From: gaf5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Gail A. Fullman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Saints (Carl Smith has got to go!)
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:10:47 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1993Jan4.204841.1288@altair.selu.edu>, scsd1055@altair.selu.edu writ
es:
>
>       Gee.  How do you begin to describe this one?  I guess
>Fred Barnett said it best, "we didn't give up, although it looked like
>the Saints gave up."  Oh how true!
>
>-- SAINTS observations for 1992:
>
>       Throughout this football season I have tried to resist the
>temptation of critisizing the Saints staff, especially Carl Smith,
>NO offensive coordinator, for poor offensive play in critical games, but
>I too (like the Saints Offense) have caved in to reality.
>
>                       GET RID OF CARL!
>
>       Saints fans... I ask you to look back at the last three Saints
>losses (San Fran, Bills, and the Eagles) this season and tell me what you
>see in common?
>
>       1) Total offensive collapse in the second half of all three games
>
>       2) Bizarre offensive play calling during the second half
>
>       3) Production of productive offensive players in the first half
>          verses their production in the second half.
>           [Let me clarify.  When certain players become productive (Heyward)
>            it seems that their involvement in the overall game plan
>            diminishes!]
>
>       Now who has control over these three?  The offensive coordinator.
>
>On point #1:
>       The offensive coordinator is responsible for either making
>an adjustment in overall scheme of play, or not making an adjustment, if
>the scheme is not working.  In all three cases the Saints did well in their
>initial observations of all three teams (9ers, Bills, and Eagles)...as first
>half scores indicated.  But, when it came time for Carl Smith to make offensive
>adjustments to counter the possible adjustments by these teams in the second
>halfs of each of these games Carl blew it!
>
>On point #2:
>       In the beginning of the season Carl was blamed for being too
>conservative.  Well, there I have to agree.  But as the season went on it
>seemed that Carl Smith's play calling became a little less conservative
>and a little too UNconservative.   Unconservative to the point of being
>BIZARRE.
>       -- 3rd and less than 2 yards to go....throw a deep bomb!
>       WRONG! Herbert is not an ACCURATE deep passer   Accurate short?
>       YES  Accurate long?  NO, NO, NO!
>
>       -- 3rd and less than 2 yards to go....run Vaughn Dunbar over the
>       middle!  WRONG! Why use a pee shooter when you've got the cannon?
>       I'm talking about CRAIG 'THE IRONHEAD' HEYWARD, 285 pounds of
>       big fucking load!
Like the way he just lumbared over Seth Joyner into the end zone.
                                                                 >
>       -- 3rd and less than 1 yard to go...run VD (that's Vaughn Dunbar not
>       venereal disease) right at BIG REGGIE WHITE!  WRONG!  Run the other
>       damn way!  Is this some type of ego trip for Carl Smith?  If we
>       run over Reggie White and get a first Carl's not smart...just lucky!
>
No one in their right mind runs at Reggie White.
>       -- (this one goes back two years)  4th and inches to go....run
>       Dalton Hilliard right at William 'THE REFRIDGERATOR' Perry!  WRONG!
>        Hey, he didn't get that nickname 'The Refridgerator' just because
>       he's a big fat slob...someone should have reminded Carl that Perry
>       outweighed Saints center, Joel Hilgenberg, by some 60-70 pounds before
>       he decided to send Hilliard right up the middle for a loss of two.
>
>       -- ad infinitum...ad nauseam...
>
>On Point #3:
>       In certain games where offensive players have been productive these
>same players seem to find themselves out of the second half game plan for
>the Saints!
>       In the games against Buffalo and the Eagles, Ironhead ran through,
>around, and over people while running, and catching screens in the first
>halves...where was he in the second halves of these games?
>       Vaughn Dunbar ran well in the game against Los Angeles (second game).
>He ran for 81 yards in the first half, and finished with a grand total of 85
>yards for the day....how the shit is this young man going to develop into the
>Saints running back of the future if the Carl Smith doesn't allow Dunbar to
>taste success in the form of 100 yard games!
>
>
>       Oh well, I've bored everyone long enough with my armchair
>quaterbacking.  Does anyone else agree or disagree with me on these points?
>I'd like to know.
>
>Bill Plunkett
>- Geaux Saints - NEXT YEAR! -battle cry of Saints fans.
>- Oh, Thank God I'm not an Oilers fan...sheesh I thought the Saints were the
>only ones capable engineering that type of loss....and thanks for knocking the
>Saints out of the record books for the biggest comeback.
>
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