Saints Stuff…

[boozeman]

 

[Cotton]

Thank god Brady is in there.

 

[Rev]

I did find it funny yesterday when Brady was thanking Pereira for protecting him.

 

[Stars]

Yeah the broadcast was certainly generic with Brady there. There were also several points in the game where it was just silence and dead air. I'm hoping after a few games, the "we're broadcasting with Tom Brady, isn't it cute" schtick fades and it might actually improve. Right now it's still in novelty phase.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Simpleton]

The Saints are nowhere near as good as the score was yesterday so hopefully they'll come in thinking highly of themselves and we win even easier than we would otherwise.

Basically as long as we don't hand them gifts in the form of penalties/turnovers we should win relatively comfortably.

There are only about 5-10 teams in the league where that isn't the case and the Saints damn sure aren't one of them.

 

[Stars]

Wow that would be great news. Next report: The Jake Ferguson burial will be at 2:30 today.

 

[boozeman]

Wow that would be great news. Next report: The Jake Ferguson burial will be at 2:30 today.

 

[Simpleton]

Probably the best case scenario, might miss 2-3 weeks depending on how it goes. If we're 3-1 or 4-0 they may have give him an extra week or two.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Texas Ace]

If he's anything like his dad, he'll be a heck of an OC.

 

[Simpleton]

He came from SF so this might be a decent trial run against something close to their offensive design.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

If he's anything like his dad, he'll be a heck of an OC.

I think he's already pretty good. He was my choice a few years ago if we could ditch Moore.

 

[boozeman]

 

[1bigfan13]

Yeah the broadcast was certainly generic with Brady there. There were also several points in the game where it was just silence and dead air. I'm hoping after a few games, the "we're broadcasting with Tom Brady, isn't it cute" schtick fades and it might actually improve. Right now it's still in novelty phase.

He's a guy that would've been better served to start his broadcast career in a traditional manner.....working his way up from 2nd/3rd tier games.

Throwing him out there on the #1 team for these high profile games has only set him up for ridicule and criticism.

I bet most of his colleagues in the broadcast profession are rooting against him. There aren't that many of these jobs and it has to be frustrating watching someone with no experience walk in off the street and get the premier job as well as the highest salary. If Brady falls on his face maybe it forces networks to go back to the traditional way of promoting analysts and broadcasters.

 

[Foobio]

He doesn’t provide anything interesting in the way of technical analysis. Greg Olsen is a puke but he definitely has insights as to what happens on the field. Brady didn’t do very much of that. It was mostly vanilla stories about the QB position. And I can’t believe they agreed to give him that sort of money. They’ll regret that most likely. He was a great player but his ego is annoying. I do like Burkhardt though, he knows what he’s doing and can carry a weak broadcast partner like Brady.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

He doesn’t provide anything interesting in the way of technical analysis.

Exactly. That's what made Romo so good at first, his predictions based on formations, etc. He tipped us laymen off to things that analysts usually don't see or talk about. Brady did none of that. He was just a bunch of generic cliches and coach-speak.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Was listening to some of the PCs and was struck by how much praise Schottenheimer had for Luepke. Volunteered it, too. Said he was really underrated and did more things well than people realized. Kind of cool.

Also praised Spann-Ford's physical nature and how well he blocked. I guess we knew they liked him by how many snaps he played, but still.

 

[Simpleton]

Was listening to some of the PCs and was struck by how much praise Schottenheimer had for Luepke. Volunteered it, too. Said he was really underrated and did more things well than people realized. Kind of cool.

Also praised Spann-Ford's physical nature and how well he blocked. I guess we knew they liked him by how many snaps he played, but still.

While watching the all-22 of the OL Spann-Ford really stood out as a blocker in limited snaps, you can see why they kept him on the 53 because he might be our best blocking TE.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Was listening to some of the PCs and was struck by how much praise Schottenheimer had for Luepke. Volunteered it, too. Said he was really underrated and did more things well than people realized. Kind of cool.

Also praised Spann-Ford's physical nature and how well he blocked. I guess we knew they liked him by how many snaps he played, but still.

I mean I feel best about Luepke catching the ball and running with it after. He isn't as long and rangy as the TEs but for what we do I think he can fill a lot of the shoes of a TE.

What we will miss is that seam route that Ferg is really good at with Dak. Stephens is probably your only replacement for that and he has a sore puss or something.