Saints Training Camp: Scrimmage Highlights

Those are some ugly “highlights”… almost every completed pass is to the sideline, no big plays over the middle. Secondary looks all world against that receiving group. Shough looks like he’s not even close to ready. He had a really bad stretch late in the video where I can’t even imagine sitting through watching that level of play in a real game. Would be 3 and out, 3 and out etc.

wtf were you watching? In the first minute and a half there was 2 plays over the middle lol. I’m not really sure what you’re expecting from scrimmage “highlights”. There’s no true tackling going on either.

That was a good watch. First time I've actually felt good about the QB competition.

Both Rattler and Shough should be able to operate in this offense with how it's currently constructed. There will be a lot of quick reads in our passing game via short routes, RPOs and TEs up the seam until the OL, WR and RB groups improve. It does seem like the offense would benefit from a more dual threat QB, but maybe they see it differently or think there's enough DT ability with what we have.

Rattler's snaps were pretty ho hum... only real highlight was that pass to the TE in the middle. Timing also looked good on that pass to the TE running a short out route.

I like what I saw from Shough overall but there were some questionable passes to covered receivers. He seems to think he can just power the football through a defender if he's targetting a covered receiver. Kinda like a young Favre or Stafford. This came back to bite him when he tried to side arm that pass against the grain that was picked off by Sewell. He can be a viable QB if he can progress through his reads and be smart with the football. He had plenty of great passes from the far hash to the opposite sideline.

Rattler also faced the #1 defense every snap including when with the #2 offense. Shough faced the #2 defense all day including some with the #1 offense.