Roboturner913

Did not see this coming guys. You'll have better days. Good luck rest of the season.

The problem with bringing a safety down to matchup with Kamara is you're probably gonna end up with a safety trying to cover Ted Ginn deep over the hash marks and that would be bad. I think a 3 safety nickel look would probably be the best way to approach Kamara, but IDK, he's a total matchup nightmare. The other thing is, he's only going to touch the ball say 12 to 15 times, so how many resources do you want to devote to stopping this one guy? Best thing the Bills could do to stop him is make sure they got their tackling game on, because he's the kind of guy you think you have down and then he squirts out of it somehow and gets extra yards. The Saints also use all three TE's as moving blockers on outside runs, flares and screens so the more LB's and safeties you can play the better off you'll be. If you see a three TE set it will almost certainly be a play that stretches the field vertically, not a halfback dive.

Vacarro is key to being able to stop the run out of a nickel look. That will definitely hurt us. We'll have to play more 3 LB sets which is a vulnerability in coverage. If neither Armstead or Warford play I'll concede the loss. We could do without one or the other but both being out would be a disaster. Not encouraged by the questionable status on both.

Vacarro tweeted last night that he left the Jay-Z concert early because he "had to be on point tomorrow." Guessing that means he planned to practice today, and typically if you practice Friday you play on Sunday (assuming no setbacks). With Armstead, who knows, that guy is so brittle it's a miracle he ever got to the NFL in the first place. I wish we would just trade him to somebody who doesn't mind having a high-priced left tackle who only plays about 8 games a season. Assuming Armstead is out, Andrus Peat will play left tackle. He's played 3-4 games there and done well, he's no Armstead but he's a very good run blocker and his pass pro is good enough to get the job done since Brees usually gets rid of the ball pretty fast. Starting right guard Warford has been out since week 5 but he's supposed to be back this week. Starting right tackle Strief is out until at least week 14. So the line should be Peat-Kelemete-Unger-Warford-Ramczyk, or best case scenario would be Armstead-Peat-Unger-Warford-Ramczyk. If Vaccaro plays the defense is 100% intact. If not it's a pretty big blow because he's the hinge piece that allows them to disguise coverages, he goes back and forth from slot corner to linebacker in nickel coverages so there's a lot of flexibility there without having to make substitutions. So if he's out we lose the equivalent of two key players in nickel D, plus a starting high safety in base 4-3. So that would be a pretty big deal. Probably should know more by 3-4 p.m. today, I'm sure with the Bills it's the same way but Friday is usually the telltale day whether somebody is going to play on Sunday or not.

Hate to think we live in a world where one can just accuse a person of something on a message board without even the slightest hint of proof or even a rumor and people just take it at face value as truth. Like with Peyton Manning, there had been rumors on him for years and years. It's easy to find convos and details of his dalliance with a Google search or whatever. Can't find even a single thing about Brees, and New Orleans is a place where everybody knows everybody's business. Pretty sure if he really did have a kid with another woman we would've at least heard a rumor about it at some point this over the last 11 or 12 years. I don't care, I mean I don't have a moral hang up about that sort of thing. Just strikes me as pretty unfair to say something on the Internet like that unless you have at least something to back it up with.

Never heard anything about this. Drew has been with his wife since he was like a freshman or sophomore in college. I can't find any documentation or even a rumor about any other kids. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if it was true, these guys have all kinds of money and are away from home a lot so I would never be shocked that even a presumably squeaky-clean guy like Drew would have strayed a time or two. But you can't just toss around allegations like that without presenting some sort of proof/link to back it up, even if it's just hearsay. I mean, that's not cool. There's not even rumors to back it up.

What up, gentlemen, Saints fan here. I was sitting around reading all the Bills/Saints stuff I could find and remembered I had signed up for this big nice Bills board a few years ago. Couldn't find/access that one, I guess it got shut down. But this one seems pretty cool. I can't too much argue with those who'll say we haven't played many good teams during this 6 win streak. The Panthers and Lions are both pretty decent though, and we blew both of those teams out. I will say it's more about HOW they're winning games, by running the ball, playing shutdown defense and just generally controlling the line of scrimmage. Like, Drew is only on pace for like 4500 yards whereas he's usually in the area of 5000-5200....he's still about as good as he has ever been (105 passer rating) but it's no longer just throw the ball 50 times and hope to win, now we have a team that could win with a QB like Sam Bradford or Alex Smith or somebody like that. Lattimore is the real deal for sure. I find myself feeling giddy about him. Talk about lucky having him fall in our laps. The defensive turnaround is not just all about him though. They've been drafting well the last few years and got a couple solid free agents and suddenly it all just kinda came together. They got torched the first two games but have been lockdown since week 3 - I believe ranked #1, #2 or #3 in every major defensive category over the 6 game win streak. Other than Drew, Zach Strief and a couple other guys, it's a really, really young team, even a lot of the so-called "veterans" are guys that have only been around 3-4 years. SP/Loomis/Ireland pretty much tore apart the roster after the disaster that was 2014, so they've rebuilt the team in just a couple years and done a good job. I think this will be a good test for them, going into what is likely to be difficult weather conditions. Obviously defense and a running game are key ingredients for winning games like that on the road, so I feel much better about our chances going into this game than I would've at any point since 2013. I figure it will probably be a relatively low-scoring game, 20-17 or something like that. No predictions, I'll just say I wouldn't be surprised either way. He started off playing the right side exclusively but has started shadowing the other team's best WR the last 3-4 games. He totally shut down Mike Evans last week playing him pretty much exclusively in man coverage. When they play zone you'll see him on the right side of the defense. They play both man and zone pretty much equally. I think they'll probably play quite a bit more zone this week against the Bills because of Tyrod's running ability. The only thing Lattimore really doesn't do much of is covering the slot WR. He's capable of doing that but since Vaccaro is the nickel CB and excels playing the slot there's been no real reason to put him there.