WhoDat!656

In my article the other day in which I took a specific look at several of the speculations being given by fans and observers of the Saints for the (alleged) “decline” for QB Drew Brees, one that I purposely left off of that list until this morning’s coffee was the fact that the Saints WR’s so far have been nothing short of TERRIBLE. When a rookie is your leading WR and your only “deep threat” is your back-up TE, you officially are terrible. Alert the authorities and call out the search party — because these guys are M.I.A. (missing in action) in 2014.

BAD RECEPTION: Saints WR's are M.I.A. in 2014

"A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."

dizzle88

Colston, Morgan, Stills, Meachem

They've all done next to nothing all season

Colston looks completely lost and not confident at all, plus he's having a real problem both catching and not fumbling
Stills - looks completely scared going to make a catch
Meachem - he's always been big one week and absent the next, brees under threw him a couple times but he's still done nothing
Morgan and Toon - one needed to step up for playing time and neither has

If toon can't get active on game day ahead of this sorry group, then he isn't going to contribute to our team at all

Your bonehead creator picked a fine chapter to omit from your memory bank....let me ask you, does a machine like yourself ever experience fear? - Vegeta, DBZ

K Major

Yeah... I wonder if there is something personal going on with Colston? That's not him.

Barry from MS

Brew's absence through training camp with the oblique injury is showing up so far during the season. The timing is just a bit off between Drew and the WRs. Those timing issues lead to WR's getting exposed to big hits and we're seeing some alligator arms on some pass attempts. I know I've seen Stills and Colston do this a few times. I hope that's all it is.

The Bye Week should get that timing back, hopefully. It's only "Onwards & Upwards" from there when the timing is fixed...right?

WHODATINCA

Used to be it didn't matter who you threw it to because they were all going to catch it -- except Meach -- who will always get a pass from me because of that INT takeaway in 2009 against the Redskins. What I wouldn't give to see him do that just one more time. Now that is exemplary play. Passion for winning!!

Yes, the coordination between Brees and the receivers is off. But also, there has been:

1) Marshmallow hands
2) Failure to get separation and mental errors
3) Failure to actually get down the field in time ( read: slow as molasses)
4) Failure to fight for the fricken' ball
5) Good secondaries

And, Drew Brees has been less accurate this year ( notice I AM NOT SAYING he sucks ).

Shutdown defense in 2017 = Championship!

Barry from MS

Noted. We've discussed this at length, I reckon.

Honestly I think the accuracy issue has many factors. The missed time in camp, the 26th-ranked pass protecting O-line, the Golden Oblique, the WR's not fighting for the ball/getting separation/having marsh mellow hands, etc.

Let's hope this Bye Week fixes all ills so we don't have to revisit the ugliness of debating whether or not Drew is in decline.

WHODATINCA

Dear God, I hope so. Anything but the "in decline" debate. Anything. I'll even do cat pictures.

SloMotion

Nothing like a good dose of the "Detroit Lions" to cure what ails him, ... heck they made Kyle Orton (BUF) (yes, that Kyle Orton, ) look like a world-beater last Sunday & Bridgewater (MN) is already being referred to as "Touchdown" Teddy Bridgewater in some circles around here, .

It'll be alright, .

Rugby Saint II

Well??? We're waiting!

WHODATINCA

When people say Drew Brees is in decline, first, I'm like:




Then, I go like this: