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06-07-2019, 02:50 PM | #42 |
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Re: Reggie Bush, Marques Colston to enter Saints’ Hall of Fame
Jake Delhomme
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06-07-2019, 03:04 PM | #43 |
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Breaux Bridge's Finest. That's out West, St. Martin Parish, part of Lafayette greater area; he went to private school in Lafayette, then Southwestern LA (Now ULL); started as a true freshman at Southwestern...
And we let Delhomme geaux because we didn't want a QB controversy... |
06-07-2019, 03:11 PM | #44 |
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Re: Reggie Bush, Marques Colston to enter Saints’ Hall of Fame
Originally Posted by jeanpierre
The college name brought back nostalgia.
For me, this fine institution will always be called "USL" in my mind . Same goes for NLU aka ULM up in Monroe. |
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Yeah, the re-branding was a covert attempt to pull all the universities under one LSU umbrella, eliminate intra-state competition...
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06-07-2019, 04:27 PM | #46 |
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You know, I'm looking at this great Saints HOF class going in and I have only one thought - Drew is still playing, and at an elite level!!!
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06-07-2019, 07:21 PM | #47 |
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Re: Reggie Bush, Marques Colston to enter Saints’ Hall of Fame
Originally Posted by The Dude
Brooks was not the problem on those teams IMO. I know he wasn't an elite QB, but he was far from as bad as fans make him out to be. I'd rather have him than Bobby Hebert back in the 90's.
He was just fine in 2001, 2002 and 2003 (even outplaying Jake Delhomme that entire year. 2003 Panthers are one of the flukiest SB teams ever and really should've got their doors blown off by the Pats in the big game) 2002 season was derailed by Brooks' injury though. Haslett should've sat him and put Delhomme in, but my guess is that the team didn't want to end up having a QB controversy on their hands like they had with Jeff Blake after the 2000 season. |
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Re: Reggie Bush, Marques Colston to enter Saints’ Hall of Fame
Originally Posted by jeanpierre
Thanks for this reply JP, some great stuff.
You are definitely right that Mora never trusted anyone. His conservatism drove us crazy as fans. We were in a division with the 49ers, Falcons and Rams at the time. The Falcons were gutsy with Glanville's Run-N-Shoot offense and the 49ers were always an elite offense that didn't rely on conservative play calling. The Rams gave us fits too with Jim Everett (and then Everett got to beat them when he joined us. Those were fun days with our Rams rivalry) Some friends of mine often argue that Mora's type of offense was undone after Dalton Hilliard blew his knee out. It seemed Mora wanted a run-heavy offense that controlled the clock and relied on the defense to close games out. Hilliard was an elite RB up until that point and he was never the same again. He still came back and gave us great highlight reel plays with special teams, but he couldn't put up those big rushing numbers anymore. Mora also flamed out on Vaughan Dunbar. Not a fan of Hebert at all, but I'll give a tip of the hat to his 1991 MNF performance against the Raiders. I was at that game and still remember it. That was probably the best game of his career IMO. His play action fakes were amazing that night. We went into that game in a slump and the Raiders were kings of MNF at the time and we just wiped the floor with them that night. |
06-07-2019, 09:08 PM | #49 |
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Re: Reggie Bush, Marques Colston to enter Saints’ Hall of Fame
Originally Posted by jnormand
And that's where I feel we failed to utilize him properly...
In bantam football, we used a slot back, and that's where Bush should have started in formations - out in space, then he draws two, even three defenders to contain him, hence mismatches elsewhere... |
06-07-2019, 09:15 PM | #50 |
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Originally Posted by CHA_CHING
Believe the mantra of the Mora teams was that they played not to lose, not to beat themselves - Mora didn't play to win and that was exposed, contrasted in marquee match-ups, playoff games...
Don't get me wrong, Mora was immensely popular early on; in fact, there was legitimate conversations of having him run for governor after the early success... The late Mr. Jim Finks and Coach Mora's hard-nosed style turned this franchise around from the embarrassment that it was - and that contribution was necessary for this franchise to be where it it today... Regrettably though, Coach Mora refused to trust, evolve and it cost him long-term friendships, success for not only this franchise, but for him personally... |
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