Payton Calls Plays, NOT Carmichael, and Saints kill Tampa at home

You must have not seen the breakdown of game, TE Gilmore was brought in to block, but did a poor job as did Bushrod, Brown, and McQuistan.


One thing that should have done different to help with the pressure was to roll the protection over, slide the pocket, or being Bree's out on a bootleg off play action. The biggest fail from coaching side in this regard was just dropping Brees back in the middle of the line play after play. That made it easier because every play the rush had to sim at the same place in the middle behind the line, whereas if he were moved off that spot, Bree's would have had more time to throw be ause any defender that got through the line still had to locate Brees and that extra second or two was the biggest difference in winning or losing the game.

I say this as fact because there were a lot of articles, such as the one on football outsider, showing all the wide open receivers or runs about to break out big that were missed out on by just a second thanks to protection not holding out.