Remiss in my duties

It's been a hot minute since I've been able to post. Tour came up, and now the bye week, so I've finally got time to wax philosophical about the Black and Gold.

First of all - injuries. Christ - we get Colston back, and now Reggie Bush blew out his leg. "Not sure of a return date" is the general consensus. Shockey came back in, and banged himself up nicely again, saying that perhaps we wasn't really fully healed, laying some of the blame on the Saints' trainers and coaching staff that wanted him back sooner than was healthy for him.

We dropped the Minnesota game - mostly on the fault of our then-lame kicker, Martin Gramatica, the Worst Thing to Ever Come from Argentina, and Greenway's blatant 15-yard facemask on Reggie Bush that caused a fumble and led to a Minnesota touchdown which the line judge missed.

Not to be a crybaby - the Saints can find a way to lose anyway - but there's Sean Payton on the sideline, yelling at the line judge, and pointing to the jumbotron - hey asshole, if we have instant replay, why don't we use it? And Roger Goodell, why are facemasks not reviewable? This is for the safety of the players, ultimately.

Let's talk about some good things - the Saints, for once, are not playing down to shitty teams. We wasted Oakland, and we beat up all over San Diego, although they aren't even that shitty. As well, should we talk about Drew Brees and Jonathan Vilma? These guys are amazing. Brees has two NFC player of the week honors in the last three weeks. Vilma also has about a million tackles, and is a terror to all running games (well, admittedly, LT had a huge day against us, but that was the only really massive rushing day against the Saints all season). Adrian Peterson, arguably one of the best running backs around, was held to 32 yards. That's the best performance by any defense against this guy, who is a total fucking liability to everyone - even to the tune of 120 yards against the Bears, whose defense gets hated on, but let's be real - they are great, and always have been.


Here's another snapshot of Vilma just being completely fucking clutch:


Here he is, wrapping those mitts around a game-clinching INT against Philip Rivers and the very strong passing game of the Chargers, while a dejected receiver watches from the ground after being pélé'd by Roman Harper, who will apparently add injury to insult by stepping on his nuts forthwith.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it:



So now we go to Atlanta and play against those assholes and their ridiculously good running game with Michael Turner, who makes big moves like Ex-Lax. It could spell trouble. But regardless of that, our offense is ranked #1 in the NFL. That's right, #1 on total production. We are absolutely torching pretty much everyone except only the best. Expect to see a shootout of this nature - Atlanta will run all over the place, and Drew Brees will throw for over 300 yards for about the millionth time.