I just got back from the Superdome and here’s my honest assestment: the Saints looked great on their opening drive, and they looked fantastic defensively. Jonathan Vilma and Roman Harper were especially terrific. Jabari Greer, Tracy Porter and Malcolm Jenkins were all pretty good, too. But I get paid to be honest with you guys. Check that, I don’t get paid at all. I’m going to give you my honest opinion anyway: the Saints looked like #$%*. That’s right, they didn’t play a good game at all. They weren’t sharp offensively, and they called a very poor game. I apologize for the negativity and raining on your “we just won the Super Bowl AND our season opener” parade, but I speak the truth. Blame Sean Payton for coming out of the gates up 7-0 and abandoning the run completely in the first half. In the second half the run got them a 14-9 lead, but Garrett Hartley decided he wanted to make his best Olindo Mare during his Saints stint impression. The bottom line is that while the Saints ended up 1-0, which is thanks to the Vikings’ penalties and Brett Favre looking grossly rusty and inacurrate, the Saints didn’t play all that great. Just keeping it real. I’m as happy as anyone we’re 1-0, but it was really ugly. There’s really not that much to be proud of. The offensive play calling was bad, the execution was mediocre, and the field goal kicking was an atrocity. Getting rewarded for a win was divine intervention if you ask me. We were fortunate enough to play a football team that looked lost offensively. At times, I wasn’t sure if that was Brett Favre or Otto Graham’s corpse. We’ll take it, of course, a win is a win. Shockingly the defense was fantastic. The offense was bad. Lots of work to do with the 9ers game coming up @ San Fran next Monday night. The player grades will come soon.
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