Sunday, September 15, 2013

Saints Report # 2 - September 15, 2013

The 60th minute (or is it the 59th) of the first two games of the season have been berry berry good to the New Orleans Saints.  They Breesed into Tampa and got beat up and pushed around by a Tampa Bay team that seemed to have the game in hand at about the 58 minute mark.  The Saints offense played sloppily under duress and then pulled out a field goal on the last play of the game to edge the Bucs 16-14.  Fortunately, NFL games go 60 minutes. 

Like many football games, there were some surprises:

Surprise – the Bucs harassed Drew Brees into several mistakes and a most uneven performance.

No Surprise – the Saints couldn’t or wouldn’t put a running game into play.

Surprise – the Saints defense continued to perform well

No Surprise – Quiet Storm Marques Colston came through with a huge clutch catch to set up the winning field goal as time expired.

Surprise – The Saints took a field goal off the board to go for a touchdown

No Surprise – Mark Ingram couldn’t get the job done from inside the 1.

Surprise – Coach Payton continued to use Mark Ingram while Pierre Thomas is clearly better in almost every capacity.

No Surprise – Drew Brees bounced back from some poor throws with a stellar drive to the winning field goal.

Surprise – The Saints defense is causing turnovers.

No Surprise – with the Saints defense playing this well, they start off 2-0. 

This was a tough road win.  Good teams often win when maybe they don’t quite deserve it.  Saints fans would do well to forget the how, and just enjoy the record.

Meanwhile, we just have to beat the dead horse.  Once again Coach Payton is persistently trying to extract value from a first round pick used on a running back.  Can’t help but wonder why Payton doesn’t see on film what we can all see on TV.
 
So, recalling the heat Reggie Bush took, thought it was time for a thoughtful comparison:

 
Reggie Bush
Mark Ingram
College Accolades
Heisman surrendered
Still has Heisman.
Dancing behind the line
Dances too much
Won’t dance, don’t ask him
Hitting the hole
Hesitant to hit the line
Wouldn’t recognize a hole
Taking on tacklers
Quick to run out of bounds
Not quick enough to get to the sideline
Evasiveness
Tried to run away from tacklers
Seeks out tacklers
Power
Not a power back
Powerless
Penalties
Got taunting penalties
Has nothing to taunt about
Moves
Jukes and Jives
Straight ahead runner
Breaking tackles
Very rarely
Breaking hearts
Blitz Pickups
Not a strong suit
Watch out Drew!
Feet
Quick feet
Feet in Concrete
Social Life
Dated Kim Kardashian
On twitter
Injuries
Injury prone
Injury prone
Vertical Jump
Could leap tall buildings
Would run straight into a building
Catching Passes
Great hands
Unknown

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