Someone has to say it... (Saints)

[CajunEXPRESS]

We lost a lot of starters in Okafor, Klein, Anzalone,Breaux,Fairley and Peat.

Fired our team doctors, sent a hall of fame running back packing for a rookie.

Played under the craziest ownership battle one could imagine and most of all started the season 0-2.

Not how we wanted it to end, but the future is bright. We sort of overacheived this year. Who Dat!

I can take getting beat, but we lost that game on a
play NFL safeties and corners make 99.9% of the time. That's it we didn't get beat we lost.

Screw next year, nobody is promised next week much less next year.

[cajundiehard]

I think that the DB was ducking to avoid the pass interference penalty as I’m sure Saints coaches were telling the DB’s not to interfere during the timeout just before... So when the rookie gets there a tad early he ducks to avoid the pass interference and the rest is history. Honestly, if he doesn’t duck and does go through with the tackle, I think it’s a bang bang play and no flag would have been thrown.

Oh well... Hopefully Brees comes back for one more year... My wish would be #1 seed and home field throughout the playoffs.

WhoDat!

[Just1More]

Sadly enough that is how these players “tackle” these days. Head down and prayer

I’ve seen that “tackle” 100 times... maybe 1000. It’s the armless, handless collision tackle where the target is supposed to fall from the impact. It does jar a ball loose from the receiver every now and then. This wasn’t time for it.

I feel bad for 43, actually. All of his colleagues in the NFL do it every game. He does it at the worst possible time. I hope he doesn’t take the failure of this tackling flaw personally. If he gets punched in the nuts for it... so should most coaches in collegiate and pro football. He didn’t learn that on his own.

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[Tripple Threat]

We lost a lot of starters in Okafor, Klein, Anzalone,Breaux,Fairley and Peat.

Fired our team doctors, sent a hall of fame running back packing for a rookie.

Played under the craziest ownership battle one could imagine and most of all started the season 0-2.

Not how we wanted it to end, but the future is bright. We sort of overacheived this year. Who Dat!

Yeah, but they were there. You don't get "there"'every year. That was tough to see.

[BrockMeaux]

We spotted them the worst half of football we've played all year and 17 points, and they needed the confluence of that ball in that spot with that tackle attempt (not to mention not calling a neutral zone infraction on our 3rd and 1 attempt before the go-ahead FG) to win.

It sucks, yeah. I think we played well enough to deserve to win, even including the horrible first half. But they played well all game and they made one more play than we did. Not going to hang on to the loss for a decade or anything (lord knows I heard Vikings fans talk about bounties in 2009 all week). Hopefully we get the opportunity again. Guys learn from mistakes, and Williams was rock solid all season long as a rookie starter until the last play. Biggest message they get, I hope, is that you need to leave no doubt. Win more in the regular season to make opportunities come to you in the postseason.

[studentfan]

The problem was that Williams thought about the tackle right before the attempt at making the tackle. If he just runs into the guy without thinking about it the game is over...rookie mistake. Hope this one play doesn't define his career.

[Turbine]

The problem was that Williams thought about the tackle right before the attempt at making the tackle. If he just runs into the guy without thinking about it the game is over...rookie mistake. Hope this one play doesn't define his career.

Having to "think" makes great athletes less than average players.

[anhil8tor]

The Saints are who we thought they were.

[CharlieK]

I’ve seen that “tackle” 100 times... maybe 1000. It’s the armless, handless collision tackle where the target is supposed to fall from the impact. It does jar a ball loose from the receiver every now and then. This wasn’t time for it.

I feel bad for 43, actually. All of his colleagues in the NFL do it every game. He does it at the worst possible time. I hope he doesn’t take the failure of this tackling flaw personally. If he gets punched in the nuts for it... so should most coaches in collegiate and pro football. He didn’t learn that on his own.

Silver lining...maybe, just maybe, this will be the beginning of the end of the infatuation with that terrible tackling technique.