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PREDICTION: Can Saints snap 3 Game Losing Streak vs. Giants? · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all just trying to Reached the same goal.
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  Speaker 2: We all want to win football games, and so we're
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  Speaker 2: all working towards that. I thought this was a good
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  Speaker 2: week for our guys, coaches, players. Really good week of practice.
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  Speaker 2: Kellen Moore on Friday as the Saints get ready to
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  Speaker 2: head up to New York City to take on the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: The 1-4 New Orleans Saints against the surprising 3-1-1 Giants.
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  Speaker 2: Big storyline in this game has been what the point
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  Speaker 2: spread has done. I do think with the odds makers,
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  Speaker 2: how they see it is important. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: the only thing we should pay attention to. But this
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  Speaker 2: line opened Giants 2.5. It's moved all the way to
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  Speaker 2: Saints 1.5. Vegas just isn't often wrong by four points.
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  Speaker 2: In the NFL, you don't see that dramatic of a swing.
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  Speaker 2: And what Jimmy Ott explained to us a day ago is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when oddsmakers... apply point spread value, they can
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  Speaker 2: look at a record and say the Saints at 1-4
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  Speaker 2: are undervalued because of their record, and the Giants are
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  Speaker 2: probably overvalued right now at 3-1-1, not close to as
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  Speaker 2: good as their record might suggest. The big story this
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  Speaker 2: week around the Saints, aside from obviously we know that
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  Speaker 2: Kate Nellis and Anthony Jennings are not going to play
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  Speaker 2: for the Saints. They've already been ruled out for this game.
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  Speaker 2: The big story this week was that Gail Benson went
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  Speaker 2: to the New Orleans Quarterbacks Club and made the comment
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  Speaker 2: she did where she, by name, called out Kellen Moore
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  Speaker 2: and Mickey Loomis and the leadership on the team and
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  Speaker 2: talked about how unacceptable it is where they are right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I think this is all certainly rooted in what
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  Speaker 2: happened on Domecoming, just to be so thoroughly beaten down
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  Speaker 2: and embarrassed on such a special and important day. And
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  Speaker 2: then a week later, to no show at home against
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  Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings and have literally one of the worst
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  Speaker 2: offensive performances of the last 30 years, where you're held
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  Speaker 2: under 200 yards of total offense. You're sitting here at
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  Speaker 2: one and four in a season that At the start
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  Speaker 2: of the year, I mean, you were a two-point conversion
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  Speaker 2: in overtime away from upsetting Detroit. Excuse me. And then
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  Speaker 2: you went on the road, and you did upset. baltimore
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  Speaker 2: but since then you blow a double digit second half
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  Speaker 2: lead against the raiders at home you got run out
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  Speaker 2: of your building in embarrassing fashion against your rival on
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  Speaker 2: monday night football and six days later five days later
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  Speaker 2: came back and were beaten soundly by the minnesota vikings
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  Speaker 2: and now you've got back-to-back road games before you're by
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  Speaker 2: it feels very much like a critical juncture in the
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  Speaker 2: season what did you think about gail benson's comments as
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  Speaker 2: a from an a Let me ask you two parts
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  Speaker 2: of this, actually. I wish I could have talked to
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  Speaker 2: you about this last week, but after the embarrassment on
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night Football, my point was if this team has
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  Speaker 2: any pride whatsoever, you have a major bounce back.
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  Speaker 1: They're all still pros.
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  Speaker 2: And to go lay down against Minnesota and get just
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  Speaker 2: waxed told me all I really need to know about
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  Speaker 2: the pride and character of this team. They have none.
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  Speaker 2: And I will not believe they have it until they
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  Speaker 2: show me otherwise. What do you think of that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, from a, it always starts
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  Speaker 3: at the top and it always starts at who's calling
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  Speaker 3: the shots and who's in charge. And when I say
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  Speaker 3: the top, I'm talking about ownership. It's not necessarily the
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  Speaker 3: coach or the GM. It's, it's because everybody knows that
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  Speaker 3: that's the one pulling the strings. I've been on teams,
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  Speaker 3: plenty of teams where you didn't feel like you had
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  Speaker 3: the support from the ownership. You could be the greatest
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  Speaker 3: coach on the planet, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: the buck stops there with the, with the person writing
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  Speaker 3: the checks. So the fact that that Gail Benson came
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  Speaker 3: out and said what she said I think is great.
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  Speaker 3: I think she should have done it three years ago.
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  Speaker 3: To me, this has been a long time coming. You
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  Speaker 3: just said they're all pros.
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  Speaker 2: They are.
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  Speaker 3: Mickey Loomis is a pro. Kellen Moore is a pro,
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  Speaker 3: as well as all those players. They get paid a
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  Speaker 3: lot of money. Somebody's got to hold them accountable, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm perfectly fine with them doing it out in the
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  Speaker 3: public and putting people on notice. Now, will she follow
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  Speaker 3: through with any of that? I don't know, but when
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  Speaker 3: I heard the comments, when I heard the interview, I'm like.
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  Speaker 1: It's about time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so then what about the point I made about
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  Speaker 2: getting shellacked, embarrassed by Atlanta, I expected a great effort,
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  Speaker 2: a big, big-time bet. You see it all the time
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  Speaker 2: in pro sports. Team gets embarrassed the next week, big
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  Speaker 2: bounce-back effort, and we saw the opposite.
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  Speaker 3: I think it goes to show how important depth is
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL or in professional sports. When you have
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  Speaker 3: a few guys on the defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 3: arguably your best player on the defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 3: not healthy, and you shouldn't see that big of a drop-off.
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  Speaker 3: But it was an obvious overmatch in the Atlanta game.
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  Speaker 2: The inability to stop the run the last two weeks
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  Speaker 2: has been obvious.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about this a little bit with Tyler Shuck,
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  Speaker 3: and you can kind of see it on the offensive
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  Speaker 3: side of the ball. You know, listen, man, you've got
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  Speaker 3: Chris Olave, and that's it. I mean, you really don't
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  Speaker 3: have– this is a dang NFL, man. Like, you look
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  Speaker 3: at every single team in the NFL, and they've got
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  Speaker 3: a couple difference makers out there. I mean, we're playing
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  Speaker 3: the Giants this week, and Giants kind of stink, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but you've got Malik neighbors who go, oh, crap, we
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  Speaker 3: got it. We can't let him beat us. Scataboo can
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  Speaker 3: get loose and start running over people and have a
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  Speaker 3: decent game.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't stop their run.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, like I said, I like Olave, but, you know,
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  Speaker 3: your quarterback's still got to get him the ball. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing. If Jameis Winston beats the
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  Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints and we don't see changes made pretty quick,
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  Speaker 3: then I've lost all hope from Gayle Benson that she'll
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  Speaker 3: ever make any changes.
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  Speaker 2: What changes do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the general manager has to go. To me,
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  Speaker 3: that's– and I never want to call for people's jobs,
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  Speaker 3: but that's, to me, the one– who's constructing this roster,
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  Speaker 3: who's put these guys together, who's failed, quite honestly, in
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  Speaker 3: the draft over the last however many years, not done.
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  Speaker 1: A great job in the draft.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, to me that's where the change
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  Speaker 3: has to be made.
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  Speaker 2: With respect to the game on Sunday, I think you
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  Speaker 2: just– if you're ever conflicted on a matchup, I look
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  Speaker 2: at coach quarterback venues. John Harbaugh is a better coach
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  Speaker 2: than Kellen Moore. That's an objective fact. He's won a
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. He won for 20 years at Baltimore. He's
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  Speaker 2: got the Giants at 3-1-1. You're on the road. You're
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  Speaker 2: playing at New York. And quarterback, Jameis and Tyler Shuck,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can roll your eyes and laugh. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Jameis has had issues throughout his career with turnovers, but
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  Speaker 2: it'll also– it's the Jameis experience, right? People always say.
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  Speaker 3: He's the leader of men, bro.
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  Speaker 2: The other part of it is when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage– The Giants obviously have injuries at
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  Speaker 2: both tackle spots, and the Saints are without Kelvin Banks,
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  Speaker 2: and Austin Richards is just... It's a massive drop-off there,
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  Speaker 2: and they haven't shown the ability, even on the interior,
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  Speaker 2: to protect Tyler Shuck. And the Saints right now are
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  Speaker 2: fourth from the bottom in the NFL in rushing offense
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  Speaker 2: at 81 yards a game. If you can't run the ball,
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  Speaker 2: if you cannot run the football... then you become one-dimensional.
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  Speaker 2: And now Tyler Shuck is just sitting there as they
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  Speaker 2: bring pressure. And as you mentioned, if Olave is really
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  Speaker 2: the only dynamic receiving weapon you have, then what are you? Well,
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  Speaker 2: you're an offense that puts up under 200 yards at
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  Speaker 2: home like you did last week. And the Giants can
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  Speaker 2: bring pressure. And I don't– it's the biggest disappointment for
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  Speaker 2: me this year is I bought into the Saints' offense–
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  Speaker 2: taking that big step this year with Tyler Shuck and
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  Speaker 2: it just it hasn't happened they dig they start slow
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  Speaker 2: they dig themselves a big hole when he has to
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  Speaker 2: throw to get them out of it he was able
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  Speaker 2: to do it competitively a few times but the turnovers
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  Speaker 2: have been a problem as well obviously the turnovers late
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  Speaker 2: against the Raiders cost you there last week against Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: in the second half one of them wasn't Shuck obviously
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  Speaker 2: fumbled the opening kickoff of the second half but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that If there's anything I've seen from this
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  Speaker 2: team that leads me to believe they have an advantage
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  Speaker 2: on either.
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  Speaker 1: Side of the football.
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  Speaker 2: They don't run the ball. They don't stop the run.
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  Speaker 2: And they haven't been good in special teams this year
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  Speaker 2: at all. I just mentioned they fumbled the opening kickoff
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  Speaker 2: of the second half. It's been very hot and cold
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  Speaker 2: with Daniel Carlson, who missed a PAT. I just, where's
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  Speaker 2: the thing that says that's the matchup? the Saints can
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of to win this football game.
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  Speaker 3: And Carlson sticks. But, you know, when you're talking about
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  Speaker 3: the offense, it's one-dimensional. There is no running game whatsoever
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  Speaker 3: to speak of. When this offense was actually looking pretty good,
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  Speaker 3: it's when you had a healthy back there that could produce.
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  Speaker 3: You got an aging Alvin Kamara that, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm Kellen Moore or even Kamara, I'm saying, listen,
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  Speaker 3: give me 20 touches this game. Let me see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got that type of skill set. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I get it. He's old, but Miller's not
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  Speaker 3: the answer there. You're a one-dimensional offense. These guys are
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  Speaker 3: peeling their ears back, and they're going to get it.
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  Speaker 2: If you think Alvin Kamara at this point is the answer,
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  Speaker 2: that speaks to the problem. Both of the Giants' starting
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  Speaker 2: tackles were limited on Friday. They were both officially listed
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  Speaker 2: as questionable in this football game. With Chase Young and
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  Speaker 2: Carl Granderson, that might be the advantage. If the Giants
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  Speaker 2: are without their starting tackles, who are both questionable in
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  Speaker 2: this game, then you would have an advantage there with
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to pressure Jameis, and maybe you could force
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  Speaker 2: a few turnovers. It's just, it's so hard for me
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  Speaker 2: to predict that happening. I don't think either of these
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  Speaker 2: teams are very good. I do think it's a low-scoring game.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're looking at something like You know, a
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  Speaker 2: 17-14 type game. I think Vegas had it right the
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  Speaker 2: first time. Giants are better coached there at home. The
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  Speaker 2: Saints turn the ball over and they can't run it
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  Speaker 2: or stop the run. If you just ask me, I
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  Speaker 2: think Malik Nabors and Cam Scadaboo, they create too many
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  Speaker 2: problems for the New Orleans defense, which hasn't been good enough.
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  Speaker 2: and the offense hasn't shown the ability to move the football.
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  Speaker 2: So until I see them do that, I just, it
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  Speaker 2: would be disingenuous for me to predict them to do
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  Speaker 2: it until I see them do it. So I think
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  Speaker 2: the giants, I love the under in this game. The
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  Speaker 2: total is, um, I'll look at the total here in
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  Speaker 2: a second and get it for you. But I think,
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  Speaker 2: I let me know what the total is. I would
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  Speaker 2: still take the under in this football game. It's, um,
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  Speaker 2: it's a 46 and a half. I mean, yeah, I,
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  Speaker 2: I think the under is the play in this football game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like either offense and, um, Unless you have
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  Speaker 2: turnovers that create short field opportunities. But give me the
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  Speaker 2: Giants in a low scoring game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Giants too, 24-17.