monday night football SAINTS/FALCONS discussion

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

Doesn't it seem like most prime-time games this year has been ****ty matchups?

I got no idea on this one....I don't wanna lay points on the road with the Aints, and I am not really itching to back Redman and the crappy Falcons either. Guess I'm going the tail route...maybe a totals tail...who's been the totals man this year? lol.


:puke:

[yomonte]

Atl will win this one and lose next week to TB. No line on next week yet, but I will play TB when it comes out. Atl and the over IMO

[daft_picks]

Great analysis, currently have the Falcons +10.5 in a teaser so I don't think I'm going to even play a side but the over seems enticing. Needs more thought though, as the game could very well be a grind for points with all the injuries here and there.

Need more opinions on this

[matt71211]

I just got completely shelled today. The Jets topped the cake though. It was so bad for me today, I had to come back to the forum.

With that out of the way I love your breakdown, and I too can't see the saints running the ball at all tommorrow. The Falcons for me are one of those teams I try to stay away from. As you said they like to play hard, but they just really suck which makes it hard to find good spots for them. I will probably make a play on the over here, not because this will be an entertaining shootout, but because I believe New orleans will jump out and probably force this over in the sloppy sort of way. Atlanta will probably be playing catchup all night, but I can't trust the '07 version of the Saints laying points to anyone(especially with Bush out).

GL

[theBOSS]

figured it only be appropriate if i got this going. still waiting for my fleur de lis avatar!:beerbang:

this is one of the best rivalries that no one knows about. both entered the league at the same time, cities are only 7 hours apart, every game seems to come down to a FG, cultures, and the falcons constantly raiding our roster lol (anderson, hebert, horn,etc). should be a good game. a lot of fans travel to the other teams away games. before vick came along and the falcants started selling out their stadium most of the upper deck used to be black and gold. fun times.

joe horn ran his mouth earlier with this gem:


"But to see what's happened and unfolded, man ... When you get power in this league — I own a business and I don't talk to people who work for me any kind of way. I don't treat them like dirt under my feet.

"Sooner or later, I don't care what profession you in, when you get power and you know you have power and you act like you're The Man, it will come back and bite you in the [behind]. So basically, it's the chicken coming home to roost. That's what it is.

"I'm talking about that genius that they hired in New Orleans."

think sean payton didn't take notice????

big words from a man who should have been out of the league two years ago and has ZERO td passes.:thumbs:


any way from a saints perspective this is a playoff game. after giving away the tampa game (i was there, it was miserable) we have no margin for error. i would have been more worried about them coming out flat if this were a sunday noon game but its monday night on prime time so they should be good to go.

atlanta comes into the game on the day of vicks sentencing on a 3 game skid. i've watched a couple of games and it looks like they play pretty hard until adversity hits and boom they fold like a cheap tent. itll be important for the saints to jump on them early. however, the falcons will be ready for prime time.

reggie bush and deuce mcallister are out and the saints offense is a shell of its former self, especially without mcallister. aaron stecker will carry the load. he's not oging to break anything but he's dependable. pierre thomas, rookie from illinois who showed flashes in pre season, will back him up. knowing sean payton i expect him to put the keys in brees' hand and tell him to drive. i expect plenty of 4 WR sets and to try to match up players on atlantas garbage safeties. look for devery henderson to test them deep. seems like he always makes big plays when we play them.

speaking of garbage DBs, the saints hgave some of the worst in the league except for mike mckenzie who has played like a pro bowler and it over shadowed by the ineptitude around him. jason david has been a complete bust as he's switching from a zone scheme with the colts to a man scheme with the saints. at safety josh bullocks has no ball skills and roman harper (although promising) still makes mistakes.

throwing the ball against him will be chris redman - louisville guy who's played under petrino before. if i were petrino i'd go deep all game long. we can't defend it and i dont know why teams dont do this more often. however, i expect petrino to ease him int othe game with the short stuff, taking his shots occasionally.

the key matchup will be the saints front 4 v. the falcants front 5. the falcants are really banged up along the line so will smith - and former UGA/georgia born charles grant must play on the other side of the line. saints are pretty adequate at stopping the run so i dont think that will be a factor. bottom line if we get pressure it will be a 31-6 game like the panthers a few weeks ago where we harassed carr all afternoon. if not...it could be like last week where mccown carved us up. we do have a tendancy to make bums into stars though :puke: .


in the end i just dont think atlanta has enough pride or gas to play 60 minutes anymore, especially if things dont go well early. there are severe internal problems there and its going to take an off season to weed them out.

i'll take a very angry SAINTS team coming off of last weeks debacle in a 28-17 type game.:thumbs: