eh that wasn't that great of a run by Lynch. Saints defenders knew their best hope was to try to strip the ball, so none of them tried to tackle. So I can't really give him to much credit, the guy is still a turd
About Jahri Evans being ridiculously overpaid, I agree. He was actually above average last year. Then they moved the refs behind the line of scrimmage and he sucks with a bunch of penalties. Hopefully this will keep the interior of the line white, because even guard has been becoming more of a sumo position, and it looks like "elite" guards such as Evans and Nicks were getting by with holding. I know there is holding on almost all plays but I guess they do it more than average.
It is sickening to see Graham being called the next Gates and Shockey's replacement, NEXT YEAR. He doesn't even have blocking down. David Thomas and Shockey can do what he does but wind up staying behind to block more often, because they can and are willing to. Shockey still has better numbers, and that is with an injury most of the year.
Zach Strief should clearly be starting at left tackle yet dwfs say he isn't athletic enough, even though he has handled plenty of good pass rushers. This reminds me of when I was mocked and yelled at for claiming Chris Reis was way more athletic than Roman Harper and should be playing. Today I was proved right (well it was just more obvious than usual today), unfortunately Reis is on IR. Harper was burned all day long and the other week couldn't outrun Sam Bradford with a 15 yard head start. I wanted Matt Giordano to come in but he was inactive.
The Saints keep getting blacker and Drew can't overcome this, the fact that he has been able to win despite his surrounding caste says alot about his talent. He has to avoid pressure more than Manning and Brady, especially this year after the refs moved to the behind the los, all of a sudden the entire line looks like crap. Unfortunately Stinchcomb is the only one who gets the blame, and is called the weakest link when he is actually the best one right now. Amazing how fast Sean Payton is willing to get rid of white players after he had to get a bunch in desperation after Katrina, Shanle, Mark Simoneau, Fujita, Brian Young. Lance Moore over Mike Hass. Shanle is the only one still here. If anyone has seen Moore play, hes good, but I guarantee Hass would be twice the receiver in that offense. I think Todd Blythe would be better than Adrian Arrington who the fans say is going to have a break out year any time now. Chase Lyman would be better than Robert Meachem. Aaron Hosack would put up nice stats as well. I know Lyman was injury prone but one of those guys should have stuck around to contribute, but I guess Payton only likes white tight ends, even if they are split out wide most of the time.
Charleston should clearly be playing almost every down. Will Smith is inconsistent and nobody on the left side is any good besides Charleston. Crazy to think he was working at a kinkos type place before the Saints called him, after the Colts discarded him.
The Patrick Robinson pick never made any sense, even Bobby Bowden said the kid had no football sense and wasn't that great of a cornerback. That is pretty bad when Bowden says something like that about an afflete. At least they didn't trade up to get Sean Weatherspoon who the fans wanted to replace Shanle. Wouldve been nice to see them get AJ Edds to fill in Fujita's loss.
Nice to see that Stokley has gas left in the tank, when the team is actually willing to use him. He is 34 years old and supposedly never possessed "speed" or "affleticism", so how is is this 34 year old that has lost supposedly "lost a step he couldn't afford to lose" still managing to get open
. Speaking of older white receivers, hopefully Curtis is used a bunch tomorrow. It will be the Chiefs best chance if they want to win if he can stretch the field with Cassell throwing it to him.
I am interested to see how Jamaal Charles runs against the Ravens. Me and TJR have agreed that he has a similar running style to Woodhead. The Ravens will be a good matchup to see how Danny and Charles compare against the same tough run defense, while I think Charles is elite, I don't know if he would have averaged 6.4 ypc going against different competition,(I still think it would be in the 5.6 to 6 range though), so the Ravens would be a good measuring stick since Danny had 11 carries for 63 yards against them, 5.7 ypc and 5 catches for 52 yards. So far against the same teams this year, Woodhead has had 40 carries for 282 yards 7.05 ypc 3 tds, Charles has 70 carries for 445 yards 6.35 ypc 1 td. It would sure be nice to see Woodhead in a Charles type role with Lawfirm like Jones.
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