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I know it's late but I finally got around to watching game film on Saints-Giants game. Watched both the broadcast version and the condensed version, along with some coach's film view. It was interesting and definitely seemed like a better played game on replay than it seemed live. Both defenses really rallied to the ball and tackled well and it was a hard-hitting affair.
1. Von Bell really stood out. He was around the ball a ton, tackled great and covered a lot of ground in a hurry. Very impressed for his first real game action. He and Vaccaro look like a great pairing in the three safety sets. Craig Robertson also looked great.
2. Drew had open receivers. Watching the game it seemed like Brees was constantly scanning downfield and no one was open. Looking at the all-22 coaches film though, he did have some guys open, he just didn't let the ball go . It looked like Spags had him confused and doubting what he was seeing. He got better later in the game.
3. Ingram runs hard, but it still looks to me like he misses his cuts too often Someone posted up some old video of Coach Mora saying he didn't think Ingram was anything special and I have to agree he still doesn't. He looks like a hard-nosed, serviceable runner, but not a playmaker.
4. Crawley ALMOST had that ball out of there on that last catch by Cruz. He actually had his hand hooked in between Cruz's and on the ball. As they go down Cruz has it by the nose and looks like he's going to drop it, but hauls it in. Great catch and not bad defense.
5. They were abusing our FG protection all game long. That needs to get cleaned up.
6. We were in a good position to win that game--driving deep into their territory with under 3 minutes to go. would have been nice to be able to run the ball in that position.
7.Several instances of play clock winding down on routine offensive plays. Shades of last year. Wonder if Payton was back to calling plays.
1. Von Bell really stood out. He was around the ball a ton, tackled great and covered a lot of ground in a hurry. Very impressed for his first real game action. He and Vaccaro look like a great pairing in the three safety sets. Craig Robertson also looked great.
2. Drew had open receivers. Watching the game it seemed like Brees was constantly scanning downfield and no one was open. Looking at the all-22 coaches film though, he did have some guys open, he just didn't let the ball go . It looked like Spags had him confused and doubting what he was seeing. He got better later in the game.
3. Ingram runs hard, but it still looks to me like he misses his cuts too often Someone posted up some old video of Coach Mora saying he didn't think Ingram was anything special and I have to agree he still doesn't. He looks like a hard-nosed, serviceable runner, but not a playmaker.
4. Crawley ALMOST had that ball out of there on that last catch by Cruz. He actually had his hand hooked in between Cruz's and on the ball. As they go down Cruz has it by the nose and looks like he's going to drop it, but hauls it in. Great catch and not bad defense.
5. They were abusing our FG protection all game long. That needs to get cleaned up.
6. We were in a good position to win that game--driving deep into their territory with under 3 minutes to go. would have been nice to be able to run the ball in that position.
7.Several instances of play clock winding down on routine offensive plays. Shades of last year. Wonder if Payton was back to calling plays.