Brady did not play well but the offensive playcalling was ******* abysmal. Maroney played well but he can't hold onto the ball but I love the way he is running. He still dances and is indecisive at times but has been much better.
I can not take having a rookie OC trying to be taught how to playcall in the NFL. We are down 14 points and we are running draw plays on 2nd and 10 at our own 30 yard line. Moss and Welker were basically non-factors. We let a secondary of McKenzie and McAlister both off the street shut us down. I'd seriously look into bringing in Weis or would have BB call the plays. As I said in the other thread, I DO NOT want a rookie OC calling plays for us in the postseason. We really miss McDaniels. Aside from that, Kaczur is an absolute disgrace. His man constanly beat him, the guy is absolute junk. We desperately need to see Vollmer at LT and Light RT.
On defense, holy crap what and anal cleaning we received. We play this passive, read and react, soft, keep everything in front of you defense to protect against the big play, and then we give up a 75 yd td, 38 yd td, and a 20 yd td. Wilhite was chewed on a consistent basis, and the CB's (Butler) are playing 10 yards off the WR on 3rd and 5. I do not know how Pees is still employed but the blame falls on BB as well. This gap control defense does not work against good QB's. It might work against guys like Sanchez and Collins and other garbage QB's but guys like Brees Manning Big Ben etc will pick you apart. We got absolutely no pressure on Brees. Take a page out of Rex Ryan's book. Look at how Brady is thrown off his game when he's pressured and knocked around. Why don't we try to do that to Manning or Brees? Instead we sit back and drop 7 or 8 guys into coverage and let them pass for 300 to 400 yards on us.
THe defense is a disgrace, it can't get off the field on 3rd downs. 3rd and 12 we rush 4, drop 7 and Brees misses an easy throw so we luck out but thta should have been a first down. I have never been so ashamed of a BB coached defense but we are in some serious trouble if we can't get this fixed. Hopefully BB rips into these guys and this embarrassing performance lights a fire under our bottoms.
The Saints can celebrate now, but as we learned in 07, we'd rather be playing our best football in January rather than in Week 12. I think the Saints are peaking too early.
