First off, sorry to those out there who don’t follow football, because that’s mostly what you’re going to get from here on out.
I’m not disappointed at the Saints loss last night. Already Mike McKenzie is being pointed at as toast. Poor guy. I’m not McKenzie’s biggest fan, but I’m also not upset that he got burnt on a long bomb on second down during a preseason game.
The Steelers needed to win that game for their self-esteem. They have a new coach. The Saints didn’t, and played like it, and nobody got hurt.
Good things about the game:
- Reggie accepts a two-yard gain instead of a 5 yard loss.
- Reggie falls forward on both carries.
- Despite blitzes from the Steelers, we didn’t give up a sack. We got pressured and made questionable decisions, but we didn’t get sacked.
- Despite playing vanilla defense, we got in three sacks, two in the first quarter.
- Nobody got hurt.
Bad things about the game:
- Jamie Martin is not very good. Please don’t get hurt, Brees.
- Jason David got burnt even worse than McKenzie did.
- Where was Roman Harper?
- Where was Devery Henderson?
- The Saints’ first score was Fife to Dudley. Can there be two more doofus names?
And I really can’t believe Chris Collinsworth asked Michael Irvin if he felt like he deserved to be the Hall of Fame.
Collinsworth never has a kind word about the Saints. We could win the Super Bowl and he would never give the team any credit. Michael Irvin showed more class than I thought he ever he had. Guess you can finally grow up and accept responsibility for your actions. Collinsworth was too rude with that question and showed that he has no class.
It sounded like Palko played pretty well, except for the pick. Is that true? I didn’t see any of it but listened on the radio (870 reaches Atlanta at night) and read a lot.
We play a gain on Friday night vs. Buffalo.
Fife played well. I didn’t see Palko, but I heard that he led Meachem into traffic a lot and hung him out to get the big hit.
I saw the Meachem hit and was surprised that he got up. For the record, I’m going to say Meachem’s an absolute bust. He has been injury prone and just seem to be that good.
I think Olsen the tight end out of Miami would have been the better pick.
But our last Tennessee WR was so great!