Serious question about personnel changes

Their performance was inexcusable but the way the defense played last year, outside of the first two games, was no fluke. They were consistent throughout the season and into the playoffs. I think there's reason to be optimistic.

A lot of the problems from the first two games last year was a lack of communication. I'm thinking that has to be part of the problem. The defensive line not getting any pressure... that's mostly effort right there.

Onyemata was decent, but Rankins and Davison showed me absolutely nothing. Id personally give Stallworth a shot to get a few snaps next game. Also gotta activate PJ we need another CB who can come in a few snaps a half and give crawley or lattimore a breather. D Line id start Davenport over Okafor( he looks ok but hes a bit slow rn, needs to get up to game speed.) Most importantly we have to move our Linebackers around.. Davis back to the middle, with Robertson and Teo outside and AJ Klein only in on 3rd and short, goaline, certain run situations, etc. Anzalone can play on 3rd and long utilize his speed, his run support has been an issue. Most importantly we have to find a SS, Coleman is a waste of 6 million dollars and Vonn Bell was about as awful as it gets.

His name is Craig Robertson. We should see lots of him.

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who, if anyone, will be brought up from the PS

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If you are looking to the practice squad for answers then this is going to be a long season.

As it turns out there's a reason a few national analysts were saying this Saints defense was going to be surprisingly bad.

In keeping with Saints fans tradition, most everyone poo poo'd them because muh... Kool-aid and black and gold.....

A few simple things:
1) Payton & co talking about keeping Kamara in a pitch count before the season even starts is wrong, that’s basically looking ahead at that point and assuming a Win and not taking your opponent seriously. Do what you have to do to win THIS week. As they say, “the most important game is the next game”, not a game in the 2nd half of the season or playoffs at this point.
2) LBs: Teo & Robertson we’re our 2 best last year, everyone saw that. Davis didn’t show much in preseason or yesterday. He’s okay, but not worth the contract we gave. Anzalone & Klein are backups, period
3) SS; Kurt Coleman play & contract don’t add up just like Demario Davis. Von Bell is also a backup, period
4) CBs played horrible yesterday, but I think that’s just a fluke. Crawley usually is a PI machine, which is why I can never be as high on him as most people on here, but his coverage is usually better than that. Also we definitely need to activate PJ Williams, he isn’t all pro but I think he’s way underrated on this board, also if Lattimore or Crawley get hurt then who’s going to take their place on the outside?
5) Where was Tre’Quan Smith? Sure he’s a rookie, but he looked good in preseason. Announcers made a comment about the WR corps not being where we wanted it to be, but that was first real negative I had heard in regards to Smith

Dennis Allen did not have that D ready yesterday. Played lethargic, sat back on their heels, reacted instead of attacking, and didn’t make any adjustments