Underhill article: “Saints moves are telling us what they felt the real problem with the team was last season” (140 Viewers)

[No2DC]

IMO, KKs system is highly likely that the backups will have significant platying time. Unlike our previous system that just required an Olineman to hold up a few seconds pass blocking.

Still a FO/coaching issue. Why would one assume that DA had multiple years to add talent for that system?

 

[St. Widge]

This seems interesting and relevant here. Apparently the Saints led the NFL in unique offensive lineups last year at 541. So, the injury thing on offense wasn't just imagination and clearly was worse than many others with of course all the caveats that you should have better depth to deal with that and you have to have better coaching, but that's still essentially impossible to overcome to be even an average offense.

On the other hand, the Falcons had amazing luck on offensive injuries and only had 104 unique offensive lineups.

By the way, I'm not exactly sure how they define "unique offense lineup". I assume it's the number of different formations and the variations of guys in those unique formations that were used over the year.

 

[WilliamBrees]

31 teams get exposed on a yearly basis.
What is your point?

Lions wouldn't be 15-2 or Vikings 14-3 without the schedule they had. Even we could have beaten the Jaguars, Titans, Colts, and 49ers. Texans still had a bad division, decent protection, Mixon, Collins, they lost their 2 and 3 receivers. Steelers started out 8-2 and then injuries started occurring. They closed out the year 2-5.

None of these teams suffered injuries the way we did.

 

[sfidc3]

The problem I have is that the folks on Airline tellling us we have a good roster are the same people who insisted that we had a great coaching staff under DA.

If the new staff is OK with the hand they've been dealt, that makes me feel better, for sure. But I put zero faith in what the front office says or believes any more.

Yup, completely understood, I'm just hoping that CKM has as much leeway/decision making power than it seems the FO claims....we will see what happens.....