Player Performances from the 2013 Regular Season

I've always liked IAQ, but he didn't perform as well as I'd hoped this season.
He may need more snaps.

But there's really no reason why Jenkins should still be starting over Bush once Vaccaro returns.

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Lofton has been disappointing, but I thought Hawthorne made quite a few good plays.

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pretty much this. neither guy graded that well in pass coverage but it seems like Hawthorne has played better to me. I don't know how they go about determining their grades and what all has to be accounted for but I liked what I saw form Hawthorne this year.

there for awhile in the Seattle game, he was one of the few bright spots on defense. I thought he played hard in the loss to the Rams too.

Lofton and Hawthorne both draw tough assignments this week with the speed of LeSean McCoy. Hope they are up to the job in taking good angles.

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. I don't know how they go about determining their grades

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They see the facts and record them.
No interpretation necessary!

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They see the facts and record them. No interpretation necessary!

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Thanks, Hoodoo.

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Lofton and Hawthorne have played solid but they aren't difference makers.

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yeah, I agree.

to me we could use more speed at that position but I think most would say the Saints have more pressing needs.

say CJ Moseley was there when we picked in the draft... take him?

I think he could be there because LB's aren't taken as high anymore but I guess he could always knock it out of the park in his workouts and be a top pick.

This dude would make a nice combo with kenny especially when we play falcons and panthers.

I really want Armstead to perform well so we aren't forced into drafting an LT first round, whom at the end of the 1st round might not even be all that much of a difference maker anyway.

I would love to beef up our ILB's to fix our porous run defense, but at the same time I want our defense to create turnovers. How would we go about doing this? Getting ball hawk Safeties/Cornerbacks, or is it just coaching?

I also want Armstead to do well for similar reasoning. Only I want us to draft a stud WR instead. And if not the WR then an upgrade to CB with ball hawking skills.

Vacarro was a greater impact than the stats say he was and will be missed in the playoffs

Surprised DLP's stats weren't worse. He is serviceable but the position can surely be upgraded.

Some other notes looking at the numbers.

Offense
Sproles was huge in the first half in the passing game but seemed to tail off toward the end because of seemingly less snaps(but still did well with the snaps given). I think that was due to needing to keep PT in to block because teams more and more started to take advantage of our Oline. Now with PT out we may have to run more of a spread offense along with more of a heavy offense(more HB/FB/TE sets and 2 TE sets) with very few 1 back 1 TE sets.

Colston definitely came alive more in the second half but I think that was due to two reasons. I think he was still nursing an injury early and I think Brees was locking in WAY too much on Graham early(which helped cost us the Pats game and seemed to change after that).

Grubbs definitely seemed to turn a corner with a healthy Evans. He still seems to be lacking in run blocking strength and gets pushed back by power rushers still, but with Evans able to take guys one on one again DLP has been able to help Grubbs a lot more.

I don't think the numbers bear out how well PT did in pass blocking because he picked up a shite ton on blitzes throwing his body into harms way. Once again a great all around year for PT and his absence at Philly will likely be felt but hopefully be compensated for.

I noticed Stills is missing but I know from watching him that he is becoming a more reliable deep threat along with being able to run under routes and he is a great run blocking WR. Him and Meach are excellent run blockers. Meach also did very well in his limited role.

Moore seems to be getting phased out by Stills(which is good for the cap) but he is still a very reliable zone buster and stealthily gets behind defenders despite not having blazing speed.

Collins and DLP both seem to have taken big steps backwards this year. Collins has shown out more in the pass game but his run blocking regressed dramatically. DLP is a huge reason for our early run game woes(along with Evans being hurt and Grubbs and Brown getting bullied).

Toon hasn't shown enough to be considered a future starter but you can see flashes of talent every now and then. I think Meach getting way more snaps than him says a lot about how far he still has to go. By the time he is ready we may have already moved on.

Harris sucks in the eligible role. I think he is a better blocker than that when actually lined up at RT but he is still very unproven.