{"id":650,"date":"2011-09-21T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saints247.net\/?p=650"},"modified":"2017-12-30T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T16:01:56","slug":"its-pronounced-who-is-that-week-2-jay-cutler-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/2011\/09\/its-pronounced-who-is-that-week-2-jay-cutler-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Pronounced “Who Is That” Week 2: Jay Cutler Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thoroughly enjoyed that game. It was a perfect way to start my Sunday morning. Yes, the Saints got their first win of the season, but mainly it\u2019s because I hate Jay Cutler. I have no reason at all to hate him. He could be the nicest guy in the world, save baby seals, give Baby Trend Expedition-Jogger-Stroller<\/span><\/a> out to children and cure diseases, and my opinion would stay the same.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just me though: all my coworkers and friends from college hate him too, and I\u2019d be willing to bet that he is one of the fans\u2019 most hated players. On the sideline, he always looks like he needs to cry or just finished complaining to his coach. Personally, I hope he\u2019s just regretting that trade from Denver. The way he talked his way out of there probably bothers me more than anything\u2014even though it wasn\u2019t entirely his fault.<\/p>\n

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This sums the game up perfectly<\/p><\/div>\n

So seeing Cutler on the turf of the Superdome for most of the game was pretty sweet. The Saints tallied 6 sacks, hit him 10 times and knocked him down constantly. That\u2019s a rough day for a quarterback. The Bears have a swiss cheese-like offensive line, but the Saints sent 36 blitzes by my unofficial count. When you blitz that often you\u2019re going to get pressure on the opposing QB.<\/p>\n

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The sweetest sack from both my Cutler-hating and awesome-celebratory perspective was the one late in the 4th<\/sup> quarter by Malcom Jenkins and Roman Harper. After taking Cutler down, both pop up and do the Bernie dance from \u201cWeekend at Bernie\u2019s 2.\u201d It was hilarious. Check out the video of it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Side Note: A player like Cutler really makes you\u00a0genuinely\u00a0appreciate nice guys like Drew Brees. Brees fully embraced New Orleans when he signed down here. It also helps that he is really good. Brees is a guy it\u2019s impossible not to like.<\/p>\n

Overall, this was a much better game for the Saints. The offense continues to look good and there is no reason to think it won\u2019t continue to put up 25+ points a game; it was so good that made all you Saints fans forget about the terrible referring early on in the game (it was<\/em> that bad). And for all my criticism of the play calling last week, I was all in favor of the trick field goal. Many of the issues from the opening game were corrected. The offensive line held their own and paved the way for 118 rushing yards and allowed just one, inconsequential, sack in the 1st<\/sup> quarter. The defense showed that Gregg Williams-aggressiveness which was absent against the Packers.<\/p>\n

The one lingering issues was the tackling. The \u2018olay tackles\u2019 weren\u2019t as prevalent this week but tackling wasn\u2019t as solid as it should be. The talking heads on TV blame the lockout and the lack of offseason conditioning and potential fines. Regardless, this could develop as a bigger problem. It\u2019s early but players will start to wear down due to fatigue as the season progresses. This only leads to worse tackling. But at least the team didn\u2019t give up any big plays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thoroughly enjoyed that game. It was a perfect way to start my Sunday morning. Yes, the Saints got their first win of the season, but mainly it\u2019s because I hate Jay Cutler. I have no reason at all to hate him. He could be the nicest guy in the world, save baby seals, give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[70,99,176,184],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-jake-madison","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-week-2","tag-who-is-that"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}