Davidson Deac II

Their run defense last year was decent. 10th in the league in yards allowed per carry, and they were in the top half of the league in fewest yards allowed rushing. Not the 85 bears, but compared to the rest of the team, it was solid. In truth, their defense played fairly well today. But the offense doomed them with four interceptions.

Against some teams, it might be a strategy. I can't imagine it was the strategy against the Aint's. Their kick returner is pretty good.

Fwiw, I certainly wouldn't judge him based on today. Even CMC struggled to run the ball well today, averaging around 3 yards per carry. With a few exceptions, Saints shut the run game down. Fortunately, the passing game and our own defensive play rendered their effort meaningless.

Agreed, but I have learned to ignore the nattering nabobs of negativity. If you don't ignore them, they can take all the joy out of winning.

Saints have a very good run defense and we didn't manage much against it today. Passing attack was a little more effective in the first half. Second half was rough for a while, as the Saints started getting to Sam, but our offense made some plays in the 4th qtr. The Oline is not that good right now, but it could get better if the rookies improve. Fortunately, we are finding ways to work around it in the passing game.

Rough day for rookie QBs

It feels good. Doing it against the Aints makes it that much better.

That should be ball game. It feels great to beat the Aints. Dominant defensive game. Offense played a great half of football. Special teams, well they weren't special, but the d was so good it didn't matter.

At this point, I would be tempted to give up a second round pick to get Gano back.

Terrible call on the roughing the passer, but I will take it. I don't think we are going to do anything with it, but hope I am wrong.

Our run pass ratio this half is about two passes to every run. The problem is that our passing game has been crap this half.

Its probably a incomplete pass. Only question is, is it enough to overturn the ruling on the field. Regardless we need a drive and points.

Nice punt and coverage. Now we need to shut them down and get the ball back.

Our offense now reminds me a lot of the offense under Rod Chudzinski. Sometimes looks good in the first half, but tends to disappear as the game goes along.

DJ probably should have had that, but it was a difficult catch. Punt time.

Shutouts are difficult even with great defenses. They are impossible when the offense makes mistakes or doesn't move the ball.

We need to score more points. Can't trust the kicking team, so it needs to go in the end zone.

Well that was a horrible decision.

None of our running backs can make 3rd or 4th and short. That is a lot on the oline. But we can't just stop doing it, just need to mix it up a lot more.

I guess we see why we punted last week.

In fairness, Sam has had time and Jameis hasn't. Surprising I know.

Punt returner just earned his pay this week.

Wow, great one on one tackle by Jackson, and on Kamara.

They are already in fg range. Need a sack. Edited to add, or better yet, an int.

If I were the Aints, I would take the run off instead of the timeout. But good for us either way.