Double-Reverse Gadget Plays Featuring Hoss and Skywalker

How quickly can your season end if you’re playing the division leader in a game you should win?

Thanks to ESPN’s Play-by-play feature, The Saints Guy can show you so you can read it for yourself.

2nd and 10 at NO 49. (3:36) - R.Bush to NO 37 for -12 yards. - FUMBLES, RECOVERED by TB- J.Haye at NO 37. J.Haye to NO 37 for no gain (D.Brees).

Okay, that was a little jumbled and hard to read. How’s this?

2nd and 10 at NO 49. 3:36 is left on the clock. The Saints are nursing a three-point lead and are trying to run the clock out. The Saints Guy hears nature calls and goes to The Saints Bathroom. Meanwhile, Sean Payton is making the single worst play call of the 2007 season, which (I just found out) is called “The Superdome Special.” As The Saints Guy peruses a Calvin and Hobbes collection, shouting ensues from the living room from Hoss and Skywalker. Reggie Bush has just tossed the football backward to Devery Henderson on a reverse, only to bobble off his fingers (everyone is to blame here) and hit the turf. Jovan Haye falls on the ball at the NEW ORLEANS (all CAPS for a reason; I’m shouting) 37 yard line. Luke McCown (in one of his I think FIVE starts as an NFL quarterback) is made to look like a pro-bowler when he engineers a 37-yard drive to end the ballgame.

Oh, and the Bucs increased their division lead to three games.

The Saints were playing for something and crumbled. Typical Saints, right?

Well, it WAS a bad play call. And it did cost the Saints the playoffs (if I’m wrong, I’ll eat some Buccaneer crow). So now we have four more games to go through.

Here’s the most frustrating part-- New Orleans will probably finish 8-8 or God help us 9-7 and find a way to miss the playoffs and get stuck with a 17-20 pick in an already weak draft!

At this point, aren’t you hoping they phone the season in from here out? You’re already down one star running back. Do you really want to risk your second one? While I’m not a “tank” advocate in the least, I really really want to see some Pierre Thomas in the next four weeks. We already know that Deuce is too injury-prone, Reggie can’t handle the full load, and Aaron Stecker is two seasons away from selling auto insurance. I’m advocating for a Pierre Thomas December so we can find out if we struck tailback gold again.

At this point, what do we have to lose?

***New Blog Section Alert***: Random Musings

Here’s my buddy Skywalker throughout the entire third and most of the fourth quarter:

“Isn’t New Orleans winning?”

Seriously, Fox kept showing Tampa Bay stats and the TV analysts really made it sound like the Bucs were winning, even when it was 20-17. Skywalker doesn’t have much of a temper, and that’s why my 42” Vizio (that’s V-I-Z-I-O) is still intact.

How does Fox pick these guys? They were practically rooting for Tampa Bay in New Orleans!! Nothing frustrates me more than people paid to be neutral that seep with bias. I’m still convinced (especially after the Texans game) that all you need is a larynx for this job.

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Throughout the broadcast, we all got a serious chuckle anytime the Citizen’s Eco Drive watch commercials came on. Who at Citizen thought it was a good idea for Eli Manning to be its spokesperson? Some Ole Miss graduate?

And what’s the motto for the Citizen’s Eco Drive watch you might ask?

“Unstoppable.”

When has “unstoppable” ever described Eli? I somehow imagine he throws interceptions while tossing a football through a suspended tire in Archie’s backyard. Every time this commercial is on, I laugh out loud for a good 7 seconds.

Let me put it this way: when Eli Manning is your spokesperson, you are agreeing that your product will self-destruct within six months of purchase and three weeks after the warranty runs out. In all honesty, Eli has to be the 15th to 20th best quarterback in the NFL. *cough* That’s out of 32 friggin’ teams! You’re telling me it was too much to get Brees, Brady or even Derek Anderson? You have to sell your $300 watch behind Eli Manning, known throughout football land for his ability to fall apart down the stretch? This would be the equivalent of Mel Gibson being the poster-child for AA.

Mel: “I know; I’ve been there. But in my defense, the cop looked Jewish.”

Just shoot me now.

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