Colts Devour Slow Saints, 41-10 (Plus, Dirty MNF Screen Grabs)
Uncategorized September 7th. 2007, 8:41am
Obviously there will be many knee-jerk reactions this morning to the Colts 41-10 whitewash of the Saints. So there’s no need to mock Jason Whitlock’s Saints to the Super Bowl prediction just yet.
Just a few observations:
* New Orleans has zero speed at wr
* Perhaps the Colts defense - particularly Bob Sanders - is swift, or maybe the Saints just looked incredibly slow at every position
* New Orleans secondary was not prepared, but then again, on Belichick can slow Manning
* Love how they scheduled halftime for 10 p.m., which meant the channel change to Wonder Years
And please, spare us the 10-10 at the half crap; the Saints were incredibly lucky to score that defensive touchdown. The Saints offense looked worse than Jessica Alba’s new movie (though on Letterman last night, she made us want to see it), and it just took a few series for the Colts to wake up to the new season.
Saints flop on big stage once again (Press Register)
Buckett’s View from the Bleachers (Cranky Colts)
Gumbo (Colts Fan Blog)
After the jump, two hilarious screen grabs from last night’s game, send in with a reader who has dick jokes on the mind:
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September 7th, 2007 at 8:46 am
“New Orleans has zero speed at WR”
Not entirely true. Henderson and Copper are both pretty fast. Not throwing downfield was a combination of the cover-2 worked to perfection and Brees lacking the balls to throw it past 10 yards.
The Saints will be fine, it’s only week 1, blah blah. When you run an offense as complex as something Sean Payton puts together, its going to take more than one week to get warmed up.
September 7th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Devery Henderson is a sub 4.4 40 guy
September 7th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Henderson is a 4.4 guy … in the combine
He couldn’t get separation last night for shit
September 7th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Whitlock has to eat Peyton’s jock after that ridculous column. Colts 4-4 to start the season, c’mon, in their division?
September 7th, 2007 at 9:00 am
4.4, where it at? 4.7 is a better number (yards per attempt)
September 7th, 2007 at 9:27 am
A sign of things to come for the Saints, last year they crept in too each game under the rader, not anymore…Sean Payton’s offense is not that complex, he didn’t use Duece enough last night, and Drew Brees still has a noodle arm…I don’t see this team winning NFC South again
September 7th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Wonder if the Saints will get a Peyton Pep Talk on Monday.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Bob Sanders is a bad bad* man.
*Not a typo
September 7th, 2007 at 9:34 am
It alsso didn’t help that every time Reggie touched the ball he tried to do way too much. Hey Reggie, this isn’t USC, your shuffle-step, juke moves aren’t going to work as great as they did in college. Reggie needs to get the ball and focus on getting positive yards rather than trying to juke and jive his way around the field.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Man, Reggie Bush is simply the GREATEST player I’ve ever seen in my life. He had THIRTY-EIGHT yards rushing last night. But WAIT! There’s more! He had FOUR…onetwothreeFOUR…catches for SEVEN whole yards!!! AND (and) he had a punt return for TWO yards!!
Oh. My. God.
Forty-seven whole yards of total offense.
Reggie Bush is SO good that when he enters a city by himself, it officially counts as a siege.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Well said Atlas, Reggie Bush wants to be Jones-Drew, check out last years numbers, Maurice stomps him
September 7th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Peyton Manning is funny and fun to watch. Ever since that SNL United Way short.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NZpPf-q2_es
September 7th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Totally agree about Bush. It’s kind of obvious to see he’s buying into his own hype, and trying to take every single touch he gets to the house, rather than just getting yards and first downs. It looked like he learned nothing from last year.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:07 am
ok people calm down about the saints and especially Bush. The guy had a bum ankle and it was the first game of the year. I know alot of Fantasy owners of Bush and Deuce are upset right now but Dungy is a “defensive coach” with new players in his system. Of course they were going to play well last night. If you here all off season long after winning a super bowl that your defense suck, you are going to play with a chip on your shoulder too!
September 7th, 2007 at 10:51 am
He’s spending too much time plowing the ample fields of Kardashian.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Plus Payton’s playcalling sucks rocks too!
September 7th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I think what is being simply passed over here is the speed at which the Indy defense played. The Saints were simply overmatched athletically by the Colt defenders. Their new LB that replaced Cato June was especially fast, as well as the usual speed from Bob Sanders. A lot of people made a big deal out of the Colts defensive losses, but both corners played better than their predecessors and everyone else stuck to their assignments AND THEY TACKLED WELL, something they didn’t do last year.
And the Colts offense simply tore the Saints to shreds in the second half. That performance is a felony in multiple states. Manning gets fire for beng corny or gay with Kenny Chesney or whatnot, but the guy is a football machine. He is simply in another league, no one is even close to him. Belichick better hope he can slow these guys down, cause he hasn’t had much success in the past.
Great start by the champs. The NFL is on notice.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I think what is being simply passed over here is the speed at which the Indy defense played. The Saints were simply overmatched athletically by the Colt defenders. Their new LB that replaced Cato June was especially fast, as well as the usual speed from Bob Sanders. A lot of people made a big deal out of the Colts defensive losses, but both corners played better than their predecessors and everyone else stuck to their assignments AND THEY TACKLED WELL, something they didn’t do last year.
And the Colts offense simply tore the Saints to shreds in the second half. That performance is a felony in multiple states. Manning gets fire for beng corny or gay with Kenny Chesney or whatnot, but the guy is a football machine. He is simply in another league, no one is even close to him. Belichick better hope he can slow these guys down, cause he hasn’t had much success in the past three or four games in stopping the Colts offensive onslaught.
Great start by the champs. The NFL is on notice.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:07 am
My bad guys, double post.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:26 am
I would fear Big Bad Bob Sanders.
September 7th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
That first screen grab is of Madden drawing a play out on the telestrator and it ended up looking like a dick and balls. Then the second one happened ten seconds later and it appears they were discussing size. Just a clarification. As for the game totally misjudged the Saints covering the points.
September 7th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
The Colts are not the Colts of old. Everyone is forgetting that Dungy started out life as a defensive guru. Now that he has had several years to get the pieces in the right place, why is everyone acting so surprised that the Colts defense is any good?
September 7th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
GYD…I said the same thing earlier but no one paid attention to it!
September 7th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
This game was really all about coaching. The indy secondary was flawless. And their defensive speed must be making some teams nervous.
However, the biggest active DT on the colts roster roster is only 299. So why didn’t Payton come out in an 1 TE power ‘I’ and pound mcallister inside? Negate their speed, and attack their undersized front seven. Lets see how the Indy D stands up to jacksonville and other teams that run straight up the guy on most of their running teams, before talking too much shit.
As for payton, almost every one of his plays were right out of his playbook and down/distance calls from last year. The saints O looked stale, and SLOW. Bush was anonymous, brees confused and nobody was getting open. Freeney and the other DE were raping the tackles, and they never kept a back in for blocking, which seemed crazy.
Nothing looked new, if he keeps that up expect a sophmore slump.
September 7th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I was definitely backing up your POV, gatorman.
Dungy was and is a defensive coach first and foremost.
Watch out for the Colts. I know its only one game, but they looked pretty damn good.
September 7th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
The fatty does make a good point. Up the middle run defense could be the flaw of this team, but I think the more atheltic linebackers and the healthy (fingers crossed!) presence of Bob Sanders certainly would help in that regard.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Indy is a cover 2 defense, which negates the deep ball (which is why Brees had so few ypa). The fact that Bob Sanders was around and Robert Keaho was everywhere certainly were factors, but each Indy defender was playing within the scheme. Sean Payton’s game plan was instantly irrelevant and he didn’t make any adjustments.
Let’s not go writing off New Orleans just yet in the South. Carolina has an older defense and Jake Delhomme, Tampa Bay is a joke, and Atlanta has too many questions to answer (including the Rod Coleman injury and replacing Vick and Patrick Kerney).
September 7th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Frankly, I don’t know why everyone is all over Sean Payton’s nuts. His play calling was terrible in NY, where Fassel eventually took over play calling duties and the Offense improved. He was still “Offensive Coordinator” but only in title. If the Cowboys didn’t hire him, he probably would’ve been fired. The offense in Dallas was putrid as well while he was there, although granted he had Drew Bledsoe and Qunicy Carter to work with.
So pretty much all he had was one good year (last year) offensively. And they only played two playoff teams in the regular season. And couldn’t do shit against the Bears.
For Duece to only get 10 carries last night is mindboggling, going against one of the all-time worst rushing defenses. You have to pound the ball inside. It seems like there is too much emphasis to get Reggie Bush the ball. Reggie is much more effective in the second half of games, when the defense is tired from taking a pounding from Deuce and he’s been rested up. But with a fresh d, his speed is negated. Duece needs at least 20 carries a game, with a majority of them coming early.
And when you don’t throw a deep ball all game, of course your not going to be able to run the ball. You can have 8 people in the box all game and keep throwing swing passes and 5 yard outs. And ever heard of play action? Just pathetic.
With all the talent on the offensive side of the ball, there’s no reason this team can’t go to the Superbow. Payton needs to wake up. His play calling last night wouldn’t even win you a game on Madden.
September 10th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Hey, I posted something about Madden’s cock drawings last week too.
http://www.thebayeasy.com/log/?p=236
Good to know I wasn’t the only one with an immature POV.