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[Forge]

2 hours ago, NcFinest9erFan said:

Jags just fired Tom Coughlin 

About time. That FO was a complete mess. Just completely incompatible with the players

[NinerNation21]

11 hours ago, Forge said:

About time. That FO was a complete mess. Just completely incompatible with the players

True, but I'd still take that FO over the Bengals. I feel bad for every player that gets drafted to Cinci.

[NcFinest9erFan]

Diggs and Clowney can sit next week too

[TecmoSuperJoe]

 

[J-ALL-DAY]

Watching the Saints against us and the Pats today, I really hate how we truly do nothing creative or special on STs. Like those two teams use it as an advantage and try to generate points or big plays off of it. Sucks, really sucks......

[N4L]

8 hours ago, J-ALL-DAY said:

Watching the Saints against us and the Pats today, I really hate how we truly do nothing creative or special on STs. Like those two teams use it as an advantage and try to generate points or big plays off of it. Sucks, really sucks......

We actually started using some weird formations on punts a few weeks ago. Remember when goodwin was lined up 15 yards off the LOS so he could get a clean release, similar to canadian football? 

I honestly think we are saving some of that stuff for the playoffs also... no reason to use any of that now. 

[oldman9er]

5 hours ago, N4L said:

I honestly think we are saving some of that stuff for the playoffs also... no reason to use any of that now. 

Yes, this. Much like the talk of our Shotgun plays being stale.. I would guess that much like Andy Reid does.. Kyle is holding some creative plays close to the vest.. only willing to pull them out when desperation strikes. 

[y2lamanaki]

8 minutes ago, oldman9er said:

Yes, this. Much like the talk of our Shotgun plays being stale.. I would guess that much like Andy Reid does.. Kyle is holding some creative plays close to the vest.. only willing to pull them out when desperation strikes. 

If so (and I do believe there's a high probability of it), it's time to start taking them out. Any loss from here is essentially a season-ender (in the case of the Seahawks in Week 17) or an official season-ender (in the case of playoffs). So no more need to keep it close to the vest. 

[oldman9er]

1 hour ago, y2lamanaki said:

If so (and I do believe there's a high probability of it), it's time to start taking them out. Any loss from here is essentially a season-ender (in the case of the Seahawks in Week 17) or an official season-ender (in the case of playoffs). So no more need to keep it close to the vest. 

If not for the injuries, I'd wonder. but yeah. This team at full health can likely beat the odds of going from WC to SB Champ. 

As is, they desperately need the bye and HFA.

Worst case now is a road loss to Seattle and then a road loss to the crap winner in the NFCE. Oh, how depressing that could be. 

Word is, Kyle is preparing the team for a QB competition this week. 

.. but that could just be the words that float in my head, so... 

 

 

[oldman9er]

Titans giving the Saints a real go today, so far.  14-0 with no Derrick Henry. Titans looking so strong now. 

AJ Brown looks great; glad Deebo's no chump. 

[N4L]

40 minutes ago, oldman9er said:

Titans giving the Saints a real go today, so far.  14-0 with no Derrick Henry. Titans looking so strong now. 

AJ Brown looks great; glad Deebo's no chump. 

Yeah, the saints are not the same team outdoors. Brees has looked 'off' today because it's a light rain in Tennessee and it's cold. Much different than the dome. 

We are going to crush them if we get them at Levi's in the nfccg

[Forge]

Just now, N4L said:

Yeah, the saints are not the same team outdoors. Brees has looked 'off' today because it's a light rain in Tennessee and it's cold. Much different than the dome. 

We are going to crush them if we get them at Levi's in the nfccg

Or we will lay a complete dud at home. It's about 50/50. We have to have the worst home field advantage out of the nfc playoff teams. 

[oldman9er]

1 minute ago, N4L said:

Yeah, the saints are not the same team outdoors. Brees has looked 'off' today because it's a light rain in Tennessee and it's cold. Much different than the dome. 

We are going to crush them if we get them at Levi's in the nfccg

Hope I feel your confidence by then. How cool if we can get Kwon Alexander back, or even Dee Ford. 

We can't let Mike Thomas go off on us like that again. I don't think Sherman played during that game. Maybe he can help make a difference next time around. Saints likely have that TE back, and we remember what he did to us before the concussion.  

[N4L]

6 minutes ago, Forge said:

Or we will lay a complete dud at home. It's about 50/50. We have to have the worst home field advantage out of the nfc playoff teams. 

Would you say Tennessee has a huge home field advantage? 

I'm saying that the saints outdoors in December and January are not the same team. Pretty obvious watching them today they are not prepared for the elements 

[N4L]

#44 on Tennessee was being blatantly held on that cooks touchdown