Know Your Foe: New Orleans Saints vs. Green Bay Packers Preview

[@geoffhoutman1557]

How bad is this going to be for us?

[@adonisgilbert7796]

That’s gonna depend on our offense

[@Erik_Ice_Fang]

If you think your team is worse than the Dolphins and injured 49ers, REALLY BAD

[@Bandit9539]

We ain’t winning this one boys 😂

[@Maddengoon8888]

A stanking situation my saints lose 29-16 top7 pic in nfl draft

[@ronniesen2522]

GB 34 NO 13

[@williyong2966]

Rattler in another bad situation 😅 but he just gotta do him

[@sweeabn6736]

So use to the Saints being in it until the end. This year they are not and I just don’t care.

[@michaelcdarby]

We haven’t been in it until the end since Sean Payton left

[@sweeabn6736]

@ what I mean is having a chance to go to the playoffs at the end. Hasn’t worked but now they are out before the end of the season

[@geoffhoutman1557]

Not mathematically eliminated but we have been sub 1% chance for a few weeks now I’ve been a Saints fan for so long I started doing mock drafts after week 4 😬

[@IamSavoiiMusic]

People keep misconstruing the progression of the Packers season this year. That includes this guy who is even from Wisconsin, covering the Packers. Yes you can say that all teams and specifically maybe younger teams get better as the season goes along. And yes we saw that last year with the Packers, where they started to get on a hot streak as the season went along and then definitely as we hit the playoffs. But what has really happened this year specifically, is that Jordan Loves turnovers started out too high. He didn't seem to have the same accuracy he had for most of the year last year and he seemed to be making more erratic, poor decisions. Now we also didn't have Josh Jacobs last year. So there was a distinct change in philosophy that we saw transition over the course of the year in Green Bay this year. And that was a shift from the head of the snake being Jordan Love to the head of the snake being Josh Jacobs. That transition was prompted by Loves high turnovers. This transition also includes utilizing our playmakers. Instead of relying on Jordan to get the ball down the field those 10-15 yards through the air, he's throwing it 5 yards(ish) to Reed, Wicks, Doubs or Kraft and letting those playmakers produce the yards with their feet. This is all by design. Credit coach Lafleur and the playmakers. Actually Josh Jacobs is also a recipient of short passes and then making plays after the catch as well. The games in the beginning of the season, look a lot different than the games that they just played recently. Jordan Love is a lot more restricted and has shorter more designed plays. He's off schedule less and has easier pass plays for him to complete. I don't believe that Jordan Love likes this approach. I think he wants to be that gunslinger. At the same time I do believe he's humble enough to realize the makeup of the team, how good Josh Jacobs is and how effective the strategy is towards winning. He respects LaFleur and does what he needs to do to win. Ultimately, even last week we saw this, Jordan Loves accuracy is just questionable. Although his decision making process has been cleaned up quite a bit. So, he still needs to improve. The Jordan Love bad decision making has been cleared up by even better coaching. If there's any weakness on the Packers right now, honestly, it's Jordan Loves accuracy and/or consistency. So he is kind of in training mode right now if you will. He has his opportunities in between the majority of designed short passes or designed run plays. And when he has those opportunities for longer balls, maybe something pops up off schedule, he has to show that he can drop those dimes. Even as recent as last week, he really did not do that by and large. He just didn't look fantastic, at all. He had two DPIs called on his long passes that were short, where the receiver actually had to come back to the ball. Credit the wide receiver in those situations for triggering the DPI. He severely missed a wide open Doubs that probably would have been another TD. The Doubs TD in the back of the end zone was a high arching, low velocity, not a great looking pass that was made up for by a fantastic catch by Doubs. With that said, he is a fantastic game manager and can get the job done, and is making better decisions, etc. but as far as being that elite passer with the ability to really drop in those technical, highly accurate passes, like we saw more often than not at the end of the year last year? We are not seeing those this year. I think he's adjusting to this new approach That has been transitioning across the year, coming to grips with it, and hes going to figure out a way to maximize it, if you will. He still is yet to prove real consistently that he can take advantage of each opportunity Lafleur gives him to throw a longer ball and have it be a real precise, elite type of pass. He just may do that come the end of this season and into the playoffs. Or he might remain kind of wishy-washy with the head of the snake, Josh Jacobs, just pounding his way through, with Jordan Love as more of a support role, who triggers playmakers via short pass plays, in that approach where he sort of 'gets by' without consistent, high level passes. And that recipe may still work in the playoffs. However, if his long ball skills fine tune themselves here at the end of the season or in the playoffs, we will just be that much better.

[@DylanNosotti]

jordan love is an elite passer period you say you cover the packers but it doesnt sound like youve watched the games

[@Blackbeautymagnum]

Ten Paragraphs of Tom foolery

[@DepresseDABZ]

@@Blackbeautymagnum saints fan that lives in WI. Dude is over here grasping at straws😭💯

[@venom18s]

Your bit about shorter passes falls apart when you realize Love has one of the highest Average Depth of Target in the league. AKA he throws it further than almost anyone per attempt. Since the bye he is 5th in the league at 9.1 air yards per attempt