DARIO AKA THE REALIST WRITES:
Lou,
The Saints are still not sacking the quarterback nearly enough for me. The Saints only have 14 sacks which is tied for 14th in the league. It is weird that we are producing so many turnovers without getting to the quarterback. It has to come back to bite us sooner or later.
Shockey had a great game.
Also, Reggie has 45 carries for 175 yards with a 3.9 yards per carry and 18 receptions for 144 yards. From a statistical standpoint, his impact is minimum but again, I believe he has to be on the field if the Saints want to continue to win consistently. Is it safe to say that Reggie won’t achieve the statistics you predicted earlier?
LOUIS AKA THE B-O-B REPORT RESPONDS:
It looks like my numbers were off on Reggie. But he still has 10 games to get 1025 yards rushing and 1136 yards receiving...LOL. But for real I based those numbers off of projecting a slight improvement over last years numbers he had before he got hurt. It is obvious that so far this year Sean Payton has been content with not forcing the amount of touches that Reggie Bush gets and the offense seems more efficient. I still believe that we will see his numbers increase in the second half of the season. The reason that I believe this is because in his most recent interview Reggie Bush referenced the fact that he is not getting a lot of touches, but he seemed to imply that it was partially due to them giving him time to come back from last years knee injury. Quote below:
"...I know what kind of player I am, and it's only a matter of time before it happens. I think it's unfortunate that I've been injured the past two season, but if you look at when I was healthy last year I was producing and making plays, so it takes times when you come back from those type of injuries. People want results now, and I get that. I want results now, too. However, it takes time when you come back from injuries like that because you have to get back to being yourself and you can't just pound it out right away because you have to give your body time to readjust to that pounding because it's not used that. I mean I want to go out and pound it out 25-30 times a game but I can't because I had such an extensive injury last year it's going to take me some time to get back to being myself."
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/arti...rb-reggie-bush
In reference to the sack numbers, I would like to see us have more sacks and we may not be producing a lot of sacks, but we are getting pressure on the QB. I don't think you can look at sack numbers and get a direct correlation with ints and turnovers. But I do think the number of int's and pass breakups can tell you a lot about what type of pressure a team gets on a QB, because pressure causes bad throws. Right now the Saints are #2 in passes defensed with 53 and tied for #1 in ints with 13. In the Giants game Eli's pick to Jabari Greer was a direct result of pressure. Eli's called back pick to Darren Sharper was also a result of pressure. Tracy Porter's pick in the last game was a result of pressure. You can also use big pass plays downfield to measure the amount of pressure the defense is getting and the Saints have pretty much all but eliminated the big downfield pass plays this year. Two of the three really long pass plays that I can think of were on slants (Calvin Johnson and Hartline). Desean Jacksons big play was a result of blown coverage by Roman Harper.
Also the score before the half was a big momentum boost.
