the greatest games in Saints history: YES

So it really depends on what you want from the Saints HOF. Just great players or great players + players from amazing moments in Saints history.

Float on....

saintfan

Disagree. On multiple counts.

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exile

Float on saintfan... put on some Greatful Dead.

Jack Vegas

I remember this very well too.

I think Brooks was an easy scapegoat for a couple reasons, mostly because he didn't look the part. He had the skinniest chicken legs I've ever seen and a head (with his helmet on) that looked way too big for his body. He was shy. He looked awkward on the field. He could run like a deer and had a rocket launcher for an arm. But anytime he wasn't doing one of those two things he looked like the clumsy kid at school, which made his mistakes look even worse. And he wasn't out there yelling at people and being a fiery leader.

The racism angle is overplayed. I don't people in general disliked him because they were racists (although some did). I think they disliked him because the team wasn't winning enough games and he just didn't fit the mental image of what people wanted their favorite team's QB to look like. And I actually understand that.

But good Lord, those teams had a distinct lack of talent. When I say that I don't mean a lack of speed or size, we had a whole bunch of real fast guys with size and real big guys with speed. We just didn't have a whole lot of smart players. We had routinely one of the most penalized teams in the league. O-line would hold and false start all game long. I won't even get into the revolving cast of buffoons he put on the o-line. Jerry Fontenot was a decent player in his twilight years and LeCharles Bentley had a pretty good rookie season. Other than that it was straight trash for 5 years.Defense was full of Malcolm Jenkins/Tebucky Jones types who never took a proper angle or wrapped up on a tackle in their lives. And no discipline or accountability either. That's all on Haslett.

I still do not understand how Haslett could've been such a good defensive coordinator yet have such a bad defense as head coach. His big ideas were to move a pass rushing DE to middle linebacker (Clemons) and to put two giant fat guys in the middle of the DL (Hand and Jackson). Continually brought in guys like Jason Craft and Fakhir Brown and tried to convince everybody "hey these guys are pretty good" well maybe they were a little better than the super-crappy guy you had in that spot last year but it still ain't exactly "good." When your best linebacker is 142-year-old Darrin Smith you have some pretty big problems.

I could go on and on but I'd just make myself mad at the sheer incompetence.