Week 3 Rapid Response: Saints Looking for Answers (Just Like the Rest of Us)

Dan, outstanding as usual. It felt like groundhog day sitting in the dome yesterday. At the end of the 3rd quarter we had 98 yards of offense. Process that for a minute.

What I saw was a through whipping in the trenches. No need to quote the cliche about how games are won. You get the point.

You nailed it when you said missing McCoy was key but not having the element of surprise that is Taysom was maybe more important.

Another poster pointed out something I commented on in another thread and that's the lack of playmakers after Kamara and Olave. Olave may develop into WR1 but seems to be a perfect WR2 today. Rasheed is a feast or famine type of guy. He seems to be more of a 3/4 guy who takes the top off of the defense. We lack that true 2/3 guy to compliment Olave.

Going into yesterday, I had to listen to a bunch of my buddies that I thought were over the top on their assessment of our team not much different than the national media that seem to be listing us as the front runner in the NFC. I told them this league is full of smart people. They are going to figure this offensive scheme out. The question is how do we respond and what adjustments do we make? We had no answers on the fly.

I felt like yesterday was a true litmus test for our team. We didn't answer the call. A win in an ugly performance could have set us on the way to a magical season. While that could still happen, it seems like there is plenty of doubt to go around today.

Let's see what happens down probably McCoy and Maybe Taysom again. How do we compensate like Philly did down AJ Brown and later in the game Smith.

Before the season, I thought getting out of the first 5 games with 2 wins could set us up well. Mission accomplished already with 2 more games ahead of us. I'm sure KK learned some lessons yesterday or at least I hope he did. Not much time to lament but a short time to put those lessons into play against a very scrappy ATL team.