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Saints Face Challenges as Derek Carr Sidelined by Injury
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10/9/2024
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and I'll see you next time.
00:04
New Orleans Saints Stubbs. It's
00:06
so impressive to start the
00:07
season awakening out here like
00:09
are the Saints the best team in
00:11
the NFC let alone the NFL and
00:13
it looks like it's come
00:14
crashing down here in the
00:15
latest tweet from Mike Garofalo
00:17
sources tell me and at rap
00:18
sheet the Saints Derek Carr is
00:20
expected to miss multiple games
00:21
with an oblique oblique injury.
00:23
He suffered against the Chiefs.
00:24
Now, let me just play this out
00:26
like what was me. I know you're
00:27
not supposed to talk about you
00:28
know your own bets because
00:29
you're not supposed to talk
00:30
about it. I need a 10 more
00:32
passing yards at a Derek Carr
00:33
in that football game where
00:34
they were down in the fourth
00:35
quarter to cash me in a nice
00:36
parlay and send me off into the
00:38
night and this guy ends up
00:39
getting hurt which turns out
00:40
it's oblique. Now, he's going to
00:41
miss a couple games. The Saints
00:43
now in danger of going two and
00:45
oh and losing five straight
00:47
games. What does this mean for
00:49
the Saints for you with if
00:51
we're looking for an extended
00:52
absence from Derek Carr? Can I
00:54
put my hand up Donnie and say I
00:56
also suffer the bad beat on
00:58
I took two or seven and a half
01:00
passing yards. It wasn't good
01:01
enough for me and and look, I
01:03
guess we were sort of shocked
01:05
at the start of the season with
01:06
the Saints looking like one of
01:08
the best teams in the NFL 91
01:10
points combined with those
01:12
beatdowns over the Panthers
01:13
over the Cowboys in Dallas
01:15
there as well. But since that
01:17
haven't looked great. I thought
01:19
they showed up and they played
01:20
with a lot of heart for Monday
01:22
night football against the
01:23
Kansas City Chiefs in their
01:24
building. They came ready to
01:26
play the offense looked a
01:27
little better early there but
01:29
tailed off Derek Carr leaving
01:31
that game, you know with the
01:32
oblique he wanted to come back
01:33
but obviously cannot send him
01:35
back into that one, especially
01:37
when it was done there in the
01:38
four. So it's not a great
01:39
outlook for the Saints. They've
01:41
suddenly lost that that
01:42
momentum that spark that that
01:44
fluidity there with the offense
01:46
and if you haven't got Derek
01:47
Carr at the helm for this week
01:49
going against the Bucks possibly
01:51
against Denver the week after
01:53
it's going to be tough to see
01:54
this team turn things around and
01:56
you look at what you are banking
01:57
on the first couple of weeks
01:59
not that they were getting
02:00
lucky, but they've got those
02:01
home run hitters, you know,
02:02
Chris Alavi Rasheed Shaheed who
02:05
saw some massive bombs down
02:07
field Alvin Kamara look like it
02:09
was a K from, you know, five
02:11
six years ago, turn them back
02:12
the clock. He's still scoring
02:14
plenty of touchdowns, but a lot
02:16
has to go in favor when you're
02:18
playing that style of football
02:19
you one hand away from being,
02:21
you know, a 70 yard bomb going
02:23
into the house to another
02:24
incompletion. And I guess we've
02:26
just seen a bit of regression to
02:27
the mean and regression to what
02:29
we should truly expect for the
02:31
Saints moving forward. So I
02:32
think we're sort of taken back
02:34
in the first couple. I don't
02:35
think they're really as good as
02:37
the scorelines were telling us
02:38
and here we are two and two and
02:40
three coming into week six
02:41
against the Bucks.
02:43
It's funny like the Saints are
02:44
under 500 W but their point
02:46
differential still plus 44
02:48
because how badly they battered
02:49
their first two opponents, but
02:51
now losing three straight games
02:52
and your quarterback certainly
02:53
doesn't hold up. They now sit
02:55
at two and three in that
02:55
division the Buccaneers and the
02:57
Atlanta Falcons are above them.
02:58
And if we are looking at some
02:59
of the odds and the prices
03:01
moving forward the NFC South to
03:03
win it plus 410 number the NFC
03:05
title at 23 to 1 and a Super
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Bowl championship at 40 to 1.
03:08
Here's the tough part about the
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Saints because maybe we're
03:10
catching lightning in a bottle
03:11
after those first two games
03:13
you lose to the Philadelphia
03:14
Eagles when you probably
03:15
shouldn't have lost that game.
03:16
But now you say to yourself is
03:17
this really what the Saints are
03:19
and Derek Carr misses a couple
03:20
weeks and comes back like I'm
03:21
still not feeling Derek Carr
03:22
like he's going to come back
03:23
and be like the Savior of the
03:25
Saints. I just don't see it
03:26
that way.
03:27
No I don't. I think everything
03:29
has to be sort of lockstep for
03:31
the Saints in that offense not
03:32
to score those monster numbers
03:34
that we saw through the first
03:35
couple of weeks there. But if
03:36
you haven't got Derek Carr well
03:38
it's a lot easier to scheme
03:39
against. The deep shot is
03:41
probably going to go away. It
03:42
looks like Spencer Rattler's got
03:44
a very good chance of starting
03:45
in week since going against the
03:47
Bucs. There's a lot of question
03:48
marks behind his quarterback
03:49
play. Obviously a lot of
03:51
unknowns. If you can't get a
03:53
downfield suddenly Alvin Kamara
03:55
is not going to get as much
03:56
time trying to find a couple of
03:58
scenes and a couple of holes
03:59
and the Saints would be up
04:00
against it if they drop this
04:01
one against the Bucs. You
04:03
sitting at what two and four
04:05
you look at the division the
04:06
Falcons have only looked better
04:08
and better the last couple of
04:09
weeks. You've got Tampa Bay and
04:10
the Bucs. Mike Evans Baker
04:12
Mayfield arguably playing their
04:14
best football. So the Saints
04:16
are right up against it and they
04:17
do not have time in trying to
04:19
figure things out if they want
04:20
to stay hot in the NFC South
04:22
if they want to keep this
04:23
season alive. It is getting
04:24
late early over there in New
04:26
Orleans.
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