Saints fans best wishes to the Pats fans and players

Pherein, you're in for it this week in the chat room if you show up :singing:

But seriously, looking forward to a good game. I hope we have Gronkowski because the Saints D looks way, way, way better than last season. And not sure how we'll cover Graham but BB will probably want to focus on him first.

Hopefully we can give you a much better game than last time we played...

Huge fan of Saint DC Rob Ryan knowing he has a history of giving Brady fitts over the years kinda surprised we didn't give him a call when he was released. Saints Defense is much improved with his addition I don't think thats a coincidence.

Thanx Bro same to you, Hopin for an INJURY FREE game for both teams and If Gronk plays which is a good possibilty with J Graham on same field would be cool.

Got my tix today. We're in section 323, row 8. I see that's upper deck in the corner. What's the view like up there?

PatsFanSince74 said:

You haven't seen your offense "break out yet?"

Ouch. That's rubbing it in, considering that you're averaging over 60 yards (405 v 343) and eight points (27 v 19) more per game. That's not even mentioning that your O is constituted in such a way as to allow your QB to have put together a 107.4 Pass Rating so far this season, vs. our guy's 80.5.

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Dont mean it that way, lol. I think Saints fans are pretty spoiled. I saw one stats that showed we had at least one 40pt game every six games. The offense has been so fun to watch carving up yards, I'll post states below, but we are used to 30-34 PPG average, tops in 3rd down, red zone, and maybe one or 2 games of low points to mess up the PPG average.
Id say our defense has probably won 3 of the games we have played, and that is completely stunning to us!
SAINTS OFFENSE

YPG since 2006:
2006 - 1st (391.5)
2007 - 4th (361.2)
2008 - 1st (410.7)
2009 - 1st (403.8)
2010 - 6th (372.5)
2011 - 1st (467.1)
2012 - 2nd (410.9)

Average of 402.5 YPG since 2006
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PPG Since 2006:
2006 - 5th (25.8)
2007 - 12th (23.7)
2008 - 1st (28.9)
2009 - 1st (31.9)
2010 - 11th (24.0)
2011 - 2nd (34.2)
2012 - 3rd (28.8)

Average of 28.2 PPG since 2006

Well those yards and PR are greatly skewed, by a touph Bengals game on the road, in the rain, losing wilfork, and so many injuries. ITs actually amazing that you have done so well. Youve got a real team there. Cin was the perfect trap game that everyone said you would win, without thinking of how badly you were beat up. You guys need a bye, lol.

Ivan said:

Pherein, as opposing fans go there isn't anyone better than you. You're a better poster in this forum than a large contingent of "Patriot fans."I can't wish the Saints any luck whatsoever because the Patriots are going to need all they can get to beat the Saints next week, and I want that game as much as any regular season game I can remember in a while because it is going to be absolutely frigging hilarious if the Patriots pull out a win next week and all the bandwagoneers have to go into hiding while they delete their recent posts. Given the nature of the posts here I would say this is going to be as close to a home game on the road as it gets.

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Nice thanks. Its going to be a real squeaker if you ask me. I know so many fans that are excited to be in foxboro. In a way its like going to see a big brother or were it all started. SP copied and modeled the team after BB, and the Patriots. We dont underestimate the Patriots one bit. Most know walking in that we're on your turf now, our coach is not better, and our QB is not better.
Not better looking, Bradys way to tall.

With Amendola, Gronk, and that defense. Saints will have to play error free, and find a run game..somewhere. Spikes is a complete beast.

convertedpatsfan said:

Pherein, you're in for it this week in the chat room if you show up :singing:

But seriously, looking forward to a good game. I hope we have Gronkowski because the Saints D looks way, way, way better than last season. And not sure how we'll cover Graham but BB will probably want to focus on him first.

Hopefully we can give you a much better game than last time we played...

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help..Looks like you got your wish, and were glad about that. I dont know many fans that are happy about playing an incomplete team, just doesnt feel like a win. Gronkowski's going to get his points, theres just no way around that.
Unlike Graham that boy is a brickhouse.
Use a step ladder, lol, Grahams weird because from far away he looks normal size, because hes proportioned evenly, but when you get up close your like, OMG, your big.
I slated a 4-2 at the bye, so im good to go, and you owe us

pherein said:

Nice thanks. Its going to be a real squeaker if you ask me. I know so many fans that are excited to be in foxboro. In a way its like going to see a big brother or were it all started. SP copied and modeled the team after BB, and the Patriots. We dont underestimate the Patriots one bit. Most know walking in that we're on your turf now, our coach is not better, and our QB is not better.
Not better looking, Bradys way to tall.

With Amendola, Gronk, and that defense. Saints will have to plat error free, and find a run game..somewhere. Spikes is a complete beast.

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I predict that it's going to be more competitive than some of us here believe, but I still think that you guys win by 10-14 pts or so. My question to the Saints D personnel is which target will warrant priority: Gronk or DA? Or is this more of a "they'll know who once they assess the situation" kind of deal?

Efstratios said:

I predict that it's going to be more competitive than some of us here believe, but I still think that you guys win by 10-14 pts or so. My question to the Saints D personnel is which target will warrant priority: Gronk or DA? Or is this more of a "they'll know who once they assess the situation" kind of deal?

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Tom, RR is always saying you need to take the best player off the field, and that's Brady. I think the bears games was a test for the same thing we wants to try in NE, and he has not been blitzing much.
Your team has done so well because of the run game and because Brady is getting time. Lofton or galette will bump gronkwoski on the line and then he will be man to man with vaccaro or Greer , and Jenkins will double over to stop Danny from making big TD plays. Thompkins might have a big day. I really like that kid, he's got it.

I think if either team can keep it close, it means either could have won, unlike other games.

Tom will have to run a very proficient offense to beat the Saints,I would love to see lots of no huddle plays all game,that's how you keep a dominant offense off the field and keep their defense on it.

I am not concerned about the defense as I know they will almost certainly give up at least 30 points in this game,it's up to the offense to score often to keep it close and hopefully score more than N.O.

This game will be a preview of the game against Denver in a month from now....a good showing,win or lose will be an indication of whether we can keep up with Manning and Co. because Brees is as great a QB as Manning is with all these top receivers at his disposal.

NOLA9 said:

Got my tix today. We're in section 323, row 8. I see that's upper deck in the corner. What's the view like up there?

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325 was my home for 10 years, not too far off. 323 and 324 were usually (at least while I was over there) used for away allocation, so you should be around a decent amount of Saints fans. View really is pretty decent, I've sat in much worse seats.

If our lbs come to play in terms of pass coverage saints lose this game. They are 1 dimensional like ATL. Ingrams a bust and sproles is mostly a pass catching and draw back. Cover the screens and jimmy with talib shutting down Colston and your looking good. I'm 100% confident that Dennard and Arrington are better then their #2 and #3 wideout.

Run on the saints ALL day and keep Bree's off the field.

Am I the only one that doesn't think this is gonna be a high scoring game? I can see a 20-17 23-20 game going either way. NO offense is legit and Graham scares the crap out of me, but our defense has been awesome so far this year. I think they'll be up to the task.

The Ryan brothers always play Brady good. They always dare us to run... That's why getting Ridley and Gronk back this week is huge. Get Ridley goimg , and hopefully we can catch the much improved Saints D off guard with Brady's beautiful play action.