dizzle88

So, it seems like through 5 weeks of our teams play, Pete Carmichael has been calling the plays for the offense.

In my opinion, with Pete Carmichael, our offense has a tendency to start fast and gain an early lead, then coming out in the 3rd quarter we get "three and out" syndrome. This means we put our D in a tough position, they start to allow big second half totals and our offense ends up playing catch up in the 4th quarter.
It's exactly what happened during Oakland, San Diego and Carolina.

Now, my main thought is - Has Sean Payton given exclusive rights to the offense to Pete Carmichael so he can keep his eye on the defense? Multiple ex-saints mentioned that Payton got far too involved in the D and changed what was working to suit himself.

I was all for getting rid of Rob Ryan, now I think that Sean Payton is really to blame for the defense.

Injuries have decimated our secondary, I will agree with that, but all those players are in the NFL for a reason.

Buffalo with Rob Ryan - 7th ranked scoring D with 17.2 points per game.

Saints D with Dennis Allen (Sean Payton) - 28th ranked scoring D with 33.6 points per game - Only because we have had our Bye Week, in total points we are 10 points away from last place, last place is Oakland who haven't had their Bye week yet!!!

I just think it's a little too coincidental that we had a very intimidating and aggressive D in 2013, then in 2014 when we sign players like Byrd it all falls off and multiple reports of Sean Payton getting too involved in the D come out.

Is Payton letting Carmichael call the plays so he can mess with the D? If he is it really needs to stop, Sean is an offensive genius and a defensive dunce.

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