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Vs. Saints Notes

  • Dissappointing.
  • Not without some positive signs, but definitely dissappointing.
  • The offensive line's struggles were very alarming. We couldn't run the ball at all for much of the game. Frye was under pressure almost every passing play. And the shotgun draw plays were a joke because the blocking was so bad. This is easily the most concerning thing to come out of this game.
  • The injury to Joe Jurevicius is the second-most concerning. What a huge, huge blow. That leaves us with very little at WR -- Northcutt and Edwards. Neither distinguished themselves.
  • The defense was okay. No pass pressure, which is a big problem. Pretty soft zone coverage, frustrating at times but effective more often than not. Seemed like we had some struggles playing the run at times -- as if linebackers were guessing wrong. Other times, however, the D was rather solid.
  • Reggie Bush didn't light things up, but the Browns seemed to have a poor strategy to match up against him. Most of the time, Ralph Brown had him in coverage and Brown usually got toasted. Ugh. Then again, who would be a good defender to cover Bush? You're not going to take your top cornerbacks and put them on a RB. You don't want to use a linebacker. I don't know what choice the Browns really had. No doubt, Bush is going to create a lot of match-up problems. All that said, I thought the Browns played him reasonably well and Bush never made a play that killed us. But he made a lot of productive catches and first downs.
  • Drew Brees looked very good to me. He was sharp, and looked Brady-esque in delivering the ball to whoever was open. He also throws a great swing pass -- a nice talent to have with a guy like Bush.
  • Did Willie McGinest play?
  • Did Pool play?
  • Good to see Winslow make an impact. He got better as the game went on. Needs to chill out about the no-catch ruling in the endzone.
  • Edwards... you can not drop that ball. Really, this scares the hell out of me -- big-time players make that play every time.
  • Droughns was okay.
  • Crennel just looked dissappointed on the sidelines.
  • What was up with Vickers in on short-yardage plays? I thought Droughns would be a better choice most of the time there.
  • Ted Washington made some big plays. But he was surprisingly blockable on some others.
  • Kevin Shaffer -- the heat is going to be on if you have another game like this next week. That was horrible.
  • Same for you Coleman.
  • Not that we have anyone to replace you.
Published Sep 11 2006, 05:00 PM by MikeB

Comments

 

Chris said:

Yes Shaffer was noticeably bad. Edwards has to make that catch. I first thought that it may have been thrown too hard by Frye but after seeing the replay it was 100% Edwards not being able to make a routine catch. Northcutt also had a significant drop on a 3rd down play earlier in the game.

September 11, 2006 5:23 PM
 

tomc said:

where the hell was Wimbley?

September 11, 2006 8:47 PM

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