GRIT: New Orleans #Saints Tough Out Disappointing Loss, Chris Olave Impresses With Toughness

Welcome me to car. I’ll tell you everything you need to know about the New Orleans Saints after their week one loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Look, I know that the Saints lost, but I thought they were going to lose. And so, for me, the thing that I walk away with is that I’m actually quite impressed with the performance by this team. Well, Ross, how could you be impressed? They lost 13 to 20. They didn’t fully look like they were all together. 13 different penalties, 10 missed tackles or so, a 46% third down conversion percentage. Yeah, I expected all that. Those were all things that I thought that the Saints would struggle with. Penalties, missed tackles, third down defense. Those are things they always struggle with. So for New Orleans, for me, the thing that was most impressive is that despite struggling with that, they were one catch away from potentially tying that game up or going for two to win that game if they wanted to. And I thought that it was a situational stuff. A blocked field goal by Brian Brezie. A great great pass rush call by Brandon Staley on the Elante Taylor sack on Kyler Murray to force a punt to get the ball back to New Orleans for a twominut drive or a two-minute drill. And then they almost scored on that. And I thought, you know what? I love the fact that the Saints fought so hard at this young team that has so much new around them, has become really, really reliable in situational football opportunities. I thought that they fought. I thought that I loved the grit and I really liked the effort that we saw from New Orleans. And to me, no player on that football field exemplified effort, grittiness, and fight more than Chris Olive. Chris Ave had to leave the game two different times to get checked out for injury. You could tell he was frustrated. He didn’t want to get checked out. He wanted to be out on the football field, and he continued to fight his way out on that football field to the point to where he was making some key plays during that two-minute drill near the end of the game. So, I thought that he absolutely exemplified just dog mentality and exemplified the fight that we saw from this New Orleans Saints team that I’m actually rather impressed with. So, yes, I know that they didn’t win, but again, I didn’t expect them to, but I also didn’t expect them to be this competitive and I didn’t expect them to fight as hard as they did. All of that to me was very very impressive.

24 comments

  1. Another good thing is a lot of the problems they had can be coached up., like tackling , penalties,some of starters just need more experience as fans we should definitely be encouraged.

  4. This season is about to be a movie. I thoroughly enjoyed what I witnessed. However, it’s important to keep in mind that many of these players didn’t play in the preseason, so this is their first game together. Despite losing by only one touchdown when the other team was heavily favored by six, no one believed we had a chance. But mark my words, this team is about to go crazy when they fully unleash their potential.

  6. Olave did show dawg. Gotta give him credit. But I don't like shaheed, cooks and olave on the field at the same time. They are 3 of the same targets. Was hoping for a different personnel group on that last drive. Forster Moreau makes that catch juwan dropped.

  15. We definitely ain’t the worst team in the nfl !! All the crap the media was saying about us this offseason smh . We got something to prove I just want us to compete and clean up all those penalties and missed tackles ! We do that it’s a complete different ball game . Let’s get better each week ! Who Dat ⚜️

  21. Impressed by loosing to a team that will be in the lottery with then really 😂😂😂 that wasn't the eagles. Week 5 is they only chance to win their first game this season 😂😂

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