Why is everyone fretting about only having two major weapons? (1 Viewer)

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We have two players that are top 5 at their respective positions. No one else in the league has that on their offense. Any team is screwed if their top players on offense go out, such as the Niners when the lost Sanders and Kittle on Monday. I think we just need to relax a bit.
 
We have two players that are top 5 at their respective positions. No one else in the league has that on their offense. Any team is screwed if their top players on offense go out, such as the Niners when the lost Sanders and Kittle on Monday. I think we just need to reax a bit.
Keep in mind it's plain as day that Kamara is not fully healthy yet, and with his injury it might take him a few more weeks to get the full explosion and confidence in his ankle back but outside of that...

Michael Thomas is getting 66.9% of the Saints Wide Receiver targets.

No other team in the league has that big of a target discrepancy. The next most disproportionate share of Receiver targets is Chicago's; Allen Robinson at 49.4% of WR targets.

So what that stat will mean going forward is Mike Thomas will draw Double coverage on just about every one of the Saints 3rd down, and Red Zone opportunities until someone else reliably beats them.

Saints were 3/12 on 3rd down vs. the Falcons, and 0/3 on 4th down. 25% conversion rate on 3rd down is not winning Football!
 
We have two players that are top 5 at their respective positions. No one else in the league has that on their offense. Any team is screwed if their top players on offense go out, such as the Niners when the lost Sanders and Kittle on Monday. I think we just need to reax a bit.

The issue is the complete and total lack of depth behind those players. As another poster pointed out... it is like falling off Everest, the gap is that staggering.
 
We have two players that are top 5 at their respective positions. No one else in the league has that on their offense. Any team is screwed if their top players on offense go out, such as the Niners when the lost Sanders and Kittle on Monday. I think we just need to reax a bit.

Saints offense:
14th in yards
16th in points
29th in passes dropped
Doesn’t score any touchdowns in 1/3 of their games.

Against the worst pass rush team in the league, Brees held the ball for 7 seconds on two of the 6 sacks.

People worry about the offensive weapons because the current iteration of the Saints offense is mediocre, and not particularly hard to shut down.
 
Keep in mind it's plain as day that Kamara is not fully healthy yet, and with his injury it might take him a few more weeks to get the full explosion and confidence in his ankle back but outside of that...

Michael Thomas is getting 66.9% of the Saints Wide Receiver targets.

No other team in the league has that big of a target discrepancy. The next most disproportionate share of Receiver targets is Chicago's; Allen Robinson at 49.4% of WR targets.

So what that stat will mean going forward is Mike Thomas will draw Double coverage on just about every one of the Saints 3rd down, and Red Zone opportunities until someone else reliably beats them.

Saints were 3/12 on 3rd down vs. the Falcons, and 0/3 on 4th down. 25% conversion rate on 3rd down is not winning Football!
murray had 2 games in a row where he had over 150 yards of total offense and then for some absurd reason he got the ball a handful of times..
 
I tend to agree because I think Cook has started to make an impact and I think Smith has improved when healthy (that drop Sunday was a tough one).

Much like last year, the offense falters when the OL plays poorly and Brees cant step up. Even the Football Outsiders article alluded to the fact the Atlanta secondary didn’t play well Sunday, but Brees just had no time.
 
The problem existed last year too, if we're being honest. At least then, we tried to actually fix it.

In a more perfect world, Dez Bryant doesn't get injured day 1 and we dont have to depend on a the elite skills of Tommy Lee Lewis.
 
There are 31 other teams in the NFL and you named the other one.

I think the op's point has been made...
If you say so. We can add Minn. to the list with their two receivers. I do think we had a better WR group on the SB team, however.
 

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