Slow start dooms Jaguars in 38-27 loss to Saints

With the season coming to an end and New Orleans missing the playoffs for the third time in four years, there is constant buzz over who should stay and who should go to improve the Saints in 2016.

The record-setting quarterback still hasn’t missed a snap since his injury during the second quarter of the Saints’ loss to the Lions the previous Monday night, when he reached 4,000 yards passing in a season for an NFL-record 10th straight year. He’s a good player who has earned every accolade he receives. “We’re playing for what we’ve established in this locker room”, Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan said.

For the Colts to become championship contenders, Luck must make the leap into a truly great National Football League quarterback and have the proper coaching to fully develop his special talents. It’s been Gregg Williams, Steve Spagnuolo, Rob Ryan and now Dennis Allen. Everyone wants to play.

“There are numerous mental breakdowns and errors and people out of position”, he said. The Jaguars’ third-year head coach rambled about how quarterback Drew Brees confused his Jaguars with alignments, shifts and changes in personnel groupings.

They have to fix their shaky defense. They do it in spurts and then all of a sudden it is lost. “I just made an instinct play”. Robinson has played well in the time he’s gotten and get’s an easy matchup this week. Without Marques Colston, Brandon Coleman came in and filled the void.

“A guy like that, man, if he can walk, he’s going to play”, Cooks said.

Working behind a banged-up offensive line that mostly stonewalled the Jaguars pass rush and gave Brees a clean pocket, the veteran picked Jacksonville’s secondary apart. “I guess it comes back to it’s on me as a coach”. Brees is very good against the blitz, and if you blitz you’ll get beat some of the time, but he has a bad foot and the Jaguars defense can’t afford to let him get into a rhythm. “We just need to start playing better consistently and I guess that’s what we’ve got to focus on”. Seems it’s too late; the insane is already there, running the team. The Saints slot/everything receiver is their biggest playmaker on offense and he needs to be accounted for at all times.

“The Panthers aren’t going anywhere”, he said.

A complete malfunction on defense didn’t really allow for mistakes on offense. I’ve seen four different defensive coordinators. I can get a wide receiver or two in the middle rounds, and I would target “big” target ends. “It’s a multi-year process”.

Some Saints fans want to move on from Brees.

Marcus Dupree is considered the greatest high school runner to ever come out of the state of Mississippi. In 10 seasons with New Orleans, he has made eight Pro Bowls and led the team to a Super Bowl victory in 2010.

I ran into a well-respected media member this week in Jacksonville who greeted me with a smile and a handshake saying, “I’m ready for it to be over”.

“There has been no one in college football like him in 30 years”, Dupree said.

This will be a important offseason for Caldwell, who is expected to splurge in the free-agent market for defensive players and use most of his draft picks on defensive players. If he isn’t able to play at full health, this game could get out of control fast. “That’s just the type of guy he is”. Leonard can do both. When you see a performance that’s not at that standard or adding on to that standard, it’s unacceptable. And it didn’t stop him from dominating. They got Jonas Gray on the field and he proved to be a spark, picking up 23 yards on his first carry.

“Typically, if a player is playing, we have cleared him medically and he is not risking further injury”, Payton said.