Don't worry about the secondary in this game

[MadHatter]

We give up yards....but we win the games.

That is what matters.

[catz]

We give up yards....but we win the games.

That is what matters.

MH that is a good point because our defense being a cover 2 allows as many 5-10 yd catches as possible as we play everything in front of us. Hopefully we *will* limit the YAC.

[Seamonk]

Otah and Kalil were out. I don't recall anyone on D being out, though. We have made a lot of adjustments in our dime coverage since then, though.

If we play on the old saying "The best defense is a good offense", then it hurt our defense a lot. In the first half our offense couldn't stay on the field and our defense couldn't get off the field. This led to getting tired early. We lead long time controlling drives for points and our defense will be 10x better. Count on it. Sadly that's one of the weakness of a bend but don't break strategy: Stamina. If we stop them early and our offense, namely the running game gets going early, we should have this in the bag. That's the difference between the first Saints game and the Second Saints game. The second one the Saints had more drives even though not a lot was scoring drives. It's also why Denver didn't fair well against us.

In order to win safely, our running game must be CONSTANT. and our passes must net decent yardage.