Saints LBs: "The Snow Patrol"

[Jimmy Chitwood]

last season the "Snow Patrol" combined for 309 tackles, 8.5 sacks, 3 interceptions, 3 forced fumbles, and 11 pass break-ups. what part of that statline is somehow un-impressive for a linebacking corps?


they are a gifted bunch, plain and simple.


Mark Simoneau: 73 tackles, 1 sack, 1 interception, 1 pbu


Scott Fujita: 119 tkls, 3.5 sacks, 2 ints, 2 forced fumbles, 8 pbu's


Scott Shanle: 117 tkls, 4 sks, 1 ff,2 pbu'sEdited by: Jimmy Chitwood

 

[whiteCB]

The "Snow Patrol" is intact so far. Mark Simoneau is having a good camp and hasn't been unseated by Brian Simmons at this point. I can see a scenario where Mark splits time depending on the down and distance. As mentioned somewhere on the forum, it may be asking a little too much for Mark to be a run stuffing monster.

By all accounts the Saints were going to draft A. J. Hawk until Houston passed on Bush. That might have been considered a borderline hate crime or something had the Saints had Fujita, Shanle, Hawk and Simoneau as their linebackers.



Simoneau holds his ground

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Yeah its a fact the Saints were sent on selecting Hawk with the #2 overall pick but we all know Houston blew that.

 

[Gi-15]

it seems pretty "in" to take shot at whiteys these day, here a wqonderful article by caste whore Kevin Heinch from foxsports.com here

here's the quote : " The beauty of sports is its merit-based colorblindness. So only a cynic (like me) could watch the New Orleans player intros in Week 1, see an all-white starting linebacker corps and go "uh-oh." Maybe if their names were Urlacher, Hawk and Vrabel, I'd have felt differently, but after Scott Fujita, Scott Shanle and Mark Simoneau got trampled and thrown over for 452 total yards, the linebacking corps look more like a linebacking corpse. The last all-white starting linebacker unit to win a Super Bowl? I figured it would be Jack Lambert, Jack Ham and Andy Russell in SB X, but Lambert, Ham and Loren Toews started for the Steelers in SB XIII. If the Saints trio can't contain the lowly Bucs, the affirmative action experiment will have to end. Saints 27, Buccaneers 17
"

that makes me sick, I'd like to respond in the talkback but I can't log in for some reason. Some people are taking it negative, like they should, but most are just saying "get a sense of humor"

you dumb f**k, Nobody would be calling for better "sense of humor" if this writer was calling out an all-black O-line and their rare black center.

 

[yanling]

This Heinch guy looks like he's wearing makeup in his photo. What a sack-lacking d**che bag.

 

[Don Wassall]

that makes me sick, I'd like to respond in the talkback but I can't log in for some reason. Some people are taking it negative, like they should, but most are just saying "get a sense of humor"

You're right, they should be called on it every time by as many of us as possible. Whites ridiculing whitesis the national pastime, not baseball or football.

 

[backrow]

i signed up just to tell him what i think. what a douche.

we should all post comments like that.

 

[Gi-15]

yup, you're totally right Backrow, we should mass-attack those talk backs as soon as comments like that comes from national writers, just to make people aware that comments like that are innaceptable.

They don't recognize my canadian postal code on foxsports.com, could someone give me a false american zip code that I could use? thanks a lot.

 

[backrow]

37130.

 

[whiteathlete33]

Boy, you have on all white linebacking unit in the Nfl and everyone likes to rip into the them. They are all good players, maybe not the best, but they are solid. What is that moron writer trying to prove other than how stupid and ignorant he is? I find it funny that there are not many whites at linebacker. Should be about 80 % or more whites at this position and many others. The only position I can say that would be 50/50 is cornerback. Thats it.

 

[yanling]

Boy, you have on all white linebacking unit in the Nfl and everyone likes to rip into the them. They are all good players, maybe not the best, but they are solid. What is that moron writer trying to prove other than how stupid and ignorant he is? I find it funny that there are not many whites at linebacker. Should be about 80 % or more whites at this position and many others. The only position I can say that would be 50/50 is cornerback. Thats it.

He (that Hensch guy) is such a quisling. He's comes off as one of those effete little losers who rejects his own heritage and thinks that promoting everyone else makes him a good person. He probably gets punked all the time.

 

[nhl411]

here was my response: i guess next time i see a black qb introduced and have a bad game (vince young anyone?)i should go "uh-oh the affirmative action experiment should end if he doesn't play well next week" huh hench?

 

[whiteathlete33]

Is this guy Jewish or what? Anyone know?

 

[Guest]

Is it that important what a moron thinks? We all know those 3 guys are decent players, easily worthy of being starters in the NFL. Plenty of all black defenses this season would have lost just as bad to the Colts, and will.

Black players now enjoy a huge advantage in NFL football because they blend into each other. Whenever a black player is bad, it's hard for spectators to figure out because they're almost all black.Edited by: nevada

 

[devans]

It is important, because impressionable seventeen year old's read that kind of crap and think there is some truth to it and think it's cool to say similar things. There is NO way a black kicker would be treated like that - he would be the Tiger Woods of the NFL.

 

[Gi-15]

I made my own comment under the Torn3d nickname. lol, cant believe I called the snow patrol a "minority group"

 

[Guest]

There is NO way a black kicker would be treated like that - he would be the Tiger Woods of the NFL.

I think the point is that when the Colts destroy an all black defense, and they will destroy several all black defenses this season with all black linebackers, no writers will be talking about how the black players need to be replaced.

 

[highschoolcoach]

There is NO way a black kicker would be treated like that - he would be the Tiger Woods of the NFL.

I think the point is that when the Colts destroy an all black defense, and they will destroy several all black defenses this season with all black linebackers, no writers will be talking about how the black players need to be replaced.

I think that this is as good as it can be stated and the reason the Castefootball has such a loyal following. I will be stunned if anybody writes or says that an all black linebacking corps needs a white player or two after their team is defeated by the Colts.

 

[White Shogun]

I'd like to see a stat breakdown of how many of Indy's TD's were scored against the Saints all-black defensive backfield, compared to how many were scored on running plays or with linebackers in coverage.

 

[Alpha Male]

"...the affirmative action experiment will have to end"

What hypocrisy! - As if whites have ever benefited from AA policy. White football players picked on this writer in high school, and now he's taking shots at them. Pathetic!
Edited by: Alpha Male

 

[ToughJ.Riggins]

And Shanle is very inexperienced, isn't he? The guy deserves a chance to learn. And to top it off it was against the best offense in the league.

I think the best response would be to name a few bad black starters post their stats and ask. "When will the Affirmative Action experiment end with black players like this guy? And there are plenty of them." Aaron Brooks could be a really good one. Or how about Dennis Northcutt, Bobby Wade or Keary Colbert? How about Josh Reed or Mike Williams still being a third WR? Or how about the whole Cardinals O-line, or the Falcon WR corps. What a crock that man is.

 

[Guest]

But Tough J, don't you know that if these white guys can't stop the best offense in the league, then they suck and should immediately be replaced by black guys? Especially if 3 touchdowns were scored on a black corner, it's the white linebackers' fault.

Ugh. The NFL is rough these days.

 

[InfamousOne]

Nevada - Seriously, I would have fired Jason David after that game if I were Sean Peyton. David was responsible for 21 of the colts points scored. It was a joke.

 

[InfamousOne]

David got burned again while playing the Bucs, this time for only 14 points (he is improving, it seems). They should pick up Dustin Fox, they obviously need a decent cornerback and David isn't it.Edited by: InfamousOne

 

[ocaamikedm11]

Dustin was signed to the Bills practice squad this week, so hopefully he will be suiting up for them soon!

 

[ToughJ.Riggins]

Wow, can you imagine if Fox ends up getting playing time for the Bills at CB b/c of injury or necessity..With Fox and Coy Wire coming back that would make 7 whites starting. The Bills defense would be looking like the 1960's integrated NFL!

Well here's dreaming anyway.Edited by: ToughJ.Riggins