Saints Colts game chat

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by GusFrerotte

I feel for the guy that had to cover Wayne all night, but a lot of the time he was out of position. Have to agree with some poster from Foxsports.com, the Saints will be lucky to even contend for the playoffs let alone a SB. They looked like they were still in preseason game 1 mode. Addai almost had equal amout of yards of the Bush/Mcallister tandem. Brees really stunk it up with most of his passing yardage off of those dump off screens to Bush/Mcallister.

What do you mean almost?
Addai, 118 rushing + 25 rec. = 143 yards

Bush, 38 rushing + 7 rec. = 45 yards
McAllister, 38 rushing + 7 rec. = 45 yards

TOTAL, 76 rushing + 14 rec. = 90 yards.

So Addai blew them both away with 53 more yards!

I thought Bush looked extremely overrated in this game...he was too busy going east and west and not concentrating on going north and south and getting those important first downs.

[MTK]

It's only something that's been on QB helmets for whatever reason.

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

It's only something that's been on QB helmets for whatever reason.

It's because the NFL put a new rule in concerning the Radio Devices equipped in QB helmets. Basically, only one of those helmets is allowed on the field at a time. The green sticker just visually identifies which helmet has it.

[Slinginsammy06]

Well the Colts are up by 17 points so I think it's time for people to come to their senses and get off the saints bandwagon.

[drew54]

Green sticker:Garage Sale Helmet.

Seriously : I've heard that the green dot is to help officials confirm that only one player on offense is wearing a helmet with a radio receiver from the coaching staff. So, if a team plans to put two quarterbacks on the field at the same time [for a trick play], one of them must change helmets before entering the game.

Yahoo! Answers - Y r nfl qbs wearing green stickers on helmets?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by drew54

Green sticker:Garage Sale Helmet.

Seriously : I've heard that the green dot is to help officials confirm that only one player on offense is wearing a helmet with a radio receiver from the coaching staff. So, if a team plans to put two quarterbacks on the field at the same time [for a trick play], one of them must change helmets before entering the game.

Yahoo! Answers - Y r nfl qbs wearing green stickers on helmets?

Interesting, thanks!

[mooby]

Yeah it looks like the Colts defense is back in top form. Every season the Colts take losses through free agency and etc. and every season everyone thinks they will be worse than last year (including myself), and every season they look the same, if not better. Their defense definitely looks better so far, and I definitely thought it was gonna be worse considering the losses. It looks like they knew what they were doing when they let Jason David go to, the guy's been nothing short of bad tonight (other than the fumble return for a td).

[Slinginsammy06]

Colts up 24 to the saints. Manning is just throwing bombs and making it look so easy. Why do people have the saints going to the superbowl?

[wilsowilso]

Oh and the Saints one touchdown was scored by the defense.

[Slinginsammy06]

The saints blow

[jsarno]

Well, we all knew that the Indy offense would still be stout, I guess the thoughts of the NO defense being stout was a bit off though.
What concerns me is the NO offense. I would have never expected that. They did not score tonight (the 1 td was a defensive td). Brees looked like Brunell last year with his dinks and dunks.
I touched upon something a few weeks back here about the fact that the Saints wr's weren't very good and Colston is a bit overrated. It showed tonight. Colston only scored 2 of his td's when Horn wasn't in the lineup, the rest was when he was. Colston is not good enough to be a sole #1.
Of course, the Indy defensive line was GREAT! Wish we had a pass rush like that.

[MTK]

Indy's D was great last night. Whether they'll keep that up for the entire season is yet to be seen, but for one night they looked like a very good defense. They were flying to the ball, pressuring the QB, smacking people around, batting down balls, etc.

I wouldn't worry too much about the Saints. They've got too many weapons to limp through the entire season. I think last night it was a case of them running into the World Champs, on the road, and simply being outplayed. The Colts' D played them perfectly.

Also, I don't think people gave the Colts enough credit coming into this season, I haven't heard any so called expert mention them as a serious threat to repeat this year. Based on last night, they could very well be better this year than last year. Scary thought.

Plus, it's game 1. Still 15 to go. It's a long season, Saints fans shouldn't get too worked up over last night.

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Indy's D was great last night. Whether they'll keep that up for the entire season is yet to be seen, but for one night they looked like a very good defense. They were flying to the ball, pressuring the QB, smacking people around, batting down balls, etc.

I wouldn't worry too much about the Saints. They've got too many weapons to limp through the entire season. I think last night it was a case of them running into the World Champs, on the road, and simply being outplayed. The Colts' D played them perfectly.

Also, I don't think people gave the Colts enough credit coming into this season, I haven't heard any so called expert mention them as a serious threat to repeat this year. Based on last night, they could very well be better this year than last year. Scary thought.

Plus, it's game 1. Still 15 to go. It's a long season, Saints fans shouldn't get too worked up over last night.

The Colts have to tend with NE and San Diego with some other good teams in the mix too like Denver. The Colts were always in the discussion, but due to the fact that it's so hard to repeat, and losing some great players like McFarland to injury, it's hard to put them on that plateau again. I am not convinced just yet they are the team to win it all, but it appears they are primed for at least another shot.
I am more worried about the Saints turning back into the aints. They looked awful across the board yesterday. I do feel like you do that the Colts played them perfectly. They had an entire preseason to prepare for the Saints and the Saints opted not to try anything new.

[BleedBurgundy]

The glaring weakness for NO last year was the inability to stop the big pass play. FYI, they didn't fix it. The Colts are the one team that you cannot have any deficiencies in your pass defense if you want to beat. Saints look like they'll be a playoff team, but not a superbowl one if they don't fix that pass d.

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Bob Sanders. When he plays the Colts defense is a completely different team then when he doesnt play.