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Exciting Game Today

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I hate to call the entire game exciting, because the flags have almost made football unbearable at this point, but division games are supposed to be close, and this one ended up that way. 

Resilient group you guys have. Not the nost talented group in the secondary, but the team played hard, even when down by multiple TDs. I know the losses are frustrating, but NFL seasons are short, and wins are hard to come by, which is why you savor seasons like last year even more. 

Not going to comment on officiating outside of this: at best, they were wildy inconsistent. At worst, completely inept. The game took forever to finish, because there seemed to be a flag and minute long discussion after every play. Terribly hard for any team to carry any type of momentum with that kind of officiating.

Anyway, good game fellas. Hang in there. The team should get better as the season goes on. I don't expect nice comments, but waited a while to post, so that maybe some of the emotion would fade. Have a good night, my friends.

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Yea at the beginning of the game the officiating was wildly lopsided but they pretty much evened out by the end.  I was about to have a conniption  when that DB wasn't flagged for PI on that Olsen push in the end zone, but one of the subsequent PI calls was a close one so I took it as a makeup. Outside of a few horrible calls/no calls/decisions early in the game they were pretty evenly terrible toward both teams.

On a separate note, you guys' secondary's inability to not commit PI in the end zone was ALMOST as laughable as our secondary's inability to play football in any way remotely resembling a professional level. 

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2 minutes ago, JawnyBlaze said:

Yea at the beginning of the game the officiating was wildly lopsided but they pretty much evened out by the end.  I was about to have a conniption  when that DB wasn't flagged for PI on that Olsen push in the end zone, but one of the subsequent PI calls was a close one so I took it as a makeup. Outside of a few horrible calls/no calls/decisions early in the game they were pretty evenly terrible toward both teams.

On a separate note, you guys' secondary's inability to not commit PI in the end zone was ALMOST as laughable as our secondary's inability to play football in any way remotely resembling a professional level. 

It's hard for me to be too upset about out DBs. Simply put, they're just not supposed to be playing. Moore and Webb weren't even on the team in preseason (Moore got hurt today, which put Dixon in, Dixon was cut in preseason before injuries decimated out secondary). Crawley is an UDFA who was supposed to redshirt this year and has basically become our #1 corner. 

Is it frustrating to watch? Certainly. But sometimes, fans expect too much of guys who simply aren't suppose to be being relied on as much as they are. If Breaux, Williams, and Swann are healthy, none of those corners are even on the field.

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It definitely was NOT a boring game in the 2nd half.  

And I totally agree with you about the refs.  Making me really question why I care about football when one or two bad calls / non-calls can utterly change the outcome and make the game seem random.  I know it's not new, but it seems worse this season, or maybe I'm just still dealing with the shock & trauma of the refs failure to call the illegal hits on Cam in week 1.... 

But you've got refs throwing stupid flags for BS stuff like celebrations, and then missing obvious calls.  So infuriating.  And yes every drive takes so long with all these flags...

No disrespect to the Saints, after all you've still got Brees.  But it was an embarrassing loss for us.  One thing to lose to Denver & Minn.  But to you guys with a lousy defense...  We gave it away.

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1 minute ago, saints4lifeagain said:

It's hard for me to be too upset about out DBs. Simply put, they're just not supposed to be playing. Moore and Webb weren't even on the team in preseason (Moore got hurt today, which put Dixon in, Dixon was cut in preseason before injuries decimated out secondary). Crawley is an UDFA who was supposed to redshirt this year and has basically become our #1 corner. 

Is it frustrating to watch? Certainly. But sometimes, fans expect too much of guys who simply aren't suppose to be being relied on as much as they are. If Breaux, Williams, and Swann are healthy, none of those corners are even on the field.

Yeah, if bradberry had been healthy brees would have only thrown for 400+ instead of 450+

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1 minute ago, KB_fan said:

It definitely was NOT a boring game in the 2nd half.  

And I totally agree with you about the refs.  Making me really question why I care about football when one or two bad calls / non-calls can utterly change the outcome and make the game seem random.  I know it's not new, but it seems worse this season, or maybe I'm just still dealing with the shock & trauma of the refs failure to call the illegal hits on Cam in week 1.... 

But you've got refs throwing stupid flags for BS stuff like celebrations, and then missing obvious calls.  So infuriating.  And yes every drive takes so long with all these flags...

No disrespect to the Saints, after all you've still got Brees.  But it was an embarrassing loss for us.  One thing to lose to Denver & Minn.  But to you guys with a lousy defense...  We gave it away.

Certainly not. The action picked up after halftime. Just hard to watch a game with that much laundry. 

Eh. At this point, your D isn't any better. I don't think you gave it away at all. Your defense just isn't good. At some point, you are what your record says.

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