Originally posted by vaden:
As I've said before, Carolina's D is good but highly overrated. People were misled by the Pats only scoring 20 against them. They could've easily put up 35 or 40 but Carolina's offense had a lot of long drives, holding the Pats to just 7 possessions. Pats averaged an excellent 55 yards per possession (about 17 yards more than any team has averaged this season). One of them ended in a fumble, and on the last one they drove 60 yards in 60 seconds before the game ended. Now the Saints are shredding them. They don't belong in the same conversation with our D.
we played into their hands with our offensive formations and approach. We were suppose to exploit their secondary. But no we chose to challenge their front seven, which is their best asset.
9ers and Seahawks have better defenses because of our secondaries,along with our front sevens.
CAR:NOis a lot like SF:SEA. CAR is built on its defense and a young, gifted QB. They struggle to get TDs and settle for FGs. NO has a crazy home field advantage, but is a lot more ordinary on the road. oh, and they both have short QBs.
The Saints don't scare me one bit in their place. Shoulda beat them there and our D knows how to contain Drew Brees and Brooks can read his mind. I'm hoping they get the one seed cuz I think it'll be easier to go through them esp if our offense keeps progreassing.
Originally posted by Antix:
The Saints don't scare me one bit in their place. Shoulda beat them there and our D knows how to contain Drew Brees and Brooks can read his mind. I'm hoping they get the one seed cuz I think it'll be easier to go through them esp if our offense keeps progreassing.
So many games we shouldn't have lost...
Kaep has looked like a different QB the last few weeks. They can take the Saints, all roads may lead to Seattle. Finding a way to communicate amid the noise has to be worked out.
Originally posted by TheFunkyChicken:
So, at this point we're pulling for the Saints, right?
I mean, on one hand, there's still a slim chance we could win the division, right? So we'd want the Saints to lose so that we have a chance of being the higher seed.
But on the other hand, we're most likely going to end up being a wildcard team, so we're really more concerned with having a better record than the other wild card team.
So go Saints?
I was trying to figure this out also.
Not sure it is going to matter in the end with Seattle having the head to head win.
I do know tomorrow night is big though, Go Bears!
If we get the 5th seed I'd rather Dallas and their crappy defense rather than go in Philly in that weather dealing with McCoy and their offense
I get that, but personally am more focused on making the playoffs rather than who we will face if we make it.
If Dallas loses we are one step closer to locking up the wild card spot.