Live Game Thread: Falcons @ Saints

by KevinE on Nov 2, 2009 7:16 PM EST in Open Threads Comment 17 comments

Looking forward to the game tonight. Saints opened at -9, and the line already moved to 11.5. Wow. That is a big shift. Over/under 56. I haven't got to watch the Falcons this year yet, so I'll be curious to see if there's anything on either side of the ball the Skins can exploit next week.

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I got way too excited when, on my way home

I heard that an NFL team had just fired their GM on the radio. I thought, perhaps, there was justice in the world and Vinny Cerrato was now unemployed. Then I remembered that the Washington Redskins do not have a GM to fire. We have an executive Vice President of Football Operations.

It has to be pretty miserable to be a Cleveland Browns fan. They have been terrible forever. But their owner has been open and responsive to their fanbase right up front. If only.

by Boo. on Nov 2, 2009 8:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Larry Wiseman made a good point on RN last week...

Redskins do have a GM. It is Vinny. You can call it anything you want, but Vinny is the Redskins GM. The Colts don’t have a “GM”…but they’re doing OK.

by KevinE on Nov 2, 2009 8:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I mean, yeah.

I had heard it on the radio as a tease and when they cut to a commercial my heart was doing somersaults and I almost had to pull over. But then I realized that they (Fox Sports, I guess; it was the MNF pregame on 106.7) probably wouldn’t have said “GM” if they were referring to Vinny.

And, BTW, just turned on the game and its a whole lot closer than I’d have expected.

by Boo. on Nov 2, 2009 9:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And can you imagine if the Skins had to go play at NO?

Geez…would prob be a 40 point lop-sided game or more.

by KevinE on Nov 2, 2009 8:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Probably

but the game wouldn’t be a blowout. We don’t get blown out.

by Boo. on Nov 2, 2009 10:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Greg Williams would have his way with us...

who’s your daddy Vinny and Danny Boy?

Let the Halo power flow...all night long!

by HALO N BRIMSTONE on Nov 2, 2009 9:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Anyone watching on here?

I have no idea how Greer let Roddy White catch that bomb.

by Boo. on Nov 2, 2009 10:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Both of those teams

look better than any team we’ve faced so far this season. And we get to play them both.

I’m predicting a 5-11 season. But 4-12 wouldn’t surprise me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvIX3S0f-2c&feature=player_embedded

by VA_Skin on Nov 3, 2009 12:46 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Sounds.....

about right! If we are going to be on the wrong side of the Mendoza line…..may as well hope for the worst so we can get a strong draft in…..unless the FO screws it up!

by shvd98z24 on Nov 3, 2009 7:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What a pleasure

to watch good offensive football. These QBs, lines, RBs etc. look great. Makes watching my Skins even harder.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

by Scott E on Nov 3, 2009 7:40 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Good offensive football or bad defensive football

I’m not saying anything about the two teams, both are better than the Redskins.
Just saying

by dr WNC on Nov 3, 2009 8:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Howsabout

Well executed offenses with 2 QBs who are looking down field for 2nd and 3rd options; RBs who don’t go down after the first touch (or run into their own linemen because the line is getting a surge and moving people around), etc. etc.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

by Scott E on Nov 3, 2009 10:09 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I love that way that sounds

by dr WNC on Nov 3, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

both of those defenses are solid

it was two of the best offenses in the game

"By far the worst performers on the team are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins

by smutsboy1 on Nov 3, 2009 10:20 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Solid Defense yes

But a top Defense? and where the performance of NO defense has people going ga-ga over the Redskins allowing Gregg Williams to leave. Gregg Williams was and is a good defensive coordinator but he would not had been any better of a head coach than Zorn.

by dr WNC on Nov 3, 2009 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think people in NO are going ga-ga

over Williams. And I would call them a top defense. Not in terms of yards and points allowed, but because— in typical Greggggg style— they attack constantly and get plenty of sacks and turnovers and have played big roles in winning games for the Saints. They can afford to be so aggressive and give up 21 a game because they know the offense is gonna score 40.

People aren’t going ga-ga over Gregg Williams leaving here in town because 1) there are so many other things to focus on with the coaching staff we do have, and 2) it’s pretty well documented that Snyder couldn’t stand Williams and there is no way it would have ever worked.

If he had been the head coach, we’d still have the same problems on offense. I would love to see what Gregg would do with Orakpo and Big Al, though.

by Boo. on Nov 3, 2009 11:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs