November 28, 2019
HAPPY TURKEY DAY!
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I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving Holiday. Thanks to everyone who has helped us out throughout the year (and previously).
NEW HEAD JACKET
Congratulations to Brett Beard, who was named Athletic Director/Head Football Coach at Denham Springs HS! We look forward to a long and harmonious working relationship with Coach Beard.
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THE WIZARDRY OF OS
What is going on with the teams like the Rams in the NFL and Texas in college football? How do their offenses with so much talent go in the tank like they have? I actually don’t have a clue because I don’t watch either of those teams.
There is a team I watch very closely though, and I can tell you exactly why the Saints are a playoff team, but not close to being one of the best teams at this point. And I can do it in one word.
Undisciplined. I guess the good part is the Saints are so talented, they can still lead the division this way. But the record comes despite make losing undisciplined plays. I have been watching it all year, but the Carolina game gave the most numerous and egregious examples.
The defense got a stop on third and long near the end of the first half, but a penalty on Cam Jordan lead to a 17 play drive. Fourth down pickup? Penalty. 2 point conversion? Penalty. But it is not just penalties.
PJ Williams was undisciplined with his eyes and gave up a 51 yard TD to get Carolina off the mat. The touchdown on fourth down before the half goes to the offensive player of the year in the NFL and he is completely unguarded (like the whole drive). Throughout the game, every end around and reverse worked for 10 yards or more against our defense. Yet, it seems like the Saints opponents are in the huddle every time the Saints try and use Taysom Hill.
But it doesn’t stop there. Payton’s first challenge was a waste. While I completely agree the penalty was one step below atrocious, a first quarter completion is not worth a challenge on a penalty the NFL has been reluctant to overturn. Brees’ interception was an undisciplined risk.
And all of this is anything but new this year. The Saints have to have set a record this year for illegal hands to the face. The secondary extends drive after drive for defensive holding and pass interference. The offensive line penalties are drive killers.
I disagree with many of the penalties from Sunday, but at this point the last thing I can do is blame the officials because they have a scouting report too. The Saints have done this to themselves.
Meanwhile, as the injuries continue to mount for the Saints, teams like Seattle, San Francisco, New England, and Baltimore look better each week. Especially the Niners and Ravens.
Before you hate on me for being negative on Thanksgiving week (too late probably), I have yet to get to the main message I have for this week. On this day a year ago, the Saints were playing better than anyone else in the NFL. Then, on November 29, the Saints were defeated by Dallas. That loss put the Saints in a funk that took a while to recover from and my point follows.
There is still over a month left in the NFL season and it is not too late. It is not too late for the Ravens and Niners to hit a skid. It is not too late for the Saints to snap out of it. Other than the pathetic schedule New England plays, the difference between New Orleans and New England is that the Patriots don’t hurt themselves. I believe the Saints are better than New England. Baltimore showed they are better than New England. But to beat New England, you have to beat them on your own. The Patriots will not help you by making losing plays.
Hopefully, the Saints can find a way to win in Atlanta and then take ten days to figure out a way to regain their discipline and clean up the little things.
HEY REF
If you haven’t seen the final ten seconds of the upset of upsets; Stephen F. Austin and previously unbeaten and number one Duke then take the time and watch for yourself. And after you do please help me out since I’m not either a basketball official or a basketball fan. But the first time I watched it I had to stop and think…
So, I took the time to “log-on” so I could not only watch it again and again but to be sure of what I saw. Since it’s been almost thirty years since I played the game I’m not sure or aware if the rule on double dribbling has been changed or not. As I watched the replay for the first time I thought Nathan Bain had done just that; double dribbled.
Slowing the replay down, and as I saw it, Bain doesn’t take possession of the pass without fumbling a little bit. After two steps and making an attempt at getting down court he does dribble a couple times but then grasps the ball with two hands before starting to continue his dribble before making a last tenth of a second layup in overtime to beat the Blue Demons. I’ve watched the film at least fifty times and I continue seeing it as I just described.
It doesn’t matter to me one way or the other and I’m glad to see something good come of it. The “good” has nothing to do with an upset but that donations have poured into a “Go Fund Me” account that was setup to help his family that lost just about everything when a hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas. As the story goes SFA was about to pull the plug on the account but since the upset donations have reached $80,000.00 and still climbing.
Even as this is a great thing to happen to his family after their ordeal it shows what a hypocritical society America has become. It further shows that nobody in America really cares about people’s suffering but if you play sports and win a game then we’ll help you. This whole ordeal stinks; it’s just a sad situation all around. To those individuals who can’t donate fast enough let me ask each and every one of you “Where were you before the upset”.
Wasn’t this family suffering before upsetting Duke? Didn’t the family lose everything before Nathan’s heroics? That’s enough questions because I get angrier and angrier when I think about how all of a sudden this player and his family matter to so many. As we sit down to give thanks for everything in our lives we should also give thanks to those hypocrites that somehow feel it was the right thing to do and help this family AFTER their son won a big ballgame for them.
As caring human beings we should do everything possible to ease the suffering of our fellow man no matter if they can make a layup or catch a touchdown pass as time runs out. I can only hope we as a society get our priorities straightened out and there’s truly something we can all be thankful for.
Till next week… …
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