You are wasting your time, which is a shame since you are absolute right about Bush helping this team win every game this year…But this is “Grandmaster Wrong’s” blog, and the thinks he not only knows football but he also understands the mind of Sean Payton… Tell you what. All of you who are sure that “Reggie will fade away”, just hold your collective breaths. Just as sure as all you experts were that Will Smith and Charles Grant were washed up, and are now denying you ever thought that, you will end up looking equally stupid about your Bush hating before this season is over. Sean Payton knows exactly what he has in Bush, and I’ll wager dollars to doughnuts that he still fully believes in the young man. And as a loyal Saints fan, I’ll stick with the coach instead of the foul mouthed bloggers.

WHO DAT!

Interesting little thing stats are. You know lies, damn lies, and statistics and all. Here’s a little breakdown of touches, this includes rushes, receptions and returns (to help the numbers just a smidge):

RB Guys named Reggie: 15-15-34-14
RB Guys not so named: 28-19-19-23

Standout game for Reggie? Game 3 against the Bills. Score at half time? 10-7, a mere 3 point game. Touches by Reggie: 27 Touches by some guy not named Reggie: 5

Final score? A comfortable 27-7.
Touches by Reggie: 7 Touches by some guy named Pierre: 14

I think the writing is on the wall here that SP sees what he has. In every game, the other RBs are getting ~2:1 touches on Reggie and it isn’t because there are more of them. Bell had the duties in games 1 and 2 with Pierre in (half of)3 and 4.

Bush is a smaller part of the offense than ever before, and is even less of a part when it matters most. Pierre had been banged up and sick leading up to the Bills game. If SP had sufficient faith in Bush to take the team from the 10-7 quagmire (giggty) to a commanding 27-7, do you think we would have pushed Thomas to run in the second half? No, he would have rested the guy who was banged up and let Reggie do his thing, but he didn’t. And because he didn’t, we put away a team that was hanging around through 3 quarters.

ASaint Said:
October 8th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I got an answer for that one Soggy Bottom….
IT’S FUCKIN’ POINTLESS!
He never follows the FB anyway, it’s like wasting a man on the field. So I’m guessing that putting an extra WR or TE on the field takes away a defender.

My guess on this, and excuse the lack of recent review of any DVR’d games game film, is that part of Reggie’s problem is he is too quick to abandon a play if the hole isn’t available immediately. By putting another body in Reggie’s way it simply makes it more likely that he abandon the designated hole.

Again, totally off of recall here, but many of Reggie’s utter failures, come when he gets nailed in the back field from a guy coming off the edge. Reggie’s more recent successes have come on taking the ball straight up the gut. Teams have clearly recognized Reggie’s impatience in permitting an interior hole to open up and bouncing the play to the outside and have the ends adjust accordingly.

In turn, if you’re going to have your ends shoot the outside trying to intercept a reggie improv to the outside, you’ll likely cheat your linebacker to cover the flat lest you be burned by a swing pass. Presto! If you get the hole open in time to satisfy Reggie and he takes it up the gut, the end will whiz by and be in the back field having a cup of tea with Brees and Reggie has a good shot of being able to sneak out between the LB’s, thus giftwrapping a 6-8 yard minimum gain.

Of course, all of this is straight, albeit hazy, recall, so it could be completely false. But this I think is an example of the “defenses have to plan for Reggie!” arguments bearing out. Of course they plan for him, but the history has shown that more often than not, Reggie shuffles and tries to bounce out way more than not, so the D Cord’s are willing to take their chances on the outside (which is where the more damaging stuff could happen anyway).

Payton does know what he has, that’s why he isn’t geting as many handoffs. I agree that Reggie is an intergal part of the offense and the 2nd most irreplaceable piece. Other people can do what PT and Bell do(not everyone can be Reggie) That fact alone leads me to believe he’ll be around

“Grandmaster Wrong” eh? That’s gold, Jerry. Mind if I use that?

Or maybe there was no internet then for foul-mouthed bloggers to be wrong on.

You are wasting your time, which is a shame since you are absolute right about Bush helping this team win every game this year…But this is “Grandmaster Wrong’s” blog, and the thinks he not only knows football but he also understands the mind of Sean Payton… Tell you what. All of you who are sure that “Reggie will fade away”, just hold your collective breaths. Just as sure as all you experts were that Will Smith and Charles Grant were washed up, and are now denying you ever thought that, you will end up looking equally stupid about your Bush hating before this season is over. Sean Payton knows exactly what he has in Bush, and I’ll wager dollars to doughnuts that he still fully believes in the young man. And as a loyal Saints fan, I’ll stick with the coach instead of the foul mouthed bloggers.

WHO DAT!