Saints at Ravens

[oldno82]

Like Dee said, you let a team you should beat hang around and hang around and you wind up with a loss.

A pretty pathetic way to have your home opener.

We really missed Zay and Ja'Kobi. 

And the defense failed to stiffen in the last quarter. In fact, they looked like they were gassed (conditioning?).

[tsylvester]

The penalties continue to haunt this team. Ticky tack at the goal line on the failed conversion. Even more so on the roughing call against Hendrickson.

Special teams coverage, the outside gunners and backs responsible for keeping the edge much like a defensive end/outside backer, once again failed to do so. Result, big return for them.

The killer, the one series that turned the tide? 1st and 10 from their 49 yard line after their punter screwed the pooch. 

The offense went backward, and then our punter screwed the pooch.

Total team collapse. 

[oldno82]

Baltimore's offense had one last gasp. They got into scoring range, but Jackson threw a wayward pass to an unknown target that easily landed in the hands of Saints safety Julian Blackmon to seal the Ravens' defeat. Jackson pointed to fatigue on the play, and said Rashod Bateman – the closest receiver – ran the right route.

“We were just trying to make something happen,” he said. “It was just the same group of guys out there. I feel like they were a little fatigued, and how I played it, it was a timing thing."

Fatigue>Lack of Conditioning.

[tsylvester]

On that last pass, Bateman ran a deep out because of the position of the safety. Lamar thought Bateman was going to go deeper. Lamar was wrong, it was cover 2, sit down in the red open space.

Simple misread by Lamar

[oldno82]

It was a crucial mistake.

They looked more like a Harbaugh team than what I expect a Minter team to be yesterday.

To be fair, though, key players were out and others playing hurt.

Still no excuse for the defense not closing the door.