“So, Roger, what are the words to ‘My Generation’? I can’t remember.”

signed, Terry

They played a helluva game.

And I thought Payton was a really good OC, hence why he got a head coaching job.

1) The 3-4 didn’t really suite both of those players. Players go to other teams and win Super Bowls all the time. It wasn’t like the linebackers were the reason that the Saints won.

2) Dallas’s offensive line got exposed by a superior defensive line. It’s not like it was a big suprise, maybe a big suprise that they got dominated but Dallas’s offensive line has had problems against big defensive tackles. And EVEN if that 07 squad gets past the Giants, I think they would have got destroyed AGAIN against a Patriots team because their defense was regularly giving up 30 points to good offenses.

3)What was Jerry Jones supposed to do about Sean Peyton? Fire Bill Parcells and promote Peyton right away?

The Saints just played awesome, coached to win, and are a deserving Super Bowl Champion.

Should they be hoisting the trophy? No, because the Saints and Colts were the best two teams this year despite our victory in week 14.

And the Rivers ‘experiment’ seems to be going pretty well to me. Cant really say that he is holding SD back.

Dallas has been exposed in their last two playoff losses(and to a huge extent, the 44-6 loss) as a team with a slow and old offensive line that can be exposed and beat, and that when you pressure Tony, like any other quarterback, he is less effective. That and we have a CLASSIC “bend but don’t break” defense which will win you a boat load of games, but it IS beatable, especially when you have a weak secondary, which Dallas has had in all three of those losses, though it is is getting better. Meanwhile, if Dallas gets by the Giants in 07, I’m not too sure they beat the Packers and Patriots both to end the season. They probably beat Brett again, but New England simply matches up better with the Cowboys defense then they did against the Giants. And this year, I really do not know if we beat the Saints in the dome again(look how we struggled on the road this year from top to bottom….we were 8-1 at home this year), and if we do, do you think that Tony has the type of game that Brees HAD to have to win the game? Or that Wade/Garrett has the guts to make the playcalls that Williams and Payton made? I don’t think that would be the case

Fujita was a decent to good player with the Chiefs before we got him, and he has been good for the Saints. Like the post above mentioned, both these guys are classic 4-3 linebackers, not 3-4 ones. And don’t kid yourself, ask Saints fans, they could use an upgrade in BOTH positions.

I blame Parcells for this one, for sticking around in a year where he clearly didn’t want to be here. I think more needs to be made into the relationship between both Parcells and Jones, and like Jerry upset Jimmy when he got involved with his draft, I am sure that Bill was mad when Jerry did the same, especially knowing how Bill likes to, as he says, “shop for the groceries”. And the whole decision to bring in Owens, when Bill obviously wanted nothing to do with him, nor did his staff(Haley, etc.). If Parcells retires again, or hangs it up when he should have, Payton would have been the head coach here and there is no doubt in my mind that Romo would be putting up Brees like numbers.

And I still think the Chargers made the right move. Brees, when Rivers was drafted, was simply an average quarterback, and when they let him go, he was looking at major surgery on his shoulder, which was a huge question mark. And it was not like Rivers has really been bad for the Chargers, has he? He has made the transition for them from a dominate running team with Martyball and Tomlinson to a premier passing team with Norv and Rivers.

Dallas will get theirs, don’t worry. We have the talent, we just need to fix up the massive holes on this team which has been plaguing the team for years(offensive line depth and youth and secondary issues), and we will get there.

I counted maybe 4 deep passes all game.

In the traditional sense, but it seems like now everybody is elite. Some commentator today claimed that Garcon had become an elite NFL WR. Give me a break.

Is naturally probably the 15th-ish best receiver in the league. Playing with Manning, though, gives him numbers to indicate he’s top 5.

That’s what I yelled from my living room!