Penning and Fuaga!!!!

Let’s clear something up…. All the doubt and criticism of Penning he was getting before the season… was valid and deserved. He was bad. His technique was bad. His foot work was bad. His balance was bad. It was almost all bad.

Just like the praise he is getting now for being able to get out of his own head, fit into this scheme, and do his job at a high level.... is now valid and deserved.

I was someone who said that if he looked like the same guy in the first few games of the season, as the guy I saw last year…. It was time to cut him and move on.

Him making improvements and actually playing well now doesn’t make take wrong, nor does it make me a hater.

It just means he’s done what he has to to so far to be an asset to the team and help us win. And that’s all any of us ever wanted from him the last 2 years.

I think this system has helped him considerably by allowing him to run block more, move forward more than backwards, get help on long developing passes and he has to think much less…. Thereby allowing his feet to actually work.

It’s good to see and I am happy I don’t have to think about him being a weak link, and that the Saints don’t have to move on from him out of necessity.