relive1972
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The Saints OL was not good last year. I've watched the Saints, I have several friends who are die-hard Saints fans, we can all tell you the Saints OL was no better than the Dolphin OL last season. Ricky, just like Lamar, was constantly getting hit at or behind the LOS. How he averaged 3.9 ypc is a pretty amazing feat. And the Saints' OL was healthy! The Saints OL sucked!Originally posted by steve_t
I don't get all this talk about the NO line being bad last year. Teams were waiting in line to grab their players as free agents (Roaf, Naole, Price, etc) and sign them to decent contracts. And if it was the case of Ricky making the line look good, then why get rid of him? It just does not add up. Minus makes a good point - the loss of a good offensive line coach is anohter bad move by the Fins "brain trust."
If they were so good, then why did:
a)the Saints practically dump all of their OL from last season, and
b)why do they consider Spencer Folau an upgrade? Folau? An upgrade?
I don't get your admiration for Jimmy Johnson either. Yes, he got us some decent defensive players, but he screwed this team up otherwise. Marino had some good seasons left in him when Johnson came, and Jimmy did what he could to make sure he had a difficult time, probably hoping Dan would retire out of frustration. Firing Gary Stevens and replacing him with Kippy Brown, scaling down the playbook, then replacing it altogether with one of Kippy's, taking away Dan's audibles, trying to force his OL to run block when all they knew and were good at was pass protection, bringing in a different RG every season, swapping out RGs on every series one year, ignoring the RT position every year, never drafting any OL that could actually run and pass block, drafting poor to average RBs to help take the pressure off Dan such as KAJ, JJJ, and Avery, drafting or bringing in other idiot RBs such as Phillips and Collins, picking kneeless WRs like Yatil Green and Larry Shannon and proclaiming them to be so great, putting Dan in a game after his neck injury and leaving him in when it was obvious he wasn't ready to play-he just wanted him to look that bad. I will never have any respect for Jimmy Johnson for the way he treated Marino and Shula, the smartest thing he ever did for Miami was quit, especially after leading them to the most embarassing loss in franchise history!
:monkey: Jimmy Johnson