Ask A Saints Fan

what scares you the most about the Giants offense? Or the defense?

Some of us have literally pissed ourselves when contemplating your awesome defensive line. I am not one of them. But it has been a bone of contention. bozhe moi!

p.s. Is Drew Brees referred to as an "interception machine"

Not quite that bad. The discussion centers on whether all those picks are really Drew BREEESSS!!!‘s fault. He has pinpoint accuracy. Unfortunately, the margin of error is often a gnat’s ass, so he gets picked off.

Mark Ingram was so highly touted that a condition called INGRAMANIA!!! occurred on CSC. Some national writer summed it up pretty well, using 10 games of hindsight: He’s good, but he’s not great.

We have some big Martez Wilson fans. They should probably have their medication adjusted. I for one am not impressed.

Colston as primary.
Sproles and Lance Moore as second or third options. Sproles has surprised all of us with how quick he is or seems to be (since he’s so short) and he also can run it up the middle. Lance Moore catches nearly everything and talks a lot of smiling trash about it afterwards. I think he’s underrated and overlooked. Hopefully he’ll score so you can watch him do his thing on the endzone dance floor.

(I’m just going to keep commenting here until one of my more distinguished colleagues takes over) The Portuguese kid is pretty ordinary. Which is good, he can’t be screwing up too much because no one says much about him. Kreutz was an enormous disappointment. He sucked on the field and then quit. Some admired him for being honest but I resent him for bringing his personal and professional issues to town. He would have continued to play badly, but they told him the kid was going to start and Kreutz would be benched, so THEN he quit. F****** Bears. At least Alex Brown played out the year.

Brees does not come out of games, generally. Even blowouts. I don’t think Chase has taken a snap at all this year.

Right here. That word “elite” triggers some strong emotions. He’s got that ring on his finger and that means a lot. To me, any way. I think Eli is a smart QB and I think he can be great. But Brees is something else. Tremendous competitor, unparalleled work ethic. I believe he actually has improved his arm strength since last year, he’s throwing farther down field. And I am viewed as a Brees critic among my peers at CSC.

I’ll say this: If Brees incurred a career ending injury and Eli was a free agent, I would have no problem with the Saints picking him up.

I think Eli is in the upper echelons of QB play and moving in the right direction. At this point I don’t consider him an elite QB yet.

Call me on my Homerism, but I think Brees has long since solidified his spot in the elite QB group. He has been so consistent for so long now its incredible to me. Yes picks are high, and while I won’t clear him of all of them, it is amazing how many of them are a result of tipped/bobbled passes by his WR’s as opposed to outright brain fart throws. He is so good at throwing that ball into tight space that I think sometimes even he forgets that his WR’s might have a tough time getting their hands on some of those throws cleanly.

Too many people expect him to be Peyton and it aint happening,no one is Peyton except Peyton he is in a class of his own
I believe he is much better then Phillip Rivers who he also seems to be linked to alot since the draft
He has led your team to a superbowl win against a 18-0 team who everyone thought was the best team of all time

Elite? No. He’s not quite on Brees’ level. But realistically I only consider about 3 QBs elite in Brady, Brees and Rogers. Eli is a top QB. I just think elite gets thrown around a bit too much. As far as I’m concerned he’s a legitimate top 10 QB that probably hovers around 7-8 on the NFL depth chart. Nothing wrong with that….nothing wrong at all.

Reggie Bush was magical at times with the Saints and I liked him a lot, still do. But the injuries took their toll. A lot of guys don’t like him and claimed to never have liked him. Sproles is so short (5’ 6") that he does not lean over in the huddle. Seriously, he stands straight up. He looks different then he did as a Charger somehow, probably in the way that Payton uses him. We are universally impressed with his performance and most of us are happy for Reggie because of what he’s been doing lately with the Dolphins.

Is doing for us what all of us hoped Reggie could do on a consistent basis. I loved having Reggie as a Saint. But considering we are getting a bigger bang for less bucks for a more durable player its a no brainer.

Personally, I am glad that Reggie is doing well as of late for the Phins. He is an exciting player to watch.

I’m feeling a lot better about this game.

Everybody hide your infants. I hope he has a good game as I am starting him in FF.

Who watches the Watchmen?

From what I recall of the Rams game, they had Brees uncomfortable all game. Taking away the screen pass and short crossing route plays. Eliminate Graham, Sproles and PT or Lance from the picture and Brees may start to force some throws.

Brees, to me, seems to force more throws when we are losing. Against the Rams, Drew tried to get some points on the board after a turnover resulted in the Rams going up 10-0. Forced his throw and whammo, 17-0.

if you can get multiple INTs from him, you’ll have a GREAT chance to win

The Saints usually do pretty well in the Dome on Prime Time. And they are well rested. Plus your team has the ability to put up quite a bit of points as well (although your running game is probably a little worse for wear than ours). I am thinking this is going to be a pretty high scoring affair for both teams.

No fortyburgers, unless the Giants quit (like the Colts did) and that’s not going to happen. I’m guessing both teams in the high 20’s and the game decided by a field goal either way.

new york great pass rush

31 sacks, tied for 1st in the league. The Saints O line usually protects Brees pretty well (top ten in sacks allowed this year) but I think he’s more vulnerable this year. That’ll be something to watch. Payton will put another guy on the line to help if things start getting out of hand.

I hope that the Saints O-line comes to play. As Stu has mentioned, they usually do pretty well keeping Brees protected. I think after that Rams game they were really annoyed with how abused and rushed Brees was. They did a 180 after that. Hopefully that solid play continues. I am hoping Brees will be able to stay on his feet all day.

Looking at your sig line, still a Denver fan first and foremost? Are you a fan of Tebow?

Actually rushing 3 and dropping back 8 is about the best thing to do again Brees. You don’t want to blitz him, you want to get to him with 3 and 4 man rushes and cloud the throwing lanes 5-10 yards beyond the line of scrimmage where Brees throws 98% of his passes.

I think you overdid it on the Turkey man. Ha.

Unless CC Brown and Aaron Rouse are suiting up Monday night, I expect the Giants to bring the Saints down to their level and slug it out in an ugly game that will be decided in the 4th.

but our best RB may be Pierre Thomas

he was running for good average last week, but the playcallers just did not keep giving him the ball

he’s also our best screen pass runner

Cameron Jordan is one of our rookies who is quietly putting together a decent season for a rookie…

had two GREAT games in Weeks 1 and 2, and has done nothing since then, and some keep thinking he’s “about to break out” again

Patrick Robinson # 21 is a second-year man at corner who has turned some heads with his play – he’s been starting some with Tracy Porter # 22 being injured

and Malcolm Jenkins has NOT taken the “next step” everyone thought he would after developing a rep in his second year (2010) of being a hard-hitting ballhawk, so don’t expect much from him

he did play well in a game or two, but then not so well, and then he was gone…

Danny Clark on Roto

the Saints had him last in Aug, but he hurt his knee…

I am going to link them to this AWESOME comment.

The only aspect of Fewell’s defense I don’t agree with is rushing 3 on 3rd and long. If I told you all 2 weeks ago that we were going to key in an Frank Gore and Lesean McCoy and completely shut them down, putting the games on Alex Smith and Vince Young to win, and really only be responsible for 1 TD in each game, how would you feel?

For the insightful comments.

All anyone remembers from the defense during the Philly game is that they failed during the final drive. But you correctly point out that they gave our offense the ball again and again.

Our Oline will be the teams undoing if they don’t play better. Period.

I think most Saints fans know how and why we lose and win
I haven’t heard any Saints fans dog out the G-Mens defense
I believe the Saints blow the top off we also have a way of showing up big in games against good teams and laying an egg against bad teams
This is a pretty split thing our defense has let alot of yards but we step up big on holding teams to FG’s and were pretty happy with that we feel we do well trading FG’s for TD’s
Our left tackle is fickled,he has played well against bull rushers but I dont think he is good against speed rushers he has played some good games and layed some eggs I look for Sean Payton to give him lots of help
You still have Brandon Jacobs so you should be able to run on us
If i could answer why were not generating turn overs I would be on Greg Williams front porch screaming the answer till he was forced to listen or have me arrested
Falcon they know us well being a div. rival and although we have owned them lately I think we have won 7 of the last 9 they are either 3 point games or go into overtime
There’s a good chance he would but lets not forget Matt Shaub I think Texans are about to find out how MVP he is and also Scam Newton did anyone really fear the pansies before he came along

We over stack 1 side alot we bring our safety Roman Harper but then drop a linemen
As I saw this morning on NFL matchup alot of what Harper does depends on the TE
If the TE stays in to block Harper is coming most the time if he runs a pattern he doesn’t come
Harper leads our teams in sacks because our DC gives him alot of freedom