Saints-Cowboys First Look | Can New Orleans Win Over Dallas After Last Weekend's Performance?

hey it's hunt you found hunt on Saints we're talking black and gold football do us a favor hit the like button share your comments below and hit that subscription button so you can get all of our content enjoy Dennis Allen met with reporters yesterday had a chance to watch the film and then re REM meet with the reporters and kind of talk about some of the things that he saw and the first thing that he wanted to talk about was the offensive line and their performance it was obviously a huge question mark it was why I didn't love the Saints in this game picked him to win but in a very very tight game and the offensive line was pretty good by my eye watch it on TV on Fox I don't see what Dennis Allen thought I thought those guys played well I mean you know you got to look at everything in the totality of what you know we were able to do and and and I said this I think after the game when you run the ball like that when you're able to be effective throwing the ball and your and your quarterback doesn't get hit much and you put points up on the board like that you can't do that and have your offensive line not play well and so and yet we'll have a a much stiffer test this weekend whenever I hear Dennis Allen say and yet it sounds exactly like Shawn pyton it's one of those deals that you pick things up from folks you spend a lot of time around and it just feels like that's what it sounds like but that's inconsequential to the actual answer there which was actually true um that you can't do anything without your offensive line if your offensive line can't play then you can't play if you can't run block and you can't pass block then you can't move the ball on the ground you're going to get crushed and you're going to get your quarterback hurt and that was obviously the biggest concern for the the Saints and I think that in terms of what the Saints did on the scoreboard just absolutely annihilating the Panthers like that is that's an indictment on the Panthers organization and team as a whole but I do think if you just break it down to offensive line defensive line the Panthers have real proven dudes on the defensive line and the Saints held them at Bay so I'm not going to give the Saints a ton of credit for forcing Bryce young into turnovers because I think he stinks and I'm not going to give the Saints just massive amounts of kudos for blowing out the Panthers that's a great performance I'm not trying to take completely away from it what I'm trying to do is yeah you're going to beat the Panthers because they're bad but the Panthers defensive line is not that bad and the Saints blocking them up front I think that was the most encouraging thing that I saw uh in the game on on Sunday T Fango was obviously a big part of that at left tackle and Dennis Allen spoke about the Saints top pick I thought his first regular season game was was pretty good and there's still there were still too many negative plays that we've got to we've got to get corrected and I think we will you know I think the key for us is you know that race to improve from week one to to week two and it has to be in in in all areas and so I think that's what our focus is going to be I think faga right now feels like a hit at draft as a draft pick it feels like that it's early um and you can't make too many sweeping generalizations but he looks the part um there was a question whether or not he could move over and play on the left side it's not perfect you wouldn't expect it to be perfect but like you could tell last year and that was even in year two when Trevor Penning lined up across from Arden key and those guys from Tennessee in the opener it was pretty evident pretty early you're like okay this is not great um so that was that was not the case with fuaga on Sunday there were a couple of bad rep but there were a lot of really really good reps and that's what you're looking for and I think he's going to continue to improve and be a really good piece for the Saints moving forward at that left tackle spot um this was a cool quote from from Dennis Allen and it was it's it piggybacks on top of Alvin cra's availability with the media after the game and Ross Jackson Louisiana sports.net wrote a great piece uh about Alvin chra and and his playing in the game on Sunday amid this contract situation that he would really admittedly like to get resolved but showed up to practice he showed up to Camp he showed up for the game and he played very well and Dennis Allen appreciates that from a veteran who we understand is in a contract negotiation look Alvin's been outstanding he showed up came to work every day he's been real Pro about handling his business and look we know that contracts are part of you know what we deal with in in in the NFL and I think he's kind of put that to the side and just focused on the things that he can control and that's how he goes out and plays the game look here's the deal there is a disconnect a natural disconnect in the way that fans view Sports and the players view Sports because the fan just wants to win and while most of the players really want to win there's a financial component to it that the fans don't really care about okay it doesn't matter to Joe Saints fan if Alvin chra plays on an $8 million deal or a $4 million deal and I could walk up and down the ramps of the Superdome to the most DieHard fans on that team and most of them could not tell you how much money Tyron Matthew's making in guaranteed cash this year they could not tell you what Demario Davis's cap hit is this year they just that that is a disconnect and we as fans want the players to just want to play they we just we want them to just want to put on our uniform and go win but we understand that there is a financial component to it that is foreign to us as fans I heard pton Manning last night berating Brandon iuk because he missed all a camp and then he drops a touchdown pass in the end zone and pton goes can we get our contract done get into Camp get the Reps and make these plays and that sounds great but you're talking about millions of dollars millions of dollars my negotiation for what I uh am compensated for it guarantee here didn't take very long they tossed a number out there and said all right let's go and then we started doing radio shows that's cuz there's just it's a pretty insignificant amount of money in the grand scheme of things the only time I've ever been in an actual negotiation that involved real dollars was selling a house and uh my house was not worth a hundred million like some of these NFL players are negotiating so I can't even speak to the the gravity of these negotiations but I will say this Alvin deserves a ton of credit for understanding he wants one more Payday for listening to his agent and making it known that he wants to get that done and then taking the Saints feedback where the Saints to their credit in my opinion are not in a rush to pay a 30 plus year old running back Big Time dollars after two down Seasons that's not something I'm running to the table to cut that check for and chra got that feedback understood it and said okay I'm going to practice I'm going to play and hopefully we get this done later he doesn't have to do that he could pout he could moan he could hold out he could sit out he could not play he could not answer questions from the media he could do all those things which happens across the league all the time and Alvin chra to his credit left one mini camp practice a day early to make a statement showed up at training camp worked out was ready to go in shapee ready to play in the game goes over 100 yards for the 50th time in his career Gets In The End Zone wins the game and goes to the postgame microphone and goes yeah I love this city I want to play I want to play I want to win and I want a new contract but we'll get there that is very very admirable and in this disconnect that we live in with professional athletes and fans that one swings toward the fans side because Alvin chra is not happy with the business side of things but he's putting it aside and going out there to play I think that's very very cool of him and if you're a Saints fan you should definitely appreciate that as I'm sure most most if not every single one of them absolutely appreciate Alvin CA really from the second he showed up in New Orleans he's been nothing but fantastic last piece here before we get to Glenn West um Glenn Allen talked about the Cowboys and some of the problems that they can present New Orleans coming up this weekend we're just now getting into you know starting to look at that and yet that doesn't shock me you know I think they got a lot of talented players over there on defense and I think Mike Zimmer is one of the better defensive Minds in our in our league and so they'll definitely be a challenge for us to have to deal with really in all three phases they're going to be well coached and and they got talented players over there so this will be a great test for us it's a week toe League we know that I don't think the Bengals are going to cancel the season because New England came in there and won and and I don't think the Saints are destined for 16 and one and I don't think if the Saints go out there and lose by 10 points on the road 14 points on the road 17 points on the road it means they're complete frauds um I think it's a week- toe deal I do think we get a little bit better barometer of where the Saints are going on the road to play Dallas as opposed to a home game against Carolina I could pretty pretty easily and compellingly make the case the Saints most winnable game is in the rearview mirror they get credit they win the game but I think if they go beat Dallas you got to take things pretty serious if they go lose to Dallas in a close game I think that's fairly encouraging they go get dusted I don't think you just pack it up and say they stink but I think you do get more information this coming week going to play a team that really played well in week one that's got a quarterback that's now in a little bit better mood I think and a wide receiver that's in a little bit better mood and uh yeah they're good and they're going to give I think more trouble to the Saints in Carolina basically every level of both sides of the ball but it's going to be an interesting thing to watch and I'm I'm I'm more interested in the Saints today than I was on Friday I'll say that that was eye opening on Sunday and I'm encouraged I want to talk about the Saints doing great things trust me my heart rate doesn't do the same thing when I watch the Saints game as it does when I watch an LSU game that's well documented but I want to see him win it's more interesting to talk about here more fun in south Louisiana let's see what they can do on Sunday hey it's on thanks for watching hunt on Saints before you leave help us out a little bit hit that like button leave your comments in the section 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