Saints Face Challenges as Derek Carr Sidelined by Injury

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00:00and I'll see you next time.

00:04New Orleans Saints Stubbs. It's

00:06so impressive to start the

00:07season awakening out here like

00:09are the Saints the best team in

00:11the NFC let alone the NFL and

00:13it looks like it's come

00:14crashing down here in the

00:15latest tweet from Mike Garofalo

00:17sources tell me and at rap

00:18sheet the Saints Derek Carr is

00:20expected to miss multiple games

00:21with an oblique oblique injury.

00:23He suffered against the Chiefs.

00:24Now, let me just play this out

00:26like what was me. I know you're

00:27not supposed to talk about you

00:28know your own bets because

00:29you're not supposed to talk

00:30about it. I need a 10 more

00:32passing yards at a Derek Carr

00:33in that football game where

00:34they were down in the fourth

00:35quarter to cash me in a nice

00:36parlay and send me off into the

00:38night and this guy ends up

00:39getting hurt which turns out

00:40it's oblique. Now, he's going to

00:41miss a couple games. The Saints

00:43now in danger of going two and

00:45oh and losing five straight

00:47games. What does this mean for

00:49the Saints for you with if

00:51we're looking for an extended

00:52absence from Derek Carr? Can I

00:54put my hand up Donnie and say I

00:56also suffer the bad beat on

00:58I took two or seven and a half

01:00passing yards. It wasn't good

01:01enough for me and and look, I

01:03guess we were sort of shocked

01:05at the start of the season with

01:06the Saints looking like one of

01:08the best teams in the NFL 91

01:10points combined with those

01:12beatdowns over the Panthers

01:13over the Cowboys in Dallas

01:15there as well. But since that

01:17haven't looked great. I thought

01:19they showed up and they played

01:20with a lot of heart for Monday

01:22night football against the

01:23Kansas City Chiefs in their

01:24building. They came ready to

01:26play the offense looked a

01:27little better early there but

01:29tailed off Derek Carr leaving

01:31that game, you know with the

01:32oblique he wanted to come back

01:33but obviously cannot send him

01:35back into that one, especially

01:37when it was done there in the

01:38four. So it's not a great

01:39outlook for the Saints. They've

01:41suddenly lost that that

01:42momentum that spark that that

01:44fluidity there with the offense

01:46and if you haven't got Derek

01:47Carr at the helm for this week

01:49going against the Bucks possibly

01:51against Denver the week after

01:53it's going to be tough to see

01:54this team turn things around and

01:56you look at what you are banking

01:57on the first couple of weeks

01:59not that they were getting

02:00lucky, but they've got those

02:01home run hitters, you know,

02:02Chris Alavi Rasheed Shaheed who

02:05saw some massive bombs down

02:07field Alvin Kamara look like it

02:09was a K from, you know, five

02:11six years ago, turn them back

02:12the clock. He's still scoring

02:14plenty of touchdowns, but a lot

02:16has to go in favor when you're

02:18playing that style of football

02:19you one hand away from being,

02:21you know, a 70 yard bomb going

02:23into the house to another

02:24incompletion. And I guess we've

02:26just seen a bit of regression to

02:27the mean and regression to what

02:29we should truly expect for the

02:31Saints moving forward. So I

02:32think we're sort of taken back

02:34in the first couple. I don't

02:35think they're really as good as

02:37the scorelines were telling us

02:38and here we are two and two and

02:40three coming into week six

02:41against the Bucks.

02:43It's funny like the Saints are

02:44under 500 W but their point

02:46differential still plus 44

02:48because how badly they battered

02:49their first two opponents, but

02:51now losing three straight games

02:52and your quarterback certainly

02:53doesn't hold up. They now sit

02:55at two and three in that

02:55division the Buccaneers and the

02:57Atlanta Falcons are above them.

02:58And if we are looking at some

02:59of the odds and the prices

03:01moving forward the NFC South to

03:03win it plus 410 number the NFC

03:05title at 23 to 1 and a Super

03:07Bowl championship at 40 to 1.

03:08Here's the tough part about the

03:09Saints because maybe we're

03:10catching lightning in a bottle

03:11after those first two games

03:13you lose to the Philadelphia

03:14Eagles when you probably

03:15shouldn't have lost that game.

03:16But now you say to yourself is

03:17this really what the Saints are

03:19and Derek Carr misses a couple

03:20weeks and comes back like I'm

03:21still not feeling Derek Carr

03:22like he's going to come back

03:23and be like the Savior of the

03:25Saints. I just don't see it

03:26that way.

03:27No I don't. I think everything

03:29has to be sort of lockstep for

03:31the Saints in that offense not

03:32to score those monster numbers

03:34that we saw through the first

03:35couple of weeks there. But if

03:36you haven't got Derek Carr well

03:38it's a lot easier to scheme

03:39against. The deep shot is

03:41probably going to go away. It

03:42looks like Spencer Rattler's got

03:44a very good chance of starting

03:45in week since going against the

03:47Bucs. There's a lot of question

03:48marks behind his quarterback

03:49play. Obviously a lot of

03:51unknowns. If you can't get a

03:53downfield suddenly Alvin Kamara

03:55is not going to get as much

03:56time trying to find a couple of

03:58scenes and a couple of holes

03:59and the Saints would be up

04:00against it if they drop this

04:01one against the Bucs. You

04:03sitting at what two and four

04:05you look at the division the

04:06Falcons have only looked better

04:08and better the last couple of

04:09weeks. You've got Tampa Bay and

04:10the Bucs. Mike Evans Baker

04:12Mayfield arguably playing their

04:14best football. So the Saints

04:16are right up against it and they

04:17do not have time in trying to

04:19figure things out if they want

04:20to stay hot in the NFC South

04:22if they want to keep this

04:23season alive. It is getting

04:24late early over there in New

04:26Orleans.

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