fin13 said:Hey don't forget when Ricky left the saints he rushed for 1800 yards and Haslett's view was that Ricky had no breakaway speed that's why he was traded.
He also had him weighting 250 lbs.
Ricky with Colliers advise dropped 20 lb,s and when on to have the best two seasons of his career.
But now they say they knew what was coming.
forget Ricky he's gone lets all move on we still have a better team than the saints.
and no first round picks for two years.
The guy is an idiot
Ricky is the only guy Haslett ever said anything negative about after leaving the team. There's a reason for that... the third round pick that ended up turning into a first rounder. Haslett had extra motivation for Ricky that year. Even on Monday Night Football that year, you hear Ricky say on National TV "As long as my stats are better than Deuce McAllister's then everything is ok."
And why do people keep saying Haslett was the one that had Ricky overweight? Ricky never showed up to voluntary workouts. He worked out on his own and put himself at that weight. Of course no one wanted to listen to this two years ago, but maybe today they will since they now see the side of Ricky we saw when he was in New Orleans. And the year Ricky had this year was the worst of his career since he was a rookie.
Ditka's trade for Ricky put a terrible franchise in the hole for years. The 2000 season by Haslett was a luck based season. More than half the team was new and many were on one year contracts. They got all the breaks that year. Since then all the breaks have gone the other way (like the lateral for the TD this year against the Jaguars, only to miss the extra point). Most of the talent on the Saints is less than 3 years of experience (Deuce, Bentley, Stallworth, Grant, and so on) so you can't expect veteran performance out of a young team. But you might see that this year.