Sean Peyton Embodies The Modern Head Coach

McNair? McNair? Really? Guess what...quarterbacks get old. Good teams have backup plans in place. Not a revolving door of second stringers hoping one works out. Billy Volek. Kerry Collins. Chris Simms. How about bringing in someone worth a damn? McNair got old 8 years ago. What about all the seasons since then? Unless I'm mistaken, Drew Brees has been a free agent twice since then. We needed a QB. I don't remember ever hearing about us giving him a call. And Peyton DID hand pick him. He personally called Drew and said he wanted him to come to NO and help him build an offense. You can chalk up everything to getting lucky, but the players they had fulfilled the role they needed to fulfill and look at the result. I suppose Pierre Thomas, who no one had heard of prior to this year, that was luck too? And Marques Colston? The guy was a beast right out of the gate. Nooooo way thats good coaching and scouting. No way they developed those guys, and picked them because they were valuable when they were selected and fit the system. No way. It's all luck, they scratched off the proverbial lottery ticket that is the late rounds of the draft and got a couple winners. Super Bowl time. Right. Our first round pick, Britt, is our best receiver, and he's our number 3. At least they can evaluate talent and put a damn offense on the field.

And Jeff, I think it's more of a case of having confidence in the D. Is your real name TitanJeffFisher or what? 'O no, cant roll the dice, what if Peyton scores....cant give him a short field.' That's why the Colts win so much, because that's the mindset teams have toward them. The Saints said eff that, we're going to attack these clowns. You say we cant blitz? We're gonna blitz till it works. You say onside kicks are 23% effective? Well they were 100% effective last night. That's why the Saints won that game. Throw what you know about football out the window. I bet Gut was having a stroke watching that game, because the Saints said screw the stats, screw the probabilities, we're going to do what we have to do to win the game. I'm not crowning him for making an onside kick. How about the challenge, that gave them a 7 point lead instead of just 5? How about the gameplan? How about the adjustments?

They onside kicked because the D had their back. Greg Williams said Peyton went into the defensive meeting at halftime and told them, listen, were gonna go for the onside kick and try and get the momentum here. You think they would have done that if they didn't think they could stop them if it didn't work? You think they go for it on 4th and goal instead of a FG if they didn't think the defense could stop them? I don't.

 

Great post. Just one correction....Fisher is no Payton, not even close.