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Super Saints Weekly 219

Packers vs. Saints Game Recap

            The Saints continued their winning ways this week under Payton with a victory against the Green Bay Packers.  The Saints seemed to play a pretty balanced game this week providing plays on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball.  While they were playing against a much less talented team in the Packers, the Saints broke a trend that they used to do in the past, play down to the level of their opponent.  The victory gives the Saints a very strong start to the season and while they might raise an extra eyebrow or two with their strong start, they likely will be able to continue to fly under the radar at least for another week or two.  Once again congratulations to the Saints for their strong victory this week and their impressive 2-0 start to begin the season.

Player of the Game

            This week’s Player of the Game is Drew Brees.  Helping lead his team to a second straight victory to start the year, Brees seemed to be one of the more vital components of the team.  Brees finished the game with 354 yards passing and two touchdowns, for a very solid performance.  While a few players could have been considered for this week’s honor, Brees seemed the most worthy and helps give the Saints a strong start to the season under the Payton/Brees/Bush era.

Q & A

            Q & A is the question and answer section.  If you have a question you would like answered, email it to SuperSaintsWeekly@yahoo.com with the subject heading of Q&A and we will try to answer the question to the best of our ability.

Q –  JB, do you believe that the Saints are truly utilizing Reggie Bush or should he be rushing the ball more instead? – Brandy; <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Baton Rouge, La

A –  Overall you don’t want Bush strictly to be a runner because you really limit his abilities.  He is better as a pass receiver and running back instead of strictly using him as a runner.  By using him as a dual threat, the Saints utilize Bush’s ability which helps to show off his explosiveness.  Basically the more options the Saints use Bush for the better he has of making a game breaking play. 

Falcons vs. Saints Game Preview

            The Saints will open off division play this coming week with a Monday night game against the Falcons.  While this is always a heated rivalry, the fact that it’s the Saints first game back in the Super Dome should provide a little more emotion this week in possibly one of the biggest games the Saints will have played in recent years.  In order to pull out a victory against the Falcons, the Saints will need to do several things on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball.  Offensively the Saints will need to continue to mix things up and limit turnovers while protecting Brees.  Defensively, the two keys to the Saints winning will be limiting rushing yards so that Vick is forced to pass and minimizing his scrambling ability.  If the Saints are able to do this, then they should be able to pull a victory out against the Falcons and give them a chance to continue to build momentum for this season.

Psycho’s View

            Overall I must admit that I am extremely excited with the Saints quick starts out of the gate.  While I believe offensively the Saints could improve some things and get the ball in the end zone a bit more consistently, I must admit that you are starting to see some of the rust working off of some of the players.  Defensively the Saints have been pretty impressive and appear actually to make adjustments as the game progressed, unlike they used to in previous seasons under the former coaching staff.  On defense they should continue to improveas the players continue to gel and adjust to one another. 

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