saints TE jeremy  shockey

boss did a great job against gates last week. what makes you think he wont do it again?

…but he shouldn’t be underestimated. He is a bruiser (kind of like Marshall), and has the ability for yards after contact with a defensive player.

But with Colston being out, we have a much better ability to gameplan Bush and Shockey. I don’t think the Saints beat us in a shootout, and the should try to run us over with Bush. But if we get the early lead, they have little to lose (the game).

i said tell me NOT to worry…

Except when he returns kicks…there we’re just screwed.

for one he cant run between the tackles, and he is really only a threat in the passing game. He is most dangerous as a returned. He is the 2000’s equivilent of Eric Metcalf. No more no less. He is overrated because he was on a great team @USC who had Lendale White, Steve Smith (NYG), Jarret, Leinart throwing the rock among others.

especially with that run by Sproiles. Also, Reggie Bush does well when in space so we need to make sure someone is on him to wrap him up quickly.

Also, don’t forget about Brees.

Which is something Nate and Winborn are not good at. I’d say to play some sort of zone, with Champ and Paymah (not Bly, he’s too poor of a tackler) covering the flats- where a screen is likely to occur. This would leave DJ and Winborn/Boss to cover the “deep out” zone over the top of the corners and McCree and Manuel/Lowry to cover the deep zones. The biggest problem with this is that it would leave huge holes if we tried to blitz, and Brees is a good enough QB to take advantage of those holes.

Another, simpler solution would be to Man Champ on Bush. With Colston out, the Saints receivers ae underwhelming and could be covered by Bly/Paymah/JMFW. Champ would definately be able to tackle Bush.

The lest thing I could see us doing is assigning a “zone man” (I just made that up) to the LB’s. What would happen is, if Reggie goes left, DJ gets him; If he goes right, Boss gets him; and if he tries to slip up the middle, Webster gets him.

Ultimately, the Saints will try to get him the ball as much as they can after seeing the success Darren Sproles- a similar runner- had against us, and the best way to shut him down is with good old-fashioned sure tackling.

Their linebackers will be a bit more threatening… However, even if he doesn’t play they have Jonathan Vilma, who leads the NFL in tackles.

They have so many injuries on defense right now that I imagine they are simplifying. They run a two gap line and believe in speed at LB. With so many missing pieces this week, I imagine they will run a base defense.

Vilma (at MLB) should be a threat against mid-level passes. On the other hand, they are questionable or out at several CB positions, SS, and LBs.

I thought the slick balls pos was pushing it lol… wow.

What can make him a threat though, is if he has has time to square up after a catch. He can be pretty physical if not tackled right away.

when he came back from his staph infection problem at florida he weighed in at 218 and the coaches put him at OLB for the fall practices, but he never did play there. He wasn’t really back to normal from that until halfwa through his junior year when he put up 6.5 sacks in 5 games to finish the year. It can never be underestimated how raw he has been.

If you are looking for a good player story, Bear, Moss is a great one.