re: Alltime Saints Jersey # Countdown to First Preseason Game

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"The Cajun Cannon"

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Played 7 years for the Saints with 75 starts. Went 49-26 with 1202 completions on 2055 attempts for a 58.5% completion rate and 14,630 yards passing with 85 touchdowns and 75 interceptions. He also has 4 receptions with 1 touchdown for the Saints.

In Saints history, he's 4th overall in passing yards, completions, touchdowns and completion percentage (with guys over 100 passes).

Bobby, bobby, bobby... he has settled in to the drunk representative for the whodat nation role. If you're like me he will forever have an asterisk next to him that will keep him off the NOLA Mt. Rushmore. I can handle the fallout with Finks and leaving. But to the dirty birds?!? Being a Louisiana boy makes it even harder to accept. I gotta think he chose there over other destinations to make a statement against Finks (think Curtis Lofton here for less than market value contract). It's just when he did the wings out thing vs. the Saints it became a statement against all of Saintsdom.

Second, if he hadn't left and produced the same numbers he would have had an even more prominent place in Saints lore. Statistically...

135 total TD passes (vs 85 in NOLA) would have stood until Brees. Would have been more than Archie & Brooks.

His lifetime completions would have been just 10 behind Archie. Likewise yards passing would be less than 100 behind.

So today instead of being 2nd & 3rd in most Saints alltime passing categories he's 4th. 2 of his 4 yrs in ATL were major injury outages. All the numbers might have been higher if he had stayed in NOLA. At least he was on bad ATL teams, 7-18 as a starter.

Could you please resize that photo? Or just get rid of it?

I'm fine with either.

He got a lot of love at the start, which turned into a lot of hate at the end. I'll say it like this: he QB'ed us to our first playoff win, and we imagined he would be our version of Mike Vick. Oh, well, it was fun while he was (semi-)efficient.

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Wish I still had this issue.

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I actually still have this issue framed in my Saints room.

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He got a lot of love at the start, which turned into a lot of hate at the end. I'll say it like this: he QB'ed us to our first playoff win, and we imagined he would be our version of Mike Vick. Oh, well, it was fun while he was (semi-)efficient.

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yeah. People on this board seem to remember him more for clapping after an interception and the awful backwards pass against the Chargers.

They really don't bring up the 2000 season that much. I remember how sick I felt when Jeff Blake went down that year. We had lost Ricky the week before. But AB came in and played pretty well, we lost that game but he looked okay I thought. Then the next week, he lead us to a win over the defending champ at their house

Don't get me wrong, when he smiled and clapped after a pick, it pissed me off.

Its just that is not how I choose to remember him. Most of the time anyway.

I know technically we're prolly down to day one now, but to distract from AB there are some other #2's... all kickers!!!


Chip Lohmiller (really couldn't find a NO google pic of him)


Olindo Mare

And our current:

John Kasay, still kickin'

gametime!



00 Ken Burrough- no Saints pics, a fitting player to end with... not about the player- Burrough had a decent career for the Oilers! 421 catches, 49 TDs, Pro Bowl twice. Another testament to the ineptitude of the Saints front office for the first coupla decades. Burrough was the #10 draft pick overall. Before his second year the Saints trade him along with Dave Rowe who was decent for (get this...) Hoyle Granger, Terry Stoepel, Charlie Blossom, and a 2nd Rd pick. The pick was another washout, Sam Holden. Some of those early deals were so incredibly bad it's hard to fathom.

Hey, it's 35 days to the real game #1 if ya wanna rerun these from Jim Otis.

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Who remembers this thread? 88 days to August 9th, bitches! Going obscure this time around.

Andre "fumble punts"* Hastings. (1997-1999)



I remember thinking he would be a stud for us. In his three years as a Saint he had 123 receptions for 1,741 yards and 9 touchdowns. He also had 23 punt returns for 305 yards. Not bad considering the QBs we had under Ditka. Looking back at the stats for those years makes me sad. Our leading receivers were Randal Hill, Cam Clealand and Eddie Kennison. Jeez!

Don't overlook him though, he is 34th all time in Saints history in receptions. Ahead of guys like Willie Jackson, Cam Cleeland, Kennison, Hill, Jake Reed, Jerome Pathon and Irv Smith.

*Hastings was given the nickname "fumble punts" for his habit of mishandling punt returns by Steelers radio broadcasters Bill Hillgrove and Myron Cope.