Saints @ 49ers last year (1 Viewer)

[SaintsMan209]

I know this conversation has been over with for a long time but there is something I need to bring up. I still think something happened that we don't know about. The whole thing just seems weird to me. How did that bootleg work PERFECTLY and then how did we let VD catch those two long passes? I think there was something else going on that we're not being made aware of. Some sort of a disagreement between 3G and Payton. To this day I don't understand why Payton didn't call a timeout to kill the other teams momentum.

How did that bootleg work perfectly? Did they know something they shouldn't? Call me a conspiracy theorists but that game never sat well with me because I felt like something happened.

 

[Vacherie Saint]

I'm guessing its the predictability of the GW defense. Everyone knows what he's going to do. If you can get the ball out quickly, or move your QB around, you can expose him because half of the back 7 are blitzing upfield.

 

[Sumdude34]

Is it safe to say that our offense beat their defense? I got in a debate over that the other day cause someone said oh the saints couldn't handle the #1 defense and i was like well they kinda did. Didn't drew have over 400?

 

[St.Dan]

It's pretty simple. GW went for the kill-shot and didn't get there. It belongs right up there with the team's all-time heartbreakers. Even now, I can't look at video of the Sproles TD or the Graham TD without tearing up a little. A bit like looking at a photo of a friend or family member right before they died. That might sound a little crazy, but it was THAT wrenching.

 

[blackngold4877]

You know who you sound like?

Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints - Box Score - January 24, 2010 - ESPN

 

[Vacherie Saint]

Is it safe to say that our offense beat their defense? I got in a debate over that the other day cause someone said oh the saints couldn't handle the #1 defense and i was like well they kinda did. Didn't drew have over 400?

32 points, 471 Yards, and 26 first downs. Yes, its safe.

I'm not sure its fair to blame this one on GW. We turned it over 5 times.

 

[naren]

The way our team is setup, its offensive power. The defensive side is like a support cast. Our offense and mainly the special team's, making some mistake's at the wrong time caused a lot of problem. In the second half Drew was on fire and the special team made a mistake. And our defense played exactly the way it played the whole year. Drew made up for the interception and the fumble by Thomas. But the the special team's mistake's were too much for our offense and defense.

 

[Boondock]

That game was lost when we turned the ball over for the 3rd time, but somehow Drew Brizzle and Co. still kept us in it even with 5 turnovers. Statistically speaking it is nearly impossible to win a football game after committing more than 2 turnovers. Another tidbit of info... before that game I think we had the leagues lowest fumbles on the season. Ain't karma a *****!

 

[superchuck500]

I know this conversation has been over with for a long time but there is something I need to bring up. I still think something happened that we don't know about. The whole thing just seems weird to me. How did that bootleg work PERFECTLY and then how did we let VD catch those two long passes? I think there was something else going on that we're not being made aware of. Some sort of a disagreement between 3G and Payton. To this day I don't understand why Payton didn't call a timeout to kill the other teams momentum.

How did that bootleg work perfectly? Did they know something they shouldn't? Call me a conspiracy theorists but that game never sat well with me because I felt like something happened.

You're saying 3G threw the game to spite Payton? Or Payton didn't call the TO to make 3G bear the shame of his defense giving up the winning score?

Wow. In the NFL, winning is more important than anything else. What you're suggesting is unfathomable IMO.

 

[CDinSTL]

I agree with the the predictability of our defense. Clayton (for what its worth) speculated an interesting point in that GW knew he was not going to be retained after the season and called plays to make him look good (if they worked) not to preserve a lead late in the game. So Clayton's accusation was that GW called plays to get a new job not what was in the best interest of the team, thus going for the kill shot and getting burned.

 

[Darth Deuce]

It's pretty simple. GW went for the kill-shot and didn't get there. It belongs right up there with the team's all-time heartbreakers. Even now, I can't look at video of the Sproles TD or the Graham TD without tearing up a little. A bit like looking at a photo of a friend or family member right before they died. That might sound a little crazy, but it was THAT wrenching.

I hate it, too. That was a fantastic game (from a football fan's point of view), and I would love to be able to watch it over and over, but I just can't knowing how it ended. It's unfortunate.

 

[Symbiote]

Beating a dead horse.

That game was over when the Alex Smith bootleg happened. They were just laughing and showing how crappy our defense was to let a mediocre crappy quarterback pull a Tecmo bowl play and actually score from it. I know no one wants to accept that, but it's true. You turn the ball over 5 times, you are going to lose. Those turnovers are as much to blame as the defense doing absolutely nothing to stop them in the final 5 minutes of that game.

After the turnovers, the play calling also was pretty bad. I don't care about Brees completions either, he threw the ball over 60 times....Where was the running game? They didn't even try to run it if he threw it 60 times. The games we won in the regular season, we were running the ball very well. Brees shouldn't have had to throw it up that many times.

 

[Symbiote]

That game was lost when we turned the ball over for the 3rd time, but somehow Drew Brizzle and Co. still kept us in it even with 5 turnovers. Statistically speaking it is nearly impossible to win a football game after committing more than 2 turnovers. Another tidbit of info... before that game I think we had the leagues lowest fumbles on the season. Ain't karma a *****!

It's impossible to win a playoff game when you turn the ball over 5 times, and become so one dimensional to the point your quarterback is throwing the ball 60 times the entire game.

Lesson learned with Dan Marino. Even in playoff game where they didn't turn the ball over, he'd put up god like stats from airing it out so much, but no running game, and they would end up losing.

 

[Symbiote]

Is it safe to say that our offense beat their defense? I got in a debate over that the other day cause someone said oh the saints couldn't handle the #1 defense and i was like well they kinda did. Didn't drew have over 400?

If that is safe to say, you might as well say the Vikings offense beat our defense back in 2009, because they had over 400 yards compared to our crappy 200 and something, but they didn't have the 6 turnovers that we had.

Forgetting the 5 turnover part...That's all that mattered. Sorry but they beat us on the one thing that changed the entire game. You don't win when you turn it over that many times, we were very lucky to even be alive in that game, cause if they had an offense like GB or NE that could have scored without turnovers, we would have been blown out badly.

 

[Bullethead527]

If half of the turnover lead to points instead of SF possessions, y'all would have blown out the SF, I mean when I was watching that game, and Brees led them back in it before the half, I was like SF is in trouble now. I think it was 17-14. at the half, when Brees gets on fire that man is damn near unstoppable.