PLAYOFFS-Saints Vs Cardinals Saturday @ 3:30

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It'll be a tricky game for Gregg Williams. Much like Brees, Warner gets rid of the ball very quickly, so blitzing will be tough. On the other hand, if you drop back and cover, he can pick you apart. I think this will be much like yesterday's game where 1 or 2 defensive stops the entire game may make the difference.

Assuming, of course the Saints offense of the first half of the season shows up. I betting with everybody healthy, it will (that means YOU, Shockey).

 

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Defense is the key to this game. Both teams can put points up, but whoever makes those impact defensive plays will win this game.
Hopefully thats the WhoDats.

 

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I think it's going to be a shootout as well. An advantage we have is all of our banged up defense has been resting & getting healthy. Meanwhile the Cards are in the process of getting banged up. Other than Bolden all of their important injuries are on defense. The way Early has been playing for about 7 weeks now I don't think they miss Bolden all that much. The key to stopping them is to some how get to Warner. He is slightly less mobile than a fence post so if we can at least get him to move around he sometimes throws picks. If he can set up clean & gets in a rythm......watch out!

 

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:grin:

 

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Whats the over on this game 150? This was the one match up i thought that would really hurt the Saints. They must pressure Warner. If that guy is on, fahgetaboutit!!!

 

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I actually think this is the best match up possible (except had the Eagles won). I was surprised at how bad GB's defense played yesterday-I was afraid they would've given the Saints some problems.

Maybe that should make me more worried that the Cards were able to move on them so easily, but I still feel pretty good about this game.

 

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I agree, and he cried foul throughout a good part of the game.

 

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This is so true. I've seen posts where fans were hoping he has an off day. Don't bet the rent money on it. He is kind of like a machine. But if you hit/pressure that machine it starts to kind of fall apart. He also has a bad habit of how he holds the ball when scanning down field. Breese, like a lot of other good NFL QB's, holds it with 2 hands. Warner often does not. The coaches have worked with him on this but under heat he forgets a lot of times. The result is if you nail him blind side he usually fumbles.
Their defense is somewhat like ours which is not all that great but they went on the roll in the playoffs last year by all of a sudden getting aggressive and getting LOTS of turnovers, about 3 per game if I remember. Notice they did this against GB. When we were rolling and killing people we were doing the same thing. Lately we haven't been getting the turnovers and everything has suffered. Neither team has a Steelers/Ravens type of defense so turnovers are critical to both teams.
Incidentally their offense is a lot like ours as well but we have better/faster receivers. If it's truly a back & forth shootout we probably win. We have more dangerous weapons.