Underhill article: “Saints moves are telling us what they felt the real problem with the team was last season”

SweetT said
Point blank, it was not just injuries. It was a jambalaya of stuff that we were lacking and it didn’t take long for it to surface. I remember when McCoy went down. 98% of this board was on melt level orange. All the sky is falling, we are screwed yada yada. Now, if most of yall saw and felt that way bc of one singular injury, then that means yall had zero confidence that our team could weather the storm. That my friends, proves that we were not a good team. If you can’t at least have some confidence during injuries, then your team is not good.

There really was zero excuse for the offense falling apart with the McCoy injury alone. Yes, Carter is a monster, but you have to have a plan if McCoy goes down whether that's just a better backup or a tweak to the blocking scheme. And, it got worse when Ruiz went down which is also inexcusable from both a lack of depth and lack of ability to tweak the blocking to at least make it adequate. I might forgive it if it was just in the games where each went down, but it went on for weeks without anything done to help it. They did not go to a short passing game or do any of the many things that a good staff should be able to do. Maybe it was that the depth really sucked that bad, but I find it hard to believe they didn't at least have serviceable guys to step in with the right plan. And if they didn't it's an even more obvious flaw in the building of the team.

Hopefully they fix those depth issues this year

I do get that it's a lot of injuries to deal with concentrated on the OL and at WR, and it made it impossible to be a good offense or even an average offense, but I still think they should have done better and they clearly should have had better depth to at least still put an NFL offense on the field. What we put on the field at that point just wasn't an NFL offense and it wasn't fair to throw Rattler out there with that group and expect him to win or even look okay.

But if those gus stay healthy this year, or even if more of them stay healthy this year, I think we see a better looking offense on the field this year. But, we need to add a starting LG, some more depth on the IOL, a true X WR, and a complete TE that can also do work in the passing game.