From: lapeyre@oasys.dt.navy.mil (J P Lapeyre)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Saints (Carl Smith has got to go!)
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:14:59 GMT
Reply-To: lapeyre@oasys.dt.navy.mil (J P Lapeyre)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In rec.sport.football.pro, scsd1055@altair.selu.edu writes:
>        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!
stuff deleted >

>        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...

I couldn't agree more...I've taped many of the saints games and reviewed
the tapes especially the last one and agree with all the points madeior
plus would like to add another:

Often on 1st & 10, Smith will call a fly (or go) route (usu to Early)
where Herbert just chucks it up and tries to let the recv. run under
it...I've never seen them complete this pass out of ~30 times it was
tried.  I have seen it intercepted though (ala Eagles).  Does Smith
really think that this pass will stretch the zone and create room for
the running game. Come on! The defense probably laughs at this play
on tape and in the game because a) it's so predictable and b) it's got
a small chance of completion and a high chance of interception (if the
safety has studied his film). The big problem is it's a waste of a down
and now you've got 2nd & 10... and with an offense like the Saints this is
not easy to overcome...How about bringing Martin or Brenner into the
middle (intermediate) and having Early run a deep post?  The safety should
be deep (but may make a mistake) either way you've got a tree to pick
from with Heyward blocking and then releasing in the flats.   And a
deep post has a higher margin of error on the throw which, as you've
pointed out, Herbert definitely needs.


JP
















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