Saints Kay Adams: “Saints are still my team. Don’t sleep on them!” (1 Viewer)

[ndcc]

Broke this one out from Andrus’ daily compilation (…which many of us already appreciate)!

Gotta love Kay Adams! In this short clip she explains WHY she’s still bullish on the Black & Gold! Good answers too!

 

[TribuneUK]

Broke this one out from Andrus’ daily compilation (…which many of us already appreciate)!

Gotta love Kay Adams! In this short clip she explains WHY she’s still bullish on the Black & Gold! Good answers too!

That graphic does seem to be missing another useful stat from those 5 games: Opponent WLT 34-51.

 

[Lionsaint]

Interesting fact about those 5 opponents, we play all of them again this year. 3 of the 5 are in our division and all 5 are in our conference. If we play them the same way we did at the end of last year and get the same results we should win the division and make the playoffs. I didn’t care what their record was last year and won’t care what it is this year. Just win.

 

[Lionsaint]

And arguably the best of those 5 is the rams and we get them at home instead of on the road on a short week.

 

[St. Geezy]

That graphic does seem to be missing another useful stat from those 5 games: Opponent WLT 34-51.

You can only beat who you have on your schedule. Hell, most of the premise of this league is based on who handles their business against the teams they’re supposed to beat, while winning roughly half of the lucky coin flip games against good opponents.

You want to see your QB dominate opponents like those, which he did. The concern would have been if he looked average/subpar in those games, which he didn’t.

He came on late, and to me at least, gave us some encouraging signs heading into 2024.

And the last thing I’ll say is this…it’s a team sport.

 

[TribuneUK]

You can only beat who you have on your schedule. Hell, most of the premise of this league is based on who handles their business against the teams they’re supposed to beat, while winning roughly half of the lucky coin flip games against good opponents.

You want to see your QB dominate opponents like those, which he did. The concern would have been if he looked average/subpar in those games, which he didn’t.

He came on late, and to me at least, gave us some encouraging signs heading into 2024.

And the last thing I’ll say is this…it’s a team sport.

I'm not usually in the Debbie Downer camp, but the strength of the opposition in those games has to be critically reflected upon.

If we'd handled our business against teams we were supposed to beat, we wouldn't have been 5-7 coming into that final stretch. And in those first 12 games, our offense looked, for the most part, seriously subpar.

If the late season results had been such a strong endorsement of our team improving on O down the final stretch, why did we then can most of the offensive staff in the off-season?

I'm hopeful for the immediate future, but I won't blow smoke up this team's backside where it's unwarranted either.

 

[Madmarsha]

 

[St. Geezy]

I'm not usually in the Debbie Downer camp, but the strength of the opposition in those games has to be critically reflected upon.

If we'd handled our business against teams we were supposed to beat, we wouldn't have been 5-7 coming into that final stretch. And in those first 12 games, our offense looked, for the most part, seriously subpar.

If the late season results had been such a strong endorsement of our team improving on O down the final stretch, why did we then can most of the offensive staff in the off-season?

I'm hopeful for the immediate future, but I won't blow smoke up this team's backside where it's unwarranted either.

So no team has ever improved as a season has gone on? No player has ever gotten more comfortable with their new team/system after a few months?

Because we canned our staff this means the offense didn’t get better as the season went on?

 

[St. Geezy]

I'm not usually in the Debbie Downer camp, but the strength of the opposition in those games has to be critically reflected upon.

If we'd handled our business against teams we were supposed to beat, we wouldn't have been 5-7 coming into that final stretch. And in those first 12 games, our offense looked, for the most part, seriously subpar.

If the late season results had been such a strong endorsement of our team improving on O down the final stretch, why did we then can most of the offensive staff in the off-season?

I'm hopeful for the immediate future, but I won't blow smoke up this team's backside where it's unwarranted either.

Remember when we couldn’t block anyone for the first month of the season and had guys running incorrect routes/having bad line checks for two months?

 

[StudioSaint]

If the late season results had been such a strong endorsement of our team improving on O down the final stretch, why did we then can most of the offensive staff in the off-season?

This from your post might be an answer to your question.

...5-7 coming into that final stretch. And in those first 12 games, our offense looked, for the most part, seriously subpar.

It's possible that there was an improvement in the offense, DA recognized it, but still decided after the season was over that the first 12 games and last season warranted changes to the offensive staff.

The late season improvement was a combination of better offensive play and the quality of opponents. It wasn't one or the other, it was both.

 

[St. Geezy]

This from your post might be an answer to your question.



It's possible that there was an improvement in the offense, DA recognized it, but still decided after he season was over that the first 12 games and last season warranted changes to the offense staff.

The late season improvement was a combination of better offensive play and the quality of opponents. It wasn't one or the other, it was both.

Honestly I think our offensive system change had more to do with the system being archaic (we were very intentional in our coordinator search wanting one of the more modern offenses implemented), along with a position coach or three consistently not having their guys prepared properly, which was also an indictment on the fired coordinator as well.

 

[BreesusSaves]

That graphic does seem to be missing another useful stat from those 5 games: Opponent WLT 34-51.

So we penalize him for doing what we should expect a better player to do when facing lesser competition?

 

[SaintsMan209]

I went to the Rams game. We were utterly embarassed and never had a real chance. Allen made some questionable decisions and was over aggressive. Saints straight looked like trash out there. It was a waste of money to attend and the Saints looked downright pitiful.

 

[49erKiller]

Kay Adams (next week): "The Bengals are still my team. Don't sleep on them."

Kay Adams (the week after that): "The Bears are still my team. Don't sleep on them."

 

[SonOfNOLA]

Kay Adams (next week): "The Bengals are still my team. Don't sleep on them."

Kay Adams (the week after that): "The Bears are still my team. Don't sleep on them."

Take it as Saints are one of her teams that she thinks are good or can be good. She’s a sportscaster for NFLN. Saints won’t be the only team that she thinks highly of