Where was Kendre Miller in the Packers game?? [Rizzi says game flow of falling behind changed Miller’s touches] (2 Viewers)

[saintfan1972]

Mims dropped like 3 passes so that worked out well. We are just devoid of talent right now. Plain and simple

 

[Day1]

The word is that Miller can't pass protect.

NO ONE can pass protect.

 

[renegadewa]

For the life of me do not understand how we kept giving touches to mims and Williams over miller.

Do you really think Miller would make a difference?

He's a 3rd or 4th string running back at best!

 

[Domeination]

Game flow of falling behind has probably changed Rizzi’s touches.

 

[tim martin]

For the life of me do not understand how we kept giving touches to mims and Williams over miller.

made no sense. no more mims for gods sake. let’s actually find out if miller is a good player who can one day replace kamara or at least be part of the takeover

 

[MikeyF]

Rizzi had a really bad day against the Packers...

 

[Winter]

Translation: Kendre isn’t good in pass protection yet.

Is it common for RBs to need to catch up in the pros with pass pro? I would think by year 2 in the pros, either you can do it or you can't. If he is a liability in the passing game, then I think he's becoming too situational and conditional. IIRC he was drafted to take over RB1 from Kamara as his career winds down. I'll reserve full judgement until the end of the season, but I was expecting him to get a lot of work down the stretch and prove that he can be an everyday player.

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

Is it common for RBs to need to catch up in the pros with pass pro? I would think by year 2 in the pros, either you can do it or you can't. If he is a liability in the passing game, then I think he's becoming too situational and conditional. IIRC he was drafted to take over RB1 from Kamara as his career winds down. I'll reserve full judgement until the end of the season, but I was expecting him to get a lot of work down the stretch and prove that he can be an everyday player.

Didn’t he miss the entirety of TC when the new system was being installed?

 

[tyler735]

Rizzi had a really bad day against the Packers...

Agreed. It was an absolute disaster from a coaching perspective. I thought poor decisions were made by Rizzi even before kickoff. I was absolutely baffled by the decision to defer receiving the ball until the 2nd half. We had a rookie QB playing in one of the toughest environments in the NFL. I just don't understand the idea of giving Green Bay the ball first and allowing them to have an opportunity to score on the first possession of the game forcing Rattler and the Saints offense into "catch up" mode the entire game. Sure ultimately the Packers likely would have taken the lead in early in the 1st half had the Saints had the ball first, but it still would have allowed for a more balanced game plan on offense for a longer period of time.

Then Rizzi's incompetence during the 1st half "2 minute drill" was maybe the worst I've ever seen in almost 30 years of watching football. On back to back plays, he failed to call a timeout until a ton of time went off the clock. We wasted almost an entire minute on 2 plays due to his failure to call timeouts and in doing so limited the play calls for Rattler and our offense to effectively drive down the field to get on the scoreboard before half time. This could have "gotten us back in the game" going into half time as we would have gotten the ball back to start the 2nd half. I'm sure we still would have lost, but it may have at least been a little more competitive with better coaching.

Not sure if this was a Rizzi or a Kubiak decision, but to essentially take Kendre Miller out of the game for most of the 2nd half in favor of Jordan Mims was also an absolute headscratcher. I've seen some comments that it may have been due to Miller's pass blocking. Mims offered nothing in that regard. While also dropping like 3 passes. Sure the passes weren't super well thrown, but all of them were catchable. I also thought when Mims did actually catch the ball, he offered almost nothing after the catch. Miller has at least shown he can make a defender miss or run through a defender. Mims basically was an easy tackle as soon a defender was near him. Miller also caught his targets in that game and had a couple nice plays in the pass game, just didn't make sense to me to completely abandon him.

 

[nolaswede]

Apparently Rizzi thought that 0-32 was acceptable. Wonder how bad the score would be with Miller in the line up!

 

[madsaint1967]

Rizzi had a really bad day against the Packers...

This!! His time management was reminiscent of DA, lights looked too bright for him!

 

[Goatman Saint]

I’m still waiting to see this great running back you all see in Miller.

 

[SirLoinSaint64]

NFL level soft.