Quick Look Back at Our Season Finale

[KendrickPanther]

Many of us have been dissapointed with the lack of additions this offseason. Some have even brought up the disaster vs. the Saints* in week 17. I thought it would be interesting to compare that lineup with our current one.

Starters:

DE: Antwan Applewhite

DE: Greg Hardy

DT: Ogemdi Nwagbuo

DT: Frank Kearse

LB: James Anderson

LB: Jordan Senn

LB: Dan Connor

CB: Chris Gamble

CB: Darius Butler

S: Charles Godfrey

S: Sherrod Martin

Also recording defensive stats:

Brandon Hogan

Thomas Keiser

Jonathan Nelson

Demario Pressley

Eric Norwood

RJ Stanford

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201201010nor.htm

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So what jumps out at me is 5 of the 11 defensive starters in that game have no shot at starting this year (barring injuries). Sherrod Martin is a 6th guy that could lose his job before the season starts.

As much as we put down Captain, he didn't play in our most embarassing defensive game of the season. So when I compare that lineup to what we have now I can't help but be optomistic.

[Riverboat Ron]

The critical name missing from that game was Charles Johnson. When I heard Johnson wasn't suiting up for the game I knew we didn't stand a chance in Hell. Given, the Saints** play like sh*t when they're not in a dome, but it was night and day when comparing the defensive effort from the first game at home vs. the last game in New Orleans.

[Leeroy Jenkins PhD]

Every player listed looks like a quality back-up player

[CARuthless]

I thought our worst game was against the Titans. All I remember is Cam throwing a pick on a screen pass and us unable to score a single TD....embarrassing

[fieryprophet]

I thought our worst game was against the Titans. All I remember is Cam throwing a pick on a screen pass and us unable to score a single TD....embarrassing

Cam's only pick that day came off of Naanee's hands downfield.

[KendrickPanther]

I thought our worst game was against the Titans. All I remember is Cam throwing a pick on a screen pass and us unable to score a single TD....embarrassing

I'm specifically looking at the defense here. We lost to the Titans by 27 and lost to the Saints* by 28 but the Saints* game we gave up over 600 yards of offense. The Titans we gave up 383 which isn't good but not nearly as bad.

[SIGCHI222]

I love thinking about that asswhipping and how sweet this year is going to be. Beason said he would not forget what they did.

Grudge match.

CAN"T WAIT!!

[Argus Plexus]

Cam was injured in the TEN game if you'll recall.

[frash.exe]

I'm specifically looking at the defense here. We lost to the Titans by 27 and lost to the Saints*** by 28 but the Saints*** game we gave up over 600 yards of offense. The Titans we gave up 383 which isn't good but not nearly as bad.

giving up nearly 400 yards to a titans offense is pretty god damned bad

[Kuech the Sneak]

I thought our worst game was against the Titans. All I remember is Cam throwing a pick on a screen pass and us unable to score a single TD....embarrassing

He threw a pick on a screen on our last chance against Atlanta in the Georgia dome

[KendrickPanther]

giving up nearly 400 yards to a titans offense is pretty god damned bad

It's not good but not terrible. They averaged 335 a game so we spotted them 50.

[Growl]

At least we did Chris Johnson a solid and single handedly turned his season around though.

[jarhead]

I thought our worst game was against the Titans. All I remember is Cam throwing a pick on a screen pass and us unable to score a single TD....embarrassing

I think it was our worst. They double teamed Smitty.

[rayzor]

there were only 5 actual starters on that list. if martin loses his job then only 4 starters will have been on that starting lineup.

there was no way that game could have ended well.