Tip of the hat to Greg Blache

The saints scored 24

sorry you're right. I forgot about the punt return by Bush.

The saints scored 24

7 was from the Bush punt return.. The defense hasn't given up more than 17

To give up 17 points in back to back weeks to a couple of pretty high powered offenses is pretty impressive. And the Giants 'O' is no slouch either. The 'D' under Blache appears to be in good hands.

Good Article! Thanks for posting that! And I like the move about benching Doughty after he screwed up. Its kind of dissapointing. He played much better last year. But right now Horton is cleary better.

7 was from the Bush punt return.. The defense hasn't given up more than 17

They also got put in a bad situation on the ARE fumble. Blache is doing a great job so far. I honestly thought the defense would play worse than it has cause of the loss of #21. But so far so good. Next week is the real test.

Interesting article, even more interesting is that Doughty was benched in favor of Horton due to mistakes he made. I wonder if Doughty has permanently lost his job.


Love this quote:

"After Dallas and Philly, people are going to have to start talking about us," Springs said. Saints quarterback Drew Brees (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Drew+Brees?tid=informline) "was number two in passer rating, and he left not in the top 10. Kurt Warner came in in the top two in passer rating. I don't know what he's leaving with, but after 200 yards, a pick and a couple of sacks, I don't think it'll be too good."

Blache reminds me of Petibon. Petibon never had stifling defenses - good to very good defenses, but none that were dominant. Like Petibon, Blache doesn't seem concerned about how his defense is percieved ("their to reactionary" "they don't attack enough" ) but is more interested in developing an effective scheme against the strengths of the team he is playing. In this past game, he pretty much gave up the run and attacked Arizona's passing scheme.

It will be interesting to see what his plan is for Dallas, as they seem to me to be a much more balanced team than Arizona.

Blache definitely has the defense in tune with who they are facing. He's limited the damage, so the offense can do their thing. Two weeks in a row, the Skins D has stopped high powered offenses (the Saints did put up 32 against a shotty Broncos D last night). Can he make it 3 in a row?

Howie Long likes it! (http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8593024/?MSNHPHMA)

Howie Long likes it! (http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8593024/?MSNHPHMA)


He's talking about us as if we're a good team but a hopeless team because we're in the NFC East. Not exactly a raving review but I guess we haven't earned it yet.