I have a suspicion that Taysom might have gotten a bit nicked up earlier in the game. He got up kind of slow after one of his runs, and after that play, I can't remember us using him much. Otherwise, it's a no-brainer to use Taysom in that spot.
And this, J, illustrates what I'm talking about with attacking the saints gap rules up front and forcing them to communicate in a loud, hostile environment. It's easy to boil it down to "this/these players arent good" when it's really way more loaded than that. The falcons did a great job at scheming up their pressure in very subtle ways.
Louie doesnt think ATL is a bad team
i think this is the main benefit to having your insights - most of our takes look for the magic bullet, "what one or two things provides the answer to why we won (or lost as the case may be)"
Yes, that sorta thing is really simple and really complex, at the same time. It's generally simple when you wind it back and say this is what happened and you should have done this, but very complex before the fact, when it's loud, and a defense is doing things which are unexpected.
I'm not sure which play you're talking about, but Peat might have been playing his assignment. If the guy blitzing is assigned to someone else, then generally you let that guy block who he's supposed to. Was it the one where Kamara looked to miss the free rusher? That came from the left.
I think that may have been the play where it looks like Kamara was on the backer on that side, started on a route, saw the blitzer and tried to re-direct to get him but by then Hurst and the pass rusher he was blocking was already in the way. Maybe it was a different play. But essentially, OL don't really 'decide' who to block so much as the follow the assignments based on the scheme and the relevant protection/slide calls. If that defender was for the RB to block, then Peat shouldn't block him because he rushes. Possibly, He would have been sliding to the A gap with the expectation, pre-snap, that the overload was on the right side and McCoy and Ruiz would have their own guys to block.
Okay. Many of those blitzes were not their fault. I saw Winston bring the ball back down which gave the blitz time to succeed. It seemed that many of Winston's passes were outside the hash marks in the first half particulalry. Quick passes over the middle are a matter of timing and are Thomas' bread and butter. The Saints didn't do much of that in the 1st half. I'd like to see a placement chart for Winston's passes to validate my observation. Also, it would be interesting to see how long on average Winston hold onto the ball during pass plays. Hopefully, his release time will improve once the rust shakes off.
they are referencing the sack on the first drive of the second half. I remember watching the replay and seeing McCoy and Ruiz engage the same guy, while Peat slid over to block the same player. I made a thread about it wondering whose responsibility it was to slide the protection over. I'm still not sure what Peat's responsibility was on that play?
Those type of mistakes are easier to correct than trying to correct guys who just gets beat playing the right assignments consistently. The O-Line will get it together. We shouldn’t expect them to be the first 3 quarters bad again this season as long as they’re healthy.
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