UNRAVEL: New Orleans Saints Poised for Falcons DOWNFALL, Michael Penix, Drake London Injury Impact

UNRAVEL: New Orleans Saints Poised for Falcons DOWNFALL, Michael Penix, Drake London Injury Impact

The Atlanta Falcons are an absolute disaster and that’s great news for the New Orleans Saints. We got all that and a little bit of land yap for you on today’s episode of Locked on Saints. You are Locked On Saints, your daily New Orleans Saints podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. What is good Huda nation and Hudad family? I am your host, your friend Ross Jackson, New Orleans native, your New Orleans Saints expert and credential member of the media covering those New Orleans Saints as a Saints beatr writer over at louisiana sports.net. On today’s episode of Locked on Saints, the New Orleans Saints rebuild is either heading in the right direction or the wrong direction. I’ll give you my thoughts, but I can’t wait to hear yours. We’ll also dive into red zone and run game coming into focus as the New Orleans Saints get through their self scouting process. And we’ll kick everything off with the Atlanta Falcons being an absolute disaster here ahead of rivalry week. The Atlanta Falcons are unraveling. We got all that coming up for you on today’s show. We appreciate you very much. Whether it’s your first time or your next time being with us this time, making it a short first listen and being every day you’re here on the show, which is a proud part of Locked on Podcast Network, the number one sports podcast network. Thanks to you. Thank you very much for helping us get here as we bring you your team every day. Today’s episode brought to you by our friends over at FanDuel. You can head over to fanduel.com today to get started. Get $300 in bonus bets as a new customer if your first $5 bet wins. And you might want to put that first $5 bet on the New Orleans Saints this weekend. We’re going to be going up against a team that is absolutely unraveling ahead of the big rivalry weekend with the Atlanta Falcons. Now, we should acknowledge that it is a divisional matchup. And so sometimes even with these kinds of things that the Atlanta Falcons are going through, which we’ll highlight here in just a moment, might not mean a lot, right? Divisional matchups very hard to predict, always competitive, very rarely do you see the blowouts, especially in the NFC South. And so for New Orleans, this is a major opportunity for them, as we discussed in yesterday’s episode, to galvanize this New Orleans Saints fan base and say, “Hey, look, trending in the right direction.” And the door is wide open for them to do exactly that. The Atlanta Falcons have placed starting quarterback Michael Panick Jr. on injured reserves, so he will miss at least the next four games, although he’s not expected to return this season. He is though seeking second opinions, looking to see if there’s other opportunities for him to potentially beat that timeline, actually get back this season. But very rarely do second uh not second opportunities. What’s the word? Second opinions. Um very rarely do second opinions improve on a season ending prognosis. Like that doesn’t happen very often. And so it doesn’t feel like that’s likely. And that’s really unfortunate. Like Michael Pennix Jr. very talented player, very talented young man, and did not get the opportunity to finish out this season, which was kind of his season. And so, we’ll see what ends up coming for him over on the opposite side of the off seasonason here in 2026, where he will again be this Atlanta Falcons uh starter. But the Falcons do have a good quarterback to fall back on, right? One of the few teams that has a very experienced veteran as their backup quarterback. the Falcons taking the absolute opposite approach that the Saints did, right? The Saints went all young all the time. Taesm Hill and then their coaching staff being made up of former quarterbacks, the Atlanta Falcons had already spent all that money on Kirk Cousins and then went and drafted Michael Pennic Jr. and then held on to Kurt Cousins probably for exactly this type of situation. So, we won’t take this lightly for the Saints in this matchup that they will still have to compete here big time going up against a guy in Kurt Cousins who’s seen it all as a veteran 10 plus year player uh who’s four and four against the Saints including the postseason and I think and yeah one and three uh here in the Superdome whether he’s playing for Washington, Atlanta, Minnesota or otherwise when it comes to regular season games and so for the Saints they can’t you know sleep easy here uh by any stretch of the imagination just because Michael Pennik Jr. isn’t playing. In fact, I think some people are more concerned, not not necessarily player related, but I know a lot of fans even more concerned that it’s going to be Kurt Cousins instead. So, look for the pass rush to be a big part of the factor in this game. Chase Young, Carl Grannerson, Cam Jordan, Chris Rump, those guys are going to have to take over this game up against a statuesque quarterback that’s not going to move around very much and so get after him and then get him to the ground. So, I think that’s going to be big. But the other thing here that is another impact moment for uh Atlanta is that wide receiver Drake London could be out for some amount of time but is not expected to play this upcoming weekend against the Saints. This so the Falcons will not have their starting quarterback and they will not have their star wide receiver. They still have a very very good running back though and Bejian Robinson and a really good running back tandem that always gives the Saints fits. Not just Bejian Robinson but also Tyler Algier. Those guys combined for three rushing touchdowns just last week in the 27 to30 loss up against the Carolina Panthers. And so there’s still ways for that offense in Atlanta to attack, but they are going to be down two of their big cornerstones going into this season. And of course, offensive coordinator over there and play caller Zack Robinson has not necessarily been in the best of graces with our good friends over at Locked on Falcons and the uh Falcon Squad show, Locked on Atlanta as well. And so we’ve seen a lot of concerns around how things have been going. And so this Atlanta Falcons team is all of a sudden at a tail spin at the worst possible time for them, but a great time for the New Orleans Saints. We’re not trying to make light of injuries here, but just the strategic side of this in that there is a game still to be played on the field. This is a major situation and a major opportunity for New Orleans to effectively battle themselves out of the basement of the NFC South. Saints win this game, they’re in third place. Saints win this game and the Atlanta Falcons get a better draft position, but that draft position goes to the Los Angeles Rams who, as our good friend Nick Underh Hill said on social media the other day, uh they the Los Angeles Rams are in a really unique situation. They could win the Super Bowl and have a top five pick by the time it’s all said and done because of how poorly things have gone for Atlanta. And so the Saints who are trying to we mentioned the word galvanize, right? galvanize the fan base that are are trying to show that their uh steering wheel that their compass is pointed in the right direction when it comes to this rebuild, when it comes to development of these young players, the building blocks, all that coming off this by-week. A real opportunity here up against Atlanta to flex a muscle and to say, “Hey, look, not as bad. Not necessarily not as bad, but not as bad. I don’t think you’re going to look at it that way, but maybe like not as far away as some might have assumed. And that’s kind of a comment on Atlanta folks, right? And so, uh, New Orleans in a really, really, really good position here, uh, heading into this week. Now, New Orleans for what’s available to it on its active roster should be mostly healthy. We’ll see if Tales Wonga comes back. We’ll see if Jack Stole gets back. But outside of that, like the Saints seem pretty good. We met with Kell Moore on Monday and he said that there were no like new injuries that popped up over the by-week or anything weird like that. Uh players got an opportunity to rest, get their body back under them, make sure that everything’s good and that they’ll continue to monitor the progress of Talas Fong as well as Jack Stole once they get into practices which will begin tomorrow on Wednesday. And things are going to get really interesting from there because the Saints could be coming off of the buy as healthy as they can be, right? You still have guys that are out for the season. and you can’t do anything about that are guys that are on injured reserve. But on the other side, the Saints coming up against another opponent that’s hampered. Now remember, this is a Saints team that has gone up against hampered opponents before. You look back at that San Francisco game week two, not able to take advantage of that fully, right? Not able to get a win in that situation. And so a pretty interesting progress report potentially here for New Orleans if they again go up against a team that is down some of its core weapons and some of its cornerstone pieces but can come out on the other side with a victory instead of a ooh almost there. Ooh, they were competitive. Ooh, they were they were there until the very end. Blah blah blah. This is good opportunity to say hey look the barometer is pointing towards progress here for New Orleans. In order for them to do that, there’s obviously some things the self scouting of the by-week have to show improvement when it comes to the rest of the season and that will be in focus as early as this game up against the Falcons, particularly red zone and run game. Let’s break it all down as we continue on with today’s episode of Lockdown Saints, part of Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Today’s episode of Lockown Saints brought to you by our friends over at FanDuel. 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So head to fanduel.com, sign up, and start playing your game with FanDuel today, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. All right, family. The New Orleans Saints are in position to try to make some strides here before the end of the season with seven games left to go. And of course, starting off here with Falcons hate week. I had a Falcons fan actually tell me the other day that uh the this weekend has been really rough. He actually called it the worst weekend ever for the Atlanta Falcons. And I was like, I think there was a Super Bowl weekend that might have been worse. But that’s just me. But for Atlanta and for New Orleans going up against Atlanta rather, the Saints have a real opportunity here coming out of the by-week to show, hey, did the self scouting, put in the work, addressed some of the issues, made some adjustments. Now look, and it doesn’t mean that they’re going to turn everything, you know, on its head. Doesn’t mean that they’re going to 180 in places where they were struggling, now they’re going to be perfect. No, it’s not that. But can you see some incremental improvement to some of the places where they’ve struggled so far through the season? Looking over the course of the last seven games, we asked Kellen Moore about that on Monday about, you know, what was the process of scouting. He basically outlined that each coordinator sort of leads the process and it kind of goes through different talking points. Let’s look at this area. So I assume that means like let’s take a look at the passing game and then everybody kind of goes through, right? Kell Moore leading the offense along with Doug Nusmeire. How do we feel about where the passing game is for the wide receivers, for the for the tight ends, for the offensive line, for the quarterbacks, for and you’re working with all these position coaches and you’re kind of getting granular. And one of the things that he mentioned was that a lot of times when it came down to looking at each of these places, things that you do well and places where you can improve, that some of the emphasis on growth areas or improvement areas moving forward came down to situational stuff. And that makes a lot of sense. Things have not been strong, not been super strong uh situationally. Some things have gotten a little bit better against Carolina, they were excellent on third down. That is a change or an improvement, right? Incremental incremental, but an improvement from what we saw early on in the season. One thing that we have watched the New Orleans Saints or two things we’ve watched the New Orleans Saints struggle with all season so far, red zone, run game, right? Those are things that we know Saints are one of the few teams where the closer that they get to the end zone, it feels like the less likely they are to score. And it doesn’t feel like that for no reason. Let me tell you, the Saints right now 32nd in the NFL. That’s last. This is true. That is last uh amongst the entire league when it comes to red zone touchdown percentage. That’s the amount of times that you get into the red zone and score a touchdown. What’s the percentage of that across, you know, divided by you’re looking at the entirety of all your red zone possessions. So, the Saints 38.5%. Right above them, another team at 43%. So, a pretty good gap there. pretty good gap. And so this is a place where New Orleans has to get better. This is one of the worst red zone teams on offense that we have seen in a very long time or at least in a long time. And so this is an area where the Saints desperately need to improve. And so we’ll be looking for the incremental improvements. Does that mean that for the rest of the season all of a sudden they’re 75 to 100% converting red zone possessions to touchdowns? That’d be great. That’d be a lot of fun to cover, but I don’t think it’s going to happen like that. But if they get closer to, you know, scoring on one of two possessions and scoring on three of four possessions or scoring on two of two possessions every now and then, things like that, like those will be those incremental improvements that you’re looking for. Two out of four, all that. It it’s better than 0 of four, one of four, all those other things. Uh, in fact, the Saints last three games, last three games, not not last week so that you count the by-week, but last three games that they have played hovering just above or just under 16.7% in the red zone. 16, not 60, not 6-0, 1 16 really, really struggling there. So, as they move out of the by-week and Kell Moore has shown he can make these adjustments, right? And he mentioned you’re trying to make these adjustments all throughout the year as well. And so he didn’t take him he didn’t like let himself off the hook like there’s there were opportunities to adjust all throughout the season. They have not done that successfully. However, maybe an opportunity here with a little bit of that extra time and that full bye to really go ahead and put in the adjustments that might work. It’s going to be very interesting. I think it’ll be a different approach in terms of what the play calling is there. Maybe the aggression level, taking more shots at the end zone, whatever it might be in that red zone area. We’ll see how it is that they that they do it. But like there were a lot of things early on to where look, running in the red zone’s good. If you can run the football in the red zone, that’s going to help you increase your efficiency. But if the only thing you’re willing to do is run in the red zone, you’re going to run into some trouble. And that happened a little early on in the year. But then we also saw like, you know, some of the miscommunications or misconnections, things like that. Saints not necessarily seeing things operate in structure. A lot of stuff out of structure, hard to work out of structure in the red zone. Little bit less space, of course, for the defense to be able to cover. They could be a little bit more um their ability to plaster is a little bit stronger and stay on the hips of those wide receivers and all that. just less room for those wide receivers to try to find those open pockets on the field as well. So all of that plays in. So now you have to find a more aggressive instructure attack for the red zone. Let’s see if the Saints are able to do that. That’ll be a big part of what we’re watching. Remember 38.5% right now converting red zone possessions to touchdowns. If we see that for the first 10 games and then we see something like 50% for the seven games, incremental improvement. It’s not great. It’s not done. It’s not a finished product. It’s far from perfect, but incremental improvement. Similarly, the run game. The Saints right now have just over 20 rushes for 10 plus yards. One of the lowest across the league when it comes to that. The Saints have not been a home run team. In fact, they have not had a 30 or more yard run by a running back since the end of the 2021 season. 2022 calendar year, but it was January of 2022, the end of the 2021 season. Alvin Camro with an exactly 30 yard rush. That’s the last time that the Saints have had a breakaway 30 plus 30 or more yard rush. Now, that was one of the big things that Keller Moore highlighted. He highlighted red zone and he highlighted the run game and looking for more explosive run opportunities. If all of a sudden the Saints start finding some, I’m not even saying a 30 plus yard run per game, as awesome as that could be for a team. I’m talking about if they can get two by the end of the year. Heck, if they can get one by the end of the year, that is set up by good blocking, that’s set up by good vision in the running back, not some big fluke to where all of a sudden like you get completely caught up on the inside of a run play on an interior run play, but then the running back bounces outside because the defense is bad at tackling and then goes and picks up some yards that way. Nuh-uh. None of that. None of that. designed run that because of its design, because of its blocking, because of its scheme, picks up 30 or more yards, they can do that one time before the end of the season. That’s better than 2024. That’s better than 2023 and that’s better than 2022 where there were zero such runs by a running back in those seasons, right? The 2021 to 2022 season was the last one that we saw even though it was in the 2022 calendar year. So, it’s going to be very interesting to see can the Saints show some incremental improvement in red zone and run game coming out of the bioweek. Now, those aren’t the only places where there’s opportunity for growth. There’s absolutely more, but I’m really curious about those two as the ones that Kell Moore volunteered up when asked about what are some of the takeaways. Those were two places that he highlighted. I’m very very intrigued to see how quickly maybe some of the adjustments that the Saints are looking to make coming out of this bye-week can catch fire, especially against some bad opponents here along the rest of the way. Speaking of that, the Saints are going to be going into an easy schedule towards the end of the year. So, how do we take a look and quantify and contextualize wins if the Saints end up going on a little bit of a run towards the end of the year? I think there’s reason to be happy about that. if it happens. Let’s break that down next as we continue on and wrap up today’s episode of Locked On Saints for the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. 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Explore the new Pelleton Crossraining Tread Plus at onepelon.com. Let’s get it. Who that Asian? The New Orleans Saints are trying to show that they’re heading in the right direction with and we can say it now, their rebuild. Uh yes, the rebuild word is out in public now. Uh it’s great. And so I I’m I was really curious about and I am very curious about your thoughts on this. So please chime in and let me know what you think here too. But, uh, the question for you basically being, are the New Orleans Saints rebuilding in the right with the right trajectory? Like, are they upward or are they downward? Like, are they going the right direction? And I I think there are some signs of optimism towards that. There’s still seven games left. So, there’s no done deal when it comes to this answer. It’s just kind of more like how do you feel about where they are right now? You know what I mean? And so for the Saints, I I wrote down three reasons that Kellen Moore gave and that I agree with where the sense or the like the the the catalyst for optimism lies right now. And I I I have three things. First of which is growing youth. Second thing is uh boughtin veterans. And then the third thing is honest evaluations by the coaching staff. Now, two of those things particularly Kellen Moore highlighted. That was number one and number two. Growing youth as well as bought in vets. So, we’re going to start there because I think both of these things are good examples and good sort of pieces of evidence that the Saints could be headed in the right direction. Again, nothing is for certain. Absolutely nothing is for. There’s so many different things that can happen that can derail, that can make things go sideways, that can force a hard right turn, all this stuff for the for better or for worse. Like I don’t even want to go into like bad examples of how things could like derail because I don’t want to put that kind of juju out there. But like for instance, what if like as a good thing like what if Derek Carr decides he wants to come back for 2026 and the Saints get to trade his rights to another team and then all of a sudden they get more draft picks out of that for the 2026 draft class and potentially even the 2027 draft class, right? So So there’s things that can accelerate the rebuild. There’s things that can slow the rebuild. There’s so much push and pull that can happen in game, onfield, offfield, front office, locker room. so much different stuff. So, so I want to be certain here that we’re that that we’re clear that nothing is set in stone. Nothing is cemented right now. But, but these are the things that I think are good pieces of evidence as a source of potential optimism should you buy it. Let’s let’s let’s put it that way. I’m going to hedge the heck out of it for you. So, you can grab on to it if you want to. Number one, growing youth. Uh we talked about this a couple days ago where we were talking about like the building blocks and watching the building blocks through the rest of the season. The Saints right now have Kelvin Banks Jr. their first round pick. Tyler Shuck their second round pick. Jonas Anker their third round pick. A corner in Quincy Riley who’s a fifth round pick or fifth fourth fifth or fourth round pick. Um and then you have guys like Danny Stzman and now Devin Neil that are also contributing. So you have guys that can be that are already that have already stepped into starting roles for you. Uh Shuck Banks Sanker Riley for instance, right? So, you got two on offense, two on defense there. And you have these other guys that are contributing. Danny Stsman’s getting rotated in. Uh you have uh another guy in uh Deon Neil, of course, who is like splitting the carries with Alvin Chimera in the backfield on on offense at the running back spot. And so, you have these building block players that are part of the rookie class, but you also have these building block players that are going to be around for a little while. Devon Vele, when they signed him off of waiverss, they signed him with years remaining on his deal. That’s a building block for you. Chris Olive, if he does indeed want to stay in New Orleans forever, he might get an extension$25 to $30 million, maybe even on top of all maybe even maybe even topping that and he is all of a sudden a building block for you because he’s around for a while. Chase Young is on a three-year deal. He’s around for a while. He’s a building block, right? So, there are all these other Talia Fuong is not a rookie, but he’s in his second year starting at right tackle. if he and Kelvin Banks pan out. Two of your most important positions tackle and you tackle bookends, those are your building blocks and they’re good to go for you. And so that’s kind of what I mean here like you have the youth experience and you have the youth exposure trending in the right direction for you so far here throughout this uh throughout this season. So that that’s that’s one piece to highlight. Number two are the bought-in veterans, the guys on the opposite side of the spectrum. And Keller Moore highlighted two players in particular, Cameron Jordan as well as defensive end as well as linebacker Deario Davis, right? Two of the better players over on the defensive side. Demario Davis has just continued to be incredible. Um, I don’t know how he’s still doing this. I don’t know how he’s still doing this. I I talk on a microphone all day and my knee hurts. I don’t know how he does this, but it’s incredible and it’s super super I’m super like honored that I get to see it. And I think that Deario is a really, really good example of a guy that is a bought-in veteran. This is a dude that if he probably wanted to right now, or if he wanted to within the last couple of years, could have split out a year, licority split, and then gone somewhere else, landed with a team that really wanted to bolster its defense and was one piece away from a championship defense or something like that. Like, Deario could have gone ring chasing. Cam Jordan could have gone ring chasing in recent years. and neither of them chose to do. So, they chose to stay here and they choose to still play really hard. And I know that sounds so juvenile. It sounds so elementary and it sounds so basic, but it’s also so easy to say, you know what, I’m going to take this snap off or that snap off or whatever. And we’re not seeing any of these veterans doing that. And when you have the youngest coach in the NFL who’s barely older than some of the players that are on the field, right, there’s a real opportunity there for the buy out, right? Or the lack of buy in. And we’re not seeing that from these guys. Like the Carolina game, Cam played his heart out. Deario played his heart out. Justin Reed still out there balling. Like there’s all of these pieces for Taesm Hill 7 minute and 35 second drive to close out the game. And a lot of it was just him getting hit and he did it. He completely bought in, right? And so for me that’s that’s a positive highlight. That’s a pos that’s another because may yeah sure you drafted these guys and so they’re going to they’re going to buy in with you. you showed them that you’re a part of their vision because you selected them to come and join your vision. The other guys got inherited. So, it would be easy for them to feel like they’re not a part of the vision. But clearly, that’s not the case. And so, when you have a young head coach and really a a a well- pieced coaching staff, but still like a leans young coaching staff, uh good example here as another source of optimism should you should you choose to believe it. Um, and then number three, as I mentioned, uh, honest evaluations from the coaches. I just kind of love that Kell Moore was like, “Yeah, red zone, run game.” Like, these are things that we’re looking at. This we’re going to spend our time over the course of the boweek selfcouting and all those other things. So, I’m not going to go too far in that because there’s only so much of these coaches say out loud, but honestly valuations have been a big part of the process so far for New Orleans. Now, whether or not that ends up in wins is going to be a big part of the conversation here over the course of the last seven games. That brings us to a little bit of land yap here as we close out the uh close out the show. I want to know your opinion on the trajectory and the direction of the Saints rebuild. Do you feel good about it? You feel bad about it? You still waiting? That’s also fine, too. Like, let me know. Uh but then also, I’m wondering win or not? Like, what would you rather see throughout the rest of the season? Do you want to see this team win or would you rather see this team like drop games so they can advance? And really, what you’re looking at is the NFL draft, right? That’s fine. Like, it’s fine in either case. I I know that this team wants to win. I know that that’s what they want. They were telling me that I was talking to several players in the locker room before the Carolina game and they just continuously expressed to me, I want to win this game. We want to win this game. This is ours. Like, we’re going to go get this one. Blah blah blah. Like there was a big-time confidence level in the like ahead of the Carolina game coming out of the Los Angeles Rams game where they could have walked away embarrassed out of that game. And so to go to Carolina and then go and get that win, I can tell you right now like that attitude’s going to carry through. The bye-week is not going to impact that attitude. So this team’s going to go out there and win this team or is going to go out there try to win. This team going to go out there and compete and all that. And I’m just curious win or no, like which way do you want to see this go? Coming up in tomorrow’s episode, a deep dive into the Saints and the Falcons and how they match up schematically. Going to be a lot of fun. We appreciate you very much as always making us a party day part of your routine for saying yes to me on the show. If you see me, please say hi. 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The Atlanta Falcons are spiraling, opening the door for the New Orleans Saints to climb out of the NFC South basement. With Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and star wide receiver Drake London sidelined, Kirk Cousins steps in while Chase Young, Carl Granderson and Cam Jordan look to capitalize on the opportunity.

The Saints’ defense faces a dangerous Atlanta run game, while their own offense must address two glaring issues: red zone efficiency and explosive run plays. How Kellen Moore used self-scouting opportunities during the bye week to try and drive incremental improvement.

0:27 — Falcons Unravel, Saints Opportunity
9:40 — Saints Red Zone & Run Game Fixes
19:09 — Saints Rebuild Direction: Up or Down?

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FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)