This is Buc'in' Cray

So we're here at the last week of the season and we've gotten to this point.  I can't say that I thought we'd have to deal with Carolina as an actual team that plays professional football, but here we are.  Situation is that all the Saints need to do to get in the dance is win against the buc's.  That shouldn't be a big deal.  If we want to be crowned prom queen we have to beat the bucs and Atlanta has to beat Carolina.  I....I've never wanted Atlanta to win before, so I don't know what it's supposed to look like but here it goes. 

Dear Atlanta,
           For once, can you not be the idiot...Hold on, let me start again.

Dear Atlanta,
           Please win.  I mean, do you want to get beaten in your own house by a dude who for no religious or cultural reasons wears a head-dress while he's on the sidelines?  It's not right.  Please, do better than your best and beat Carolina.  It'd mean a lot and maybe when it's non-football season we can be frenemies. 

Ashley

..........That's about as nice as I could make it.  Apparently we're living in the times when math teachers in Seattle are being called back up to the big leagues to fight the good fight from the left bench.  Granted, that's the NFC East and...yeah.  I have additional motives other than being a Saints superfan.  Should New Orleans get the Wild Card and should the Eagles get a date to come to the dance, we're probably going to play each other.  I'm not scared of the Eagles even up north, but my boyfriend's family including my boyfriend are Eagles fans (they're from Philly).  I might have to get a babysitter for my son because I don't want him to be present with all of the shit-talkery that's going down between his father and I, and his father's family.  So please, lets win, have Atlanta beat Carolina, and I can rest easy.  It's all I really wanted.

To discuss the matter at hand of the Saints v Bucs, I first need to google search who the Buc's QB is after Freeman dipped out and went to the Vikings (I think).  Okay so it's Mike Glennon.  I kid you not when I tell you this picture popped up when searching his name:

 

 

Apparently in the days of math teachers moonlighting on the second string, the physics department, not to be outdone, sends their strongest looking high school student to star in the show as well.  Well alright then...

 

Drew (Praise Breesus) had a limited practice on Wednesday but was back up to full throttle on Thursday with the team citing a knee issue.  I had no idea there was anything wrong with his knee but okay, I hope everything is all good now.  Hot-Damn Jimmy Graham has been fighting injury all season, but I think he should be good to go this game.  Upon reviewing the injury report for Week 17, it looks like everyone who is on it is probable.  I'm reading down this list and everything looks fairly normal, calf injuries, back, knee, shoulder...and then I get to PT with an eye injury.  Ex-squeeze me?  WTF was your eye doing getting injured in football?  More importantly, who the F injures someone's eye like that?  You need to procure one of those helmet shields that I see players using.  That'll prevent those pesky eye injuries...

 

Alright, I've got stuff to do around here while the dictator is taking his morning constitutional. 

 

Praise Breesus, Geaux Saints, and for one last time in the regular season, Bless You Boys!



They call it.......North Cackilack.....

It's the dictator's nap time so I've got a few free minutes...His other 'life-giver' aka dad, aka Steve, aka Pip, aka, Seriously?  and I took him out in the snow which aside from the adorableness of the cute bear suit he was in, was apparently an unpleasurable activity as the snow hit his face and he determined that he did not care for such behavior out of the weather and demanded through a series of high pitched frequencies that we take him inside poste haste.  All of that from this little guy...

So we've got a big game ahead of us tonight, and fortunately the weather conditions are on our side.  (I know its in a dome.)  And unlike Seattle needing to summon Storm and Banshee from the X-men to beat the Saints, we're going to take on Carolina with good ol' fashioned football.  Cam clearly was not thinking when he pulled that trick-a-roo with the refs and that BS penalty call.  If he was, he would have remembered that the Saints are known for hitting like they mean it and refrained from irritating the zebras that are out there to protect him.  Because they do.  There's not going to be any slight nudge here, or a accidental brush there.  No, Malcom Jenkins is going to knock the wind out of him so freaking hard the first five rows are going to think they just felt a brees (pun INTENTED) in the 'dome.  Oh and guess who didn't see shit?  The refs.  That's who.  Even if they did, we've had a few of our defensive players proudly take the 15 for unnecessary roughness (Sharper - looking in your direction....remember when you made that dude bounce?  I do, but I bet he doesn't...)

After the kick in the crotch loss to Seattle, the Saints are going to be out for a little blood.  It might have been a short week but it was plenty of enough time for Payton and Brees (praise Breesus) to formulate a myriad of plays to run against the Carolina defense.  Gandalf was no doubt consulting his circle of wizards to come up with some interesting things to do with the Saints' defense.  I wouldn't be surprised if a few of the Panthers walk away needing to take a few days just to regroup.

This is a really important game because the Panthers and the Saints have the same record and we need to clinch the 2nd seed and our division.  In reviewing Carolina's schedule, its kind of a crap shoot because they lost to the Bills (hahahah), the Seahawks (dick), and the Cardinals (....what?).  And the rest of the wins haven't really been against any notable teams.  Aside from the Pats, it looks like they've had a pretty easy seas-y. 

Until now. 

Shit, the dictator is stirring...I have to work fast. 

Anyway, the Saints have beaten some pretty impressive teams this season.  We've had a confusing loss to the Jets, but I mean come on, who's going to play tough against the Jets?  They're not going to the playoffs so why try?  That being said, our offense is looking pretty good.  Brees (praise) is back to having a wide variety of people who no one has ever heard of that are able to catch the darts that he throws into the end zone.  Hot-Damn Jimmy Graham is set and ready to go, so that'll be a lovely sight to see, bein' all tall and catching things that people of average or slightly above height are not meant to catch.  (Ok so the dictator is awake and I had to bring him downstairs because he wasn't buying that it was still naptime and started laughing at me which then made me laugh because lets be honest who doesn't laugh when a three month old starts laughing? He's staring at me so my time here is limited.)  

The game is going down in the Saints' house tonight, so lets make it a good show.  Word is that the Saints are going to try and beat the record for the loudest indoor noise ever created as a big, "F you, Seattle, show up in our house and we'll break your earballs".  So fans - bring your noise-cancelling headphones and scream your face off.   Let's get a W for our city, boys.  Bless you boys, and as always, GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!!!