If Saints Don't Serve 40-Burgers, We in Trouble... (2 Viewers)

[Tapxe]

Did we watch the same game?!?

I saw this one where we threw the ball all over and were robbed of 1 TD by officiating as well as pulled up at the end to run out the clock after a beautiful long pass.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

Wow... I remember fans were excited last season about the possibility of unleashing an offense that would rain long TD passes from the stadium skies. Mike Thomas, Jarvis Landry, and Chris Olave would terrorize DBs and make every game a track meet. In the end, the Saints eventually win games feeding opponents a 40-burger along the way. Needless to say, expectations were not mirrored by reality.

This season the Saints OC is opting for ball control over "shock and awe". However, if the Saints believe they can win games without explosive plays in a high-powered offense, then this will be a long frustrating season. And even if the team makes it through a soft schedule with close wins, then the post season shapes up to be an embarrassment and disaster.

Dennis Allen might like these sluggfests where the defenses duke it out and the game is decided by one point. But whenever a Payton-Brees offense faced a 3-point margin at the end of the game, fans came to believe and expect "advantage Saints". And DA will find that the Saints running game.. the defense.. and the home-field crowd is all better when the Saints offense can serve up a 40-burger or at least establish a 2-score lead.

GO Saints...

Absolutely wrong-headed post here, bereft of facts. First of all, there is no evidence to suggest that the coaches believe "they can win games without explosive plays." What a ridiculous thing to type. Especially silly when you consider that Carr was 2nd in the NFL in passing yards per attempt last week, 2nd in target depth, 2nd in 20+ yard completions, and 1st in 20+ yard attempts. Further, how on earth can you think the crowd could be better than it was on Sunday, unless you were watching the game without sound? The players and Coach Allen commented on the crowd noise and even the announcers complimented the crowd for being noisy at the right times.

 

[B4YOU]

I would like to see a W with at least 24pts scored. That’s the point total average that gets you into the playoffs.

 

[Paul]

Ideally, we have the type of team that can adjust our offensive “identity” week to week based on the opponent, and I think we do. We have a good backfield, a good QB who can pretty much make all the throws, we have a couple of burners at WR, our big time possession WR in Thomas who catches just about everything, an up and coming TE, and a big red zone threat TE.
We played Tennessee’s brand of football this past Sunday: ugly, sluggish, close, bruising - but got the job done. There will be games this season where we put up a bunch of points and yards and we’ll probably have a couple more ugly looking, slow games like this last one.

I think we can play several different styles of football on offense as long as coaching stays up to par.

 

[YeahSaintsWin]

Are you seriously saying that you believe DA isn’t concerned with wanting to score as much as possible?

Also, Carr had the most passes traveling 20+ yards this past week. He completed the 2nd most 15+ yard passes behind Tua. I think you are off on the whole “ball control” assessment

Thanks for the comment...

I hope I'm wrong, but when the Titans loaded up on the run and played a soft zone defense behind the LOS, then it looks like Titans were expecting the game they got..

Good Post...

GO Saints...

 

[dvdman]

This team is not built that way. It's like a Mora team - ground and pound and hope your kicker makes the FG at the end.

I don’t agree with that one bit. I believe they had no choice but to play to level of their opponent last Sunday. The Titans were no slouch.

 

[Wheelo]

Did you make the assessment that we're run heavy and a ball controlled offense off the game that was played on September 10th, 2023? Because, wow is that a terrible observation. We were aggressive, lined receivers up in the backfield, Carr had the 2nd most completions of 15+ yards and attempts just behind Tua, ended the game on a crazy aggressive play call.... Like, what are we complaining about here exactly?

 

[SWJJ]

70 points aint enough

mOar TDs!

Throw the damned ball

Let's go score a hunnit!

 

[SonOfNOLA]

Wow... I remember fans were excited last season about the possibility of unleashing an offense that would rain long TD passes from the stadium skies. Mike Thomas, Jarvis Landry, and Chris Olave would terrorize DBs and make every game a track meet. In the end, the Saints eventually win games feeding opponents a 40-burger along the way. Needless to say, expectations were not mirrored by reality.

This season the Saints OC is opting for ball control over "shock and awe". However, if the Saints believe they can win games without explosive plays in a high-powered offense, then this will be a long frustrating season. And even if the team makes it through a soft schedule with close wins, then the post season shapes up to be an embarrassment and disaster.

Dennis Allen might like these sluggfests where the defenses duke it out and the game is decided by one point. But whenever a Payton-Brees offense faced a 3-point margin at the end of the game, fans came to believe and expect "advantage Saints". And DA will find that the Saints running game.. the defense.. and the home-field crowd is all better when the Saints offense can serve up a 40-burger or at least establish a 2-score lead.

GO Saints...

Did you watch the game or only looking at the score? There were several explosive pass plays to Olave, MT and Shaheed, including the pass that clinched the game on 3rd down. Those completions set up 2 of Grupe’s FGs in or near the redzone. Had Penning blocked in the first half, Carr would’ve had time to convert those FG drives into TDs and the score would’ve been bigger.

The offense wasn’t ball control at all. There was no run game to effectively be ball control. Carr’s pass attempts were not dink and dunk.

 

[Saintaholik]

Wow... I remember fans were excited last season about the possibility of unleashing an offense that would rain long TD passes from the stadium skies. Mike Thomas, Jarvis Landry, and Chris Olave would terrorize DBs and make every game a track meet. In the end, the Saints eventually win games feeding opponents a 40-burger along the way. Needless to say, expectations were not mirrored by reality.

This season the Saints OC is opting for ball control over "shock and awe". However, if the Saints believe they can win games without explosive plays in a high-powered offense, then this will be a long frustrating season. And even if the team makes it through a soft schedule with close wins, then the post season shapes up to be an embarrassment and disaster.

Dennis Allen might like these sluggfests where the defenses duke it out and the game is decided by one point. But whenever a Payton-Brees offense faced a 3-point margin at the end of the game, fans came to believe and expect "advantage Saints". And DA will find that the Saints running game.. the defense.. and the home-field crowd is all better when the Saints offense can serve up a 40-burger or at least establish a 2-score lead.

GO Saints...

I think your concept of what they are trying to achieve on offense is misconstrued.

If anything it's the exact opposite. With the amount of burners on this team. I think it's pretty obvious from week 1 they want to stretch the field.

The first play of the game was a go route to Michael Thomas.

I also believe Carr lead the league last week in 20+ plays/ attempts. He did all that while also being the most pressured qb last week. If your gonna try to stretch the field while only having 1.5 seconds to throw the ball, that's probably your philosophy on how you want to attack defenses this year.

The Saints could have easily dialed up 5+ screens last week (which I think they should put more of an emphasis on) but they didn't. They clearly wanted to stretch the field.

I don't know what you were watching at all, but it wasn't the same game I saw

Who Dat!

 

[boutte]

We had ONE RB and a LT who couldn't block the guy in front of him. Baltimore's DL of the best in the League. We ran the ball close to 30 times and did n't much but sometimes you have to keep the Opposing team honest.

I don't understand just looking for anything you can possibly find to complain about.

 

[jboss]

I don't understand how you can watch how well our defense performed Sunday and come to the conclusion we need to run up the score every week.

 

[SWJJ]

Part of it is game planning. The Titians have a very stout front 7 and our best avenue of attack on offense was to run a lot of 1-1 personnel to get them out of their base and into nickel and dime sets.

Between their defensive strengths, and us missing Kamara, we had no business trying to play a run heavy offense against them. I agree with the assessments that we had an attack mindset, and I believe the stats speak for themselves.

It will probably be more of the same against the Panthers.

 

[26ISTHEMAN]

What a bizarre thread, especially after we just won scoring 16 and the defense showed they are still a top notch unit.

 

[Who Dat MCFC]

Are you seriously saying that you believe DA isn’t concerned with wanting to score as much as possible?

Also, Carr had the most passes traveling 20+ yards this past week. He completed the 2nd most 15+ yard passes behind Tua. I think you are off on the whole “ball control” assessment