Audiotom

I am looking at what he is and isnt doing on the field

When Cam smiles, makes those stupid dances etc for a first down, etc

You don't see any other qb ( well maybe Kaep with the bicep flex) acting that way.

Sitting on the sideline under a towel while other qbs are studying the opposing defense formations.

Kind of like kids slouching out with their legs on a nice sofa at a public place

Sorry, but thats what many people see

WhoDat!656

I wish people would quit crying about our salary cap situation!!! The Saints were in salary-cap hell last year and we signed Jarius Byrd AND Jimmy Graham.

Loomis will work his magic and massage the contracts of Brees and some of the other high dollar vets will either re-negotiate their contracts if they want to stay with the Saints or they will be let go.

The Saints are still the team to beat in the NFC South and to some degree in the NFC.

Carolina is a team that plays good against weaker teams or teams that aren't playing their best. They are one and done in the playoffs.

The failclowns are like the cooter on a 90-year old woman; everyone knows its down there but no one gives a damn!

The Bucs are years away from being more than a spoiler!

"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."

jlouhill

I give credit where credit is due. Carolina was the better team this year. But, as long as they have Cam at QB they will only go so far. Their D is the only thing keeping them competitive. His passing game is too inconsistant. If it weren't for his legs he would already be someone else's backup. They got healthy and hot at the right time. But consider who their four game winning streak came against to close out the season. They beat us and Atlanta, the 31st and 32nd ranked D's in the NFL. The other two wins came against Cleveland and Tampa by a combined 6 points. Now they beat a team in the playoffs with a 3rd string practice squad QB and a D that peaked weeks ago, has been on the decline and couldn't tackle anyone in a phone booth. They're going to get destroyed next week.

What goes around comes around!

UK_WhoDat

Yep.

Tomorrow? Who knows? I ain't gonna mouth it about a future that no one knows.

MatthewT

Carolina had a horrible year but played very good down the stretch when it counted. Due to all the rest of the division having a crappy year, they won the division. I am not taking anything away from them, but I am not ready to declare them as the team to beat in the division just yet. As for Cam, he is steadily getting beat up on a regular basis, I don't see him as a long term solution unless he learns the finer points of the passing game and stops trying to act like a fullback.

Foot Stomper

Let the Panthers win next week and I will giver them abit more credit than being nothing more than the tallest midget in the NFC South. Having said that they are the best team in the NFC South. They are hungrier than we are. They have better coaching than we have. They come out and play 60mts of football. We don't.

As for their team.

They have but a few solid - all pro - talents but surrounded them by a bunch of no name, hungry guys and coached them up. Left for dead a few months back they took advantage of what was in front of them - a weak division. They purged some slackers and brought in more no names but guys that were coachable and hungry. Something the all mighty Saints and Falcons couldn't do. For that they get a ton of cred but they are still a mediocre team until they prove otherwise.

Their Schemes.

On Defense they got it together on the DLine after misfiring abit early on. The loss of Domestic Violence convict Hardy hurt them early on it seemed. Their LB's are led by all Pro Kuechly - who get every call his way but is still around the ball every play. Their secondary is helped by the pass rush. Something else they do is play thru the whistle and take every opportunity to make a hit - particular on a QB even when it may be border line late. Something else we don't do but that I think is fine.

On Offense. They are using the QB's main talent they can count on which is size and legs to run. Passing is not his strength - at least not consistently. So they run him. If he last thru another year I will be surprised but again they are using his strength to win games now. My hope is he signs a blockbuster contract before getting hurt...and then the hits catch up with him. I think he has one more cheap year left before they have to lock him up which they probably take advantage of. They got Tolbert back (best FB in the league by a country mile), Stewart is running well, their TE is very good and the big FSU kid Benjamin is doing pretty well (he was my top hope for our draft btw).

ST's. They have a great punter and evidently better gunners than we have as they have success in playing a field position game that we can't seem to do. They have a great FG kicker who is for the most part young and money (missed one yesterday).

They want be able to draft high again this year which is nice as they draft way better than us. We draft projects that may never see the active game day roster. They draft football players that play on Sunday their first year.

I look for their fairy tale season to end next week...but they ARE the best team in our Division at this point. No denying that.

SmashMouth

vpheughan

Dallas wins it all and for the next year all we hear is Tony Romo this and Tony Romo that. How he is the greatest QB alive and Jerry Jones is a genius for taking 20 years and 10 head coaches to build this team!! There will be a silver lining though. Jones ego will be so much BIGGER he does what he wanted to do on draft day. He trades for Johnny Football!!! It'll be fun!!

WillSaints81

Right, Cam needs "weapons"

RailBoss

Also they don't have Steve Smith Sr. anymore, it makes them a little less hateable!