Saints trying to work Cameron Meredith into game plan for Falcons
 

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Wait! I was told he was supposed to miss at least the first quarter of the season from someone here! This must be wrong, right?

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The article's tone sounds as if Payton didn't think Mer was mentally prepared.
That seems unusual for someone who had and entire offseason to learn. Let's get him in there and see what he can do!

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Like I said “lack of time” B.S. he’s supposedly been healthy for a month now. He’s a vet. It shouldn’t take him this long to get in gear.

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Where is he supposed to play? We need help in the slot, big time.

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Have any idea of how the timing is with Brees /Meredith at practice because I sure don't. He didn't get a lot of looks with the 1st team at t/c. Reps, timing, rhythm @ practice is paramount in a Sean Payton style of offense.

This is only week 3. As fans, all we see is the finished product on Sundays.

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Think they're giving him a try at middle linebacker

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I could see Brees lodging one in his helmet but only in garbage time so unlikely this game.

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Maybe.....just maybe he had a set back and hasn't had time to get on the same page as Drew.

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:banana:

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Where do you keep coming up with this garbage time crap? Can you get me into the coaches' meetings with you? That would be so cool.

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He didn't get practice reps until around the third week of preseason and then that was with the second string. They're saying he really didn't get a chance to get first string reps and actually work with Brees fully in 7 on 7's and 11 on 11's until this past week. That's where you get your timing down. As soon as he sees the field (sounds like this weekend) I expect him to get his share of looks.

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I'm not getting that either :confused:

Maybe he's still locked in on how bad Chicago's offense (trash maybe) was while Meredith was having back ups & tier 2 type QB's throwing him the ball?

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Let’s check them high school grades of his may tell us real story

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I don't quite get that read. The article's writer wrote something about the limited practice time hadn't given him the chance to pick up on all of the nuances of the offense. It sounds to me more physical and timing related. I would imagine it would take many repetitions in Payton's offense to be able to change offensive assignments based upon defensive alignments and to be on the same page as Brees on those calls. And then also have the timing down on all of those variations. From everything I have studied about Payton's offense, a given WR can have as many as three different routes on one base play and the defense would dictate which route is to be run. The timing is different, of course, on each different route. He needs to be on the same page as Brees since Brees is reading the same thing and anticipating where the WR is supposed to be at a certain count. This isn't something that can be accomplished in whiteboard sessions alone.

Meredith was about two weeks behind the other WR's in on field practice with Brees. This is basically Meredith's week one after four weeks of his version of preseason.

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Illinois State Athletics - Cameron Meredith

The real story is that Cameron Meredith was an honor roll student while lettering at QB for three years in high school.

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Recent sound byte from Cameron. Key words he uses on returning to form ... "rhythm, practice, reps with the 1st team, timing".

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Hmmm. Sounds pretty much what I was expressing. ;)

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Adrian Peterson has people spoiled when it comes to coming back from ACL tears. At least let him get healthy and play before you write him off.

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I don’t think anyone expected him to be ready. A lot of people didn’t like the signing because they thought he would take longer to heal. That being Saturday said Payton said he was ready physically a month or so ago. Either Payton lied or he just isn’t catching on. A vet should be able able to step in pretty quickly if they are as good as MerIdeth was made out to be.

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91% of the receptions will continue to go to the same players. That leaves everyone else with next to nothing. When Ingram returns it will only get worse for CM and Tre'Quan.

Only way would be injury related or if Peyton starts tinkering with something that is not broken which he won't. Brees does not have to spread the ball around as much having the best two players in the NFL right now. He never had that before so things look different.

Another thing, when MI returns and we get our run game online again forget about WR 3 and 4. They become next to invisible at that point.

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Brees is completing 81% of his passes which is insane. Introducing another target right now is not needed.

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No, that jives exactly with the timeline I gave. One month ago Meredith was given the okay to be full go. That's when he started working out with the second string ... week three of the preseason. Until this past week, according to Payton, he hadn't gotten all of the nuances of the offense down yet, much like the others stood weeks ago. Apparantly this past week they determined he was caught up enough to move up to the first string and start getting on the same page with Brees.

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You can't play winning football throwing to only two targets.

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It's actually 4 targets but those are seesawed more. That will continue if Brees keeps completing 81% of his passes which is stupid. Nothing is saying he can't keep doing that right now. Browns have a good D and they could not do it.

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As long as they don’t make it obvious that they’re looking to force feed him the ball.

Defenses will quickly begin to recognize what you’re up to.

Doubt Sean would do that though, he can be pretty tricky.

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This I agree with. We are going to need someone to step up be it Smith, Carr, or Meridith. I have about given up on the running game. Until Ingram gets back we are just going to have to Air it out and use Kamara. Either our two best players are going to get hurt or defenses will find a way to stop them if we don’t.
What’s Coleman doing these days? I’m sure his blocking alone wouldn’t hurt.

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He can also be pretty damn hard headed.

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Have people forgotten that our offense was at it’s best when Brees had 8 or 9 different people catching passes per game? I don’t understand being so critical of trying to get back to doing what we do best.

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Precisely, I love the stat from 2009 to 2011 when Brees led a scoring drive and it showed that he threw to 6 or 7 different people on one drive. That's when we were at our best.

Whilst Kamara is great, I hate that little flare pass we throw to him, far too easy for Defenses to read.

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You're joking right? When good D coordinators take away (it will happen) our #1 target, then what?

Did you watch any Saints football last season and the offensive woes (Snead disappeared on 3rd down) we had with pass catching to anyone not named Thomas or Kamara?

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The game vs Lions became atrocious very quickly. 45-10 up in the first half, offense couldn't convert a third down at all in the 2nd half, Lions scored 28 unanswered points and we got lucky on D to score a TD that sealed the game.

It will happen, our offense will sputter if they don't find another target.

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Like I said...if Thomas and Kamara were actually covered when Brees was throwing them ball it would be a different conversation. He isn’t forcing it to then like he did with Jimmy Graham. Meredith will make a difference though.

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Brees is not the key to us being a SB contender... it’s the running game. If we can start running the ball well again we will start putting more wins together. It’s not about Brees throwing to 100 different WRs or only targeting 1 guy all game, just run the ball well to set up the PA and keep the defense off the field.

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And the defense. We need a 16-20 defense

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The last two posts are good points. I think we have a top 15 defense if they would just do their jobs and stop trying to run a single-high safety.

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Getting more touches to another WR won't change anything because it's not an issue with Brees completing 8 of 10 passes. Nobody has that going on. Stop it first then it needs attention.

The D has to turn it around. The big strikes are killing us but that is what we do. Give up big 30 plus yards strikes consistently and then demand Brees bail us out. He can do it sometimes but not every damn game. They have to step up.

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It has already become an issue when we didn't score a TD until the 4th quarter vs the Brown's.

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Those receptions are being contained. They are not turning into scoring plays. A defense can give up short passes all day long as long as they contain the play. Having more receivers in play will spread the field more and lead to more explosive plays, thus more scoring.