Bye week game day thread

[Davidson Deac II]

38 minutes ago, bigdog10 said:

I honestly don’t see a team in the NFC that matches what the saints bring. Their defense is far and away the best in the conference and their offense doesn’t really have a weakness. 
 

Id like to see Minnesota get in just to screw with them mentally, but I think they cake walk through the NFC and then get a tough test with either Pittsburgh or KC. 

The Saints have played a very weak schedule.  I think they have played four games against winning teams, and lost two of them.  Their two wins were against the Bucs.  They lost to the Raiders and Green Bay.  The Saints have one remaining tough game, against the Chiefs.  Green Bay's toughest game is against TN.  GB and NO could end up tied, which means a Jan trip to Lambeau field for NO.  

[Moo Daeng]

33 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

He didn’t want to stay here dude. And who could blame him? We’re a perennial cellar-dweller. 

Nobody ever considers that the player is half the equation if not more. We were told well in advance that Bradberry was looking to leave. Like Star

[Basbear]

4 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

The Saints have played a very weak schedule.  I think they have played four games against winning teams, and lost two of them.  Their two wins were against the Bucs.  They lost to the Raiders and Green Bay.  The Saints have one remaining tough game, against the Chiefs.  Green Bay's toughest game is against TN.  GB and NO could end up tied, which means a Jan trip to Lambeau field for NO.  

Saints have a true team, they have a legit "star/all-pro" at every single position group...including STs. Cam Jordan is just as good if not better than Kmack, hes gets no media love. Healthy Kamara is looking like he should be the highest paid RB, not CMC. I hope they continue the epic playoff failures, this should be the last year for them being at in elite status.  

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, Moo Daeng said:

Nobody ever considers that the player is half the equation if not more. We were told well in advance that Bradberry was looking to leave. Like Star

They really aren't though. Not elite players. Not when the franchise tag exists.

[Davidson Deac II]

6 minutes ago, Basbear said:

Saints have a true team, they have a legit "star/all-pro" at every single position group...including STs. Cam Jordan is just as good if not better than Kmack, hes gets no media love. Healthy Kamara is looking like he should be the highest paid RB, not CMC. I hope they continue the epic playoff failures, this should be the last year for them being at in elite status.  

meh, we will see.  Their defense is great, but I don't think their offense has been that good over the last several weeks, even before Brees went out.  Good enough to win against weak teams.  But KC will be at another level.  So will Green Bay, and even the Rams if they play them in the playoffs.  

[stirs]

41 minutes ago, TLGPanthersFan said:

Atlanta is 8th and it isn’t a forgone conclusion that the Football Team will lose to the Steelers. 

Maybe we get lucky and Denver beats the Chiefs, hope so.  Lots of people right behind us

[Butterflyj30]

I was going to watch the Sunday night game but Direct TV Has lost channel 36 

 

Thank Goodness for the Yahoo Sports App 

[LinvilleGorge]

12 minutes ago, TikTOK said:

Broncos will beat them tonight. Then lose to us next week.

The Broncos will get blasted in the second half. Against the Chiefs, you know the avalanche will hit at some point and the Broncos don't have a prayer of keeping pace when it does.

[Peon Awesome]

It's kind of funny how at the same time we're calculating how high up in the draft we might go, we were a 4th quarter collapse against Minnesota away from being 1 game out of a wild card spot with head-to-head tie breakers over our 2 main competition in Arizona and Minnesota. 

[stbugs]

Holy crap, blast from the past for FF people. Alfred Morris scored both TDs for the Giants today. He hadn’t scored since 2018 and hasn’t had more than 2 TDs in a season since 2014.

[MasterAwesome]

54 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

They really aren't though. Not elite players. Not when the franchise tag exists.

You seriously wanted us to spend $16 million for a 1-year rental of Bradberry in a rebuilding season where we had no chance of competing (as you’ve stated repeatedly)? So we could maybe end up 6-10 instead of 5-11?

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, MasterAwesome said:

You seriously wanted us to spend $16 million for a 1-year rental of Bradberry in a rebuilding season where we had no chance of competing (as you’ve stated repeatedly)? So we could maybe end up 6-10 instead of 5-11?

You would've had a chance to re-sign him with a new staff or you could've traded him. The players evidently love Rhule. Seems that people forget that early indications were that we were prioritizing re-signing Bradberry, but early in negotiations our numbers were way far apart and we never revisited. We instead gave a pile of money in a fairly average starting LB.

[4Corners]

1 hour ago, Moo Daeng said:

Nobody ever considers that the player is half the equation if not more. We were told well in advance that Bradberry was looking to leave. Like Star

Oh my God Chuckie just made a good post 

[stbugs]

27 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

You would've had a chance to re-sign him with a new staff or you could've traded him. The players evidently love Rhule. Seems that people forget that early indications were that we were prioritizing re-signing Bradberry, but early in negotiations our numbers were way far apart and we never revisited. We instead gave a pile of money in a fairly average starting LB.

A lot of people were fine paying Short and Okung $27M (not even counting Shaq) and now all of a sudden franchising Bradberry hoping to extend him is so bad because we weren’t going to be competitive? Where were the don’t sign Bradberry because we won’t be competitive people back before we shelled out almost $100M in cap?