Sean Payton's contract extension is great news. The Saints are the most exciting team in football and he is totally responsible for that. Time to get Drew locked up, too.
Thursday's Gameplan:
Defensively, my guess is the Saints will play a similar game against the Pack that they used against the Colts in the Super Bowl. They'll primarily concern themselves with the Packers passing game. Payton is rumored to have said to Gregg Williams that he doesn't care if the Colts get a hundred yards rushing and Williams responded that he didn't care if they got two hundred. The Colts are not a running team. Neither are the Packers. I think the Saints have a better secondary now than they did then. Patrick Robinson will be a better nickel back than Malcolm Jenkins was and Jenkins is a better, much more athletic free safety than Darren Sharper was. The capability is there to do a better job of it against the Pack then they did against the Colts. They'll have Jenkins over the top to help with Greg Jennings and Jermichael Finley. I think the rest of the Saints secondary can man up against Pack receivers. The front seven will deal with the running game.
Offensively, I expect the Saints to throw the ball early against the Pack's base defense and just mix in a few runs. Later, when the Packers start getting creative with their defenses, is when I think we'll see a steady diet of Mark Ingram and the ground game. I like everything about the Saints receivers and tight end Jimmy Graham matching up against the Packer secondary. That's where the game will be won.
3 days until Saints v Packers
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