Locker Room: Dolphins Prep

Someone please tell me what kind of chance the Miami Minnos stand against the “Fleur-de-lis D”. Don’t use it. It’s trademarked by JWD and if the Saints keep up the good work on the other side of the ball, the’ll earn that name full time. Right now they’re just renting it out. Since the major improvements seen against the Cinncinatti Convicts, one is driven to believe that an offense so vanilla as the Fins simply could not take certain blitzes from linebackers like Kevin However you spell that last name, or maybe the presence of a cornerback on the field for the New Orleans Saints. Tracy Porter or Aaron Glenn on occasion, perhaps. Maybe a strip here by Porter, or a knock down there by Glenn, or a ferocious charging, blood smelling linebacker known as Kevin, (crap, get a real last name, will ya) only having to run through a football field’s worth of space thanks to the preoccupation of the O-Line with Charles Grant and Kendrick Clancy to sack an unexpecting QB so damn hard he has to inhale the dirt through his busted up, broken bloody nose bleeding like Niagra Falls dyed red. Either way, the Dolphins are gonna be at Roger Goodell’s feet about outlawing preseason. Or at least the traditional Saints vs. Dolphins in the Superdome to close out the preseason. What is up with that? Why do we always end up playing the Dolphins at home to end the preseason? That’s what screwes us up every year. You go up against a creampuff you become a creampuff, Mr. Roger. Looks like you need to rearrange your little neighborhood. Otherwise, we’ll never make it back to the NFC Championship game. We’ll deal with it this time, but next time…………….

Now lets get to what I actually sat my lazy butt down for:

Saints Game Plan: Dolphins Prep

I say send about 25-30 linebacker blitzes. I want that QB out for 6 months. If there is ever a more vulnerable guy to sack, you know he has to be playing for the Dolphins. I’m sure it won’t be hard to get all 11 guys in the backfield at some point during the game.

Press Coverage: ALL NIGHT LONG. Press. Press. Press. Get right up on there routes. Give no cussion. It’s the only way you cornerbacks stand a chance trying to jump a route to intercept a pass. Leave cussion, and the only thing you can do is tackle.

Never thought I’d say this but you’re passing downfield too much. You exaggerated my gameplan. Take the 10-15 yard pass plays. Just don’t be throwing those swing routes to the fullback or halfback all the time. You’re not good with breaking tackes at the line of scrimmage, and you have to break many because the O-Line sucks at blocking on the outside.

Defensive Line: Two Words: Bobby McCray.

Tight End: Quick bein’ a butt head, Payton.

Halfback: Gain back some weight, Deuce. You’re starting to look like…………………….

Other halfback: Stay in the field of play. If you’re to scared to play football, go get a real job like the rest of us and do the world some good. You’re not doing it any good running straight to “little daddy P” to cry that you didn’t get to play in the endzone.

Okay, so now we’re ready to fire the grill up and cook some fish filet.

CHEF, COOK IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Shutout In Cincy

The defense improves a whole lot this week and I have to say Gary Gibbs redeemed himself, calling the blitz package more times Saturday night than I thought he would. Most of our sacks came from linebacker blitzes and safety blitzes, which I knew was going to happen. If Charles Grant and Will Smith can’t get to the quarterback, they sure as hell can at least occupy the offensive line enough to open up holes for those blitzing linebackers (and safeties)

Shouts outs have to go out to some stand out players:

Robert Meachem and Lance Moore for continuing to be consistent at the wide reciever position.

Tracy Porter (I admit I ragged on him a little bit for stealing Aaron Glenn’s spot; both played well) for returning competence to the left corner position. Tracy Porter didn’t make spectacular plays, but he DID HIS JOB and made the QB’s for the Bengals look elsewhere for recievers; recievers who were being covered by guys like Fujita, Shanle, or McKenzie, which leads me to my next shout out.

Gotta throw out the love to the reopening of the Superdome Bakery. It’s manager Mike McKenzie covered well and had a chance on an interception. I’ll give him a pass on that drop, but just this time.

That safety guy who’s last name I don’t know how to spell and while I usually would take the time to look up his name, it’s very late at night and I’m too lazy to do it right now. You know, no not that guy, the one we just signed…………..yeah that guy. He made an interception at the end of the game to seal the shutout.

Many guys stepped up big tonight and while you might say all of the Bengals first team recievers were out, remember, we usually make anybody look good…………ANYBODY!!!! So this is a start.

 

I give the Saints, as a team, an “S”. Why an S? Well, because while I think they played better than they did against the Cardinals, I also think they therefore had numerous oportunities to put points on the board, and yet still scored about half as many points as they did in that game. So I guess you could say the Saints got an S because of the explosiveness on offense. More chances to fail at points derived from it.

The Saints move to 2-1 on the preseason. They face the Dolphins this Thursday in the Superdome.

PS: Prediction was a little off, I know.