What exactly happened to the defense vs the saints?

[Mr. Scot]

Watt was at home. We were in the dome (on a fast surface that favors speedy receivers).

And I don't necessarily think our pass rush was "ass" as much as the fact that in his home element, Brees can make a decision and have the ball out faster than you can say "aw shi..."

Don't assume that just because another team looks good, it automatically means our team played bad. They're professional football players too.

[MadHatter]

37 minutes ago, Bartin said:

Well aware of that, it was more of a commentary about how a good pass rush can disrupt that offense.

I agree...we really need the DE's to step up their game in the playoffs.  They up the pass rush a little and this defense truly reaches elite status.

[PhillyB]

they did a masterful job of exploiting our zone and routinely splitting the safeties, who were usually too aggressive (coleman) or missed the deep assignment on cover two zone (harper) and also they have drew brees.

guaranteed they're pissed about it and matt ryan is going to be roadkill by the final whistle

[Jon Snow]

Peyton had a great game plan and Brees.  Almost worked too, but we have Cam and Ron so they lost.  Up next, Matty Melt and Quin.  

[Guest Barry McCaulkinor]

Drew Brees ain't no scrub yo. 

[BIGH2001]

Luse McCown of all people had success against this defense early in the season. Peyton has a pretty good idea of how to attack the panthers schemes. 

[AviationMX]

it seemed we where literally a step away from pressure on brees most the game.. but yeah, i surprised on how we didn't adjust our D.

[LA_Panther]

Good topic OP

Our D-line is no longer our strength when it comes to our pass rush. That's the elephant in the room this season if there is any. Except for Kwann, there is no one in there wrecking havoc. Of course we can blitz and disguise coverages to compensate for that, but blitzing can backfire against good QBs if you don't execute.

Drew Brees is a hall of famer, but any NFL QB will hurt you with that much time back there. We need our D-line back at least creating pressure in the passing game. We still have a top 5 D, but our D-line is the weak link right now which was made obvious when we played zone which we did a lot of for some reason last Sunday

[CRA]

1.  Brees in the dome

2.  Saints basically up for their Super Bowl

3.  They only averaged about 3 runs a quarter so it was a slanted pass O to defend

4.  Norman didn't shadow their best and he had his worst game of the year on top of that 

5.  We benched our best pass rusher 

 

[panthers55]

Saints play an offense that is hard for us to blitz against.  Brees gets the ball out quickly and if we blitz and dont get there he will burn us with those dumpoffs and short passes.  I think it was us not playing well and after giving them a 14 point lead we had trouble as they gained confidence at home in front a very noisy crowd. What we showed is that we are going to win no matter what by any means possible. I think if we would have had to we might have put 50 on them.  .  

[raleigh-panther]

The one thing I noticed In replay and posted about it, Saints absolutely knew our blitz lane tendencies and as nothing appeared to get adjusted, Luke couldn't get there and what, Thomas once . Bree's ate them up and in so doing gave other teams the blue print  I'm sure Carson will take notes

i think it is pretty safe to say any upper level DE will be gone after in the draft as a priority...or a safety

I was surprised that Shaq Thompson was not more prevalent instead of Klein...you draft a guy in the first and use Klein instead, I just don't get it because if ever they needed speed on the field it was that game

[Raskle]

Drew Brees is most likely the absolute best QB at carving us up. He's had two games a year for the past nine to study us, and to figure out our tendencies on the line. Sure, new coaching change with Ron, new players every year, but we do tend to stick with our tendencies as a team. It's human nature.

He can adjust play calls at the line against us probably better than anyone else in the league. He showed it when we played, and got the ball out quick to holes he knew would be in our coverage. Even if other QBs try to emulate it, they won't be nearly as successful as he is, for the simple fact of familiarity.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

2 hours ago, PhillyB said:

they did a masterful job of exploiting our zone and routinely splitting the safeties, who were usually too aggressive (coleman) or missed the deep assignment on cover two zone (harper) and also they have drew brees.

guaranteed they're pissed about it and matt ryan is going to be roadkill by the final whistle

maybe its just the masochist/pessimist side of me but id rather see your weekly breakdown thread be more in depth of what we did wrong in the saints game vs what we are going to do in the falcons game

[raleigh-panther]

I am sorry, I don't mean to be contrary, but the Panthers also see Drew Brees twice a year, a Drew Brees without Jimmy Gramham, basically did whatever he wanted to do and that should not happened.

nothing he did should have been a surprise and it looked like Panthers were not prepared for it