From: scsd1055@altair.selu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Saints (Carl Smith has got to go!)
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:48:41 -0600
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University

	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!

	-- 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!

	-- (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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