Saints Vent Thread

BECAUSE IT WAS BEING BROADCAST IN SOME 1950’s RETRO BULLSHIT FORMAT.

FUCK YOU ABC 13!

COME JOIN THE REST OF US IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY!

we have a stadium where if you punt it, the ball doesnt hit the big screen………

Compared to last year, this team looks the same: unable to stop anybody (especially against the run), unable to run the ball on third and short, unable to convert third downs, and poor, poor coaching.

Gary Kubiak sucks as a head coach. Some people say he’s a great motivator and good with the players. Really? Like these people are on the team and can tell as much through the tv screen? I saw a really unmotivated team on tv. Kubiak makes dreadful game managment decisions. He challenged his way out of a much needed sack by Mario Williams on Saturday. So, Mario gets a sack and they call back the fumble recovery. Before the challenge flag is thrown, I’m like “Don’t challenge that?!” The Saints weren’t going to challenge because they felt lucky to get the ball back and it looked like a sack. But you don’t challenge a sack when the opposing quarterback is doing all that hand waving while being tackled. Apparently, Kubiak doesn’t watch as much football as the average fan. Otherwise, he’d have seen the tuck rule in the snow game. You can invariably bet against Kubiak on challenges. It was a bad challenge and that’s why I just knew he would do it. He has this greedy arrogance about the way he goes about it. There’s a blind spot there. He’s had one of the worst records in challenges in the league the past two years. Challenges, time outs, managing game time, and game planning…

The game planning on defense is average to terrible every game. You know you’re not going to see a great game plan, such as an early attempt to take away the runs up the middle given that their guards are one of the Saints’ strengths. There’s just no ability to anticipate and strategize there. Despite everybody’s excitement at the change in defensive coordinator, the effect appears to be no change. I questioned this internal change to Frank Bush because if he could be that much more effective, why wasn’t he effective last year? He was on the staff. Did anyone catch the pre-game b.s. with three former Texans like Coleman and Sharper? Did anyone else notice them struggle to come up with anything constructive to say about the “we’re going to promote a more aggressive defense this year” question? So they just say “be more aggressive” and therefore the players do exactly what? Get blocked more aggressively? Being aggressive starts with the game plan. And I don’t see that happening.

I know it’s just preseason, but I left off on Saturday night with a bad taste of 6-10 in my mouth.