jeanpierre

These are the guys that have got to step up against the G'nats...

Brandin Cooks - Love the guy, but it was a mistake to move up and draft him, especially to be an X-receiver when he lacks the physical size to do so; nonetheless, the G'nats are banged up at CB; Payton needs to move Colston to the X-receiver (yeah, that bum lower leg/ankle/foot) will make it difficult for him to get off the line, but Cooks needs to operate out of the slot and get in space to be effective...

John Jenkins - the G'nats are all about play-action passing; Jenkins has to lead the defensive shutting down the run, making the G'nats one-dimensional and allow the Saints to sit in zone and wait for the inevitable Eli mistake throwing into zone coverage as the pocket Manning trust collapses led by Jenkins; of course, the Saints have to capitalize as they did in the first half against the Colts...

Drew Brees - Brees is only completing 37% of his pass attempts beyond fifteen yards this season; I'd expect to see some more of the roll-out design giving more time for our receivers to get downfield to open up the field for both the running game and C J Spiller on the wheel routes and underneath/middle field stuff; either way, Brees has got to start connecting downfield...

Kenny Vaccaro - if ever there was a need for him to step up and exploit athletic mismatches - this is it...when the G'nats offense stalls they resort to dink & dunk to keep the team on the field and regain rhythm - this is when Vaccaro has to step in aggressively and create turnovers...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

darstep

Eli gets erratic under pressure.
Collapse the pocket around him and he'll start throwing it up for grabs.
Once again, take away his running game and make him have to beat us.
Our defense will turn the tide if we are able to win.
We will score. We have to keep them under control.

Rugby Saint II

Defense wins games.......I hope ours shows up.

Marlboro Man

We need to stuff the run and make Eli beat us. If Swann and Lewis are ready to go, I see a few INT's coming our way.