My son is due any day now and needless to say I've been equally as pre-occupied with his arrival as I have with the Saints and the pre-season. We're going against the Texans today, a team that we've faced before in the regular season to little pomp and or circumstance. Most people could not care less about the pre-season, and to these shit-on-Christmas-er's, I say, "Clearly you've never even tried to win fantasy football". My boyfriend is one of these individuals. Pre-season games are a 60 minute job interview for your 4-7 round draft picks. They give you an opportunity to praise (or damn) your coaching staff for their picking prowess in their draft of the rooks. The Saints are coming off their final year of good ol' Roggie G fallating himself to the tune of someone else taking responsibility for his mistakes and cover-ups.
Another important reason for pre-season games is in the event of injuries you need to have a good knowledge of a team's depth chart if you need a quick pick to fill in for a starter. None of this should be news to any of you though.
I doubt Drew Brees (praise Breesus) will be making much of a show today, although he might want to get some practice throws in and get us 14 points and 200 passing yards just for fun-sies. To this I could abide as long as there are no INJURIES.
I've caught a fair amount of the Redskin's preseason mostly because my fat ass has been pretty pre-occupado with my son's pending arrival, being what seems to resemble an understudy for Shamoo, and enduring 24 hour heartburn which has rendered me pretty useless when it comes to finding out about the Saints pre-season aside from highlights on ESPN. Which to me would just be the entire game, but I guess to each their own. We're 2-0 in the pre-season and I hope that we make it 3-0 because that would be lovely. However, I would not wish this if we are in any way to risk injury. I don't care for injuries during the pre-season. Its about as smart as my cat Oskar trying to experiment with this new thing he's discovered called, "a lit candle". He's never been accused of being exceptionally smart, I'll tell you that much. That being said, here's to a new season, a new son, and the chance for me to finally start drinking again! GEAUX SAINTS and Bless you boys!
What I consider to be as brilliant as risking injury during the preseason. 