Saints stomp Bears, move to 5-0 with Bridgewater

frydaddy · 10-21-2019, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by TheOak

Regardless of how you feel about Teddy or other people feelings about Teddy, I am not entirely sure you understand or have captured the impact of our Special Teams on that Bears game.

Neither a blocked punt nor a safety are common in this league, much less together, and when you manage to turn a teams first possession of a game into a safety after three plays you have impacted their game plan as well as put them on their heals. Then after our offense struggles to get to 3-20 at our 43 Morestead puts them at their 12... you just ate 1/2 the first Quarter off the clock with the only highlights being your defense and Special Teams.

See... There are things that others do not see which you see in Teddy, and there are things others see in our Special Teams that you do not see. No need to get all tired and tuned up about it.

Our special teams has been great overall this year. And the blocked punt for a safety was great. But the 102 yard kickoff return took the wind out of our sails quickly. I think even you said yourself in the game day thread that momentum shifted in their favor after that. Thankfully we got it back, but combining that with 2 missed FG's and a pretty lousy punt from Morstead that gave them good field position on their FG drive and I'd have to say that overall the ST unit was subpar yesterday. They weren't the reason we won the game, in fact their failures contributed heavily to the score staying close for as long as it did.

10-21-2019, 02:26 PM	#14
frydaddy 1000 Posts + Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Lafayette Posts: 1,964 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Saints stomp Bears, move to 5-0 with Bridgewater Originally Posted by TheOak Regardless of how you feel about Teddy or other people feelings about Teddy, I am not entirely sure you understand or have captured the impact of our Special Teams on that Bears game. Neither a blocked punt nor a safety are common in this league, much less together, and when you manage to turn a teams first possession of a game into a safety after three plays you have impacted their game plan as well as put them on their heals. Then after our offense struggles to get to 3-20 at our 43 Morestead puts them at their 12... you just ate 1/2 the first Quarter off the clock with the only highlights being your defense and Special Teams. See... There are things that others do not see which you see in Teddy, and there are things others see in our Special Teams that you do not see. No need to get all tired and tuned up about it. Our special teams has been great overall this year. And the blocked punt for a safety was great. But the 102 yard kickoff return took the wind out of our sails quickly. I think even you said yourself in the game day thread that momentum shifted in their favor after that. Thankfully we got it back, but combining that with 2 missed FG's and a pretty lousy punt from Morstead that gave them good field position on their FG drive and I'd have to say that overall the ST unit was subpar yesterday. They weren't the reason we won the game, in fact their failures contributed heavily to the score staying close for as long as it did.
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