Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

Glad he admits it.

Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

Now if he’ll admit his offensive play calling needs to be less predictable, then we might actually move forward

Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

Sean would know, he coaches them that way

Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

Recognize the value of full 4 game preseason?

Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

Offenses across the league are scoring on a record pace. Defenses are way behind everywhere. I have heard several coaches saying that this isn't what they expected.

As for four game preseasons, they are a thing of the past. With the regular season expanding to 17 games and likely a second bye week two preseason games will be the max. If the NFLPA gets their way they could disappear completely. They would be missed less had we had OTA's and mini-camps. That was the killer.

Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

The Chiefs, GB, Titans, Chicago & the Steelers sure don't seem to be having much trouble getting out of the gate quickly.

Most of the Saints roster was in tact, not to mention Sean and Brees have been in the system over a decade.

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I think most of these injuries are partly due to no preseason and a short and less active otas and mini camps

Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

The Titans and Chicago have benefited from playing horrible competition. Chicago has played the Giants, Lions and Falcons. The Titans have squeaked by the Broncos, Jags and Vikes by a combined total of SIX points.

They were also not missing the NFC offensive player of the year if I'm not mistaken.

Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

This is what I don’t get , I hate the 49ers as much as the clowns probably more. Now getting back to scheduling . The 9ers were in the freaking Super Bowl and there 1st 5 games are to the likes of
Cardinals
Jets
Giants
Philly
Miami
Shouldn’t u get the 2nd hardest schedule in the league behind the chiefs?


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Re: Sean Payton says Saints 'looked like a high school team' defending these types of plays vs. Packers
 

The NFL is manipulating games and that is why scoring is up; if we were operating in an apples to apples situation, scoring would be way down...

Teams that have invested heavily in their offensive lines, like the Saints, are getting screwed because the NFL's officials are not flagging holding to the same standard as last season, previous seasons...

Also injuries are way up, and that is being looked at as a direct causation to a lack of PreSeason games...

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And what better reason for the NFL to want more “shootouts”?

None other than to improve ratings. Right or wrong, I do believe there is a discrete and identifiable reason for a changing of the “standards”. Last thing the NFL wants is lot’s of 9-6 games right now.

Not trying to say ratings are a complete dumpster fire, (looking at you AG, lol, and not wanting to necro an argument that’s already been heavily debated, lol), bc ratings aren’t a complete dumpster fire, they’re still the best thing on TV, but they definitely ain’t what the NFL would like to see.

Follow the money, you’ll find what the NFL values.

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The lack of crowd noise and pressure is ratcheting up offense. No team in the NFL will have lock-down defense this year, not even close, especially with all the injuries. I think we'll need to do more to adjust to this new normal.

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I would argue that we at least need two preseason games to evaluate our players and get the timing down before we start the regular season.