Halo

Yeah but we're so overloaded with skills players that potential starters on other teams sit bench and wait their turn. Way too many runningbacks.

All that while our o-line is kind of a fragile balance.
And what's worse.... we're the veteran talent to backup those young starts in the defensive backfield???

I blame coach Payton and Mickey Loomis. Our front office and coach may have lost touch with reality.

RailBoss

Agreed the Strief injury sure put the team in a tailspin. What was troubling is that we didn't adjust the O scheme until the 3rd quarter.
Absolutely no depth Strief has great job security.

jeanpierre

Most disappointed that Payton went against his nature and didn't go for touchdowns in the red zone...

Rsanders24

My main concern is that I didn't see that same fire on defense that I saw during pre season. If you let the Vikings put up 500 yards of offense you better be very concerned.

saintfan

Can we trade Peterson for some help elsewhere? Nothing against the guy, but he's a luxury we can't afford...

neugey

We would be well-served to look at what the Vikings are doing on each side of the ball to find answers on what we could do better - but I don't think we will, not one bit. And I fear that is most of what ails us.

WillSaints81

Our offense is the complete opposite of Minnesota's. They are aggressive, we are not.

burningmetal

They are normally quite passive, and early in the game they were again. But they (the Vikings) decided to explore the field beyond 10 yards and found that no one was there. They also found that no matter what they did, the Saints were not going to blitz and get Bradford off his rhythm.

It was a passive game plan on both sides of the ball for the Saints. Simple as that. I just don't get why.

saintfan

Passive is definitely the right word. Maddeningly passive.

WillSaints81

What I see what vikings did on offense is the receivers are coached to make tough catches and I saw Sam Bradford get a pass off with a pass rusher running straight at him in the second quarter. I Saw a lot of that before too with us. That has to do with physicality. Defensive oriented teams run offenses that play like that. I think the defense is tackling well it's just that you don't know where a QB is going to go. There was open instances in different areas in this game. One was open in a screen the saints did not even sniff out. One was open in one corner of the endzone. The vikings threw all kinds of looks. The only way to keep a defense fresh is keeping a game competitive. I don't think the pats receivers play like the way the vikings receivers did, but they have a QB named Brady.

Also, it was an emotional game because of Randy Moss. You're going to go in to that and score two FGs in the first three drives, you're eventually gonna get burned. That's not how you shut a home team up with playmakers.