I am so happy that we WON!!! But I would like to caution everyone, do not get caught up in the numbers, stats can be misleading and they do not tell you the whole story.
Newman may have given up, less catches and less yards, but that does not mean that he played such a heck of a game. It could be that coverages was rolled over to give him help as to why Brees was trying to attack Henry so much, or it could be that Henry was sitting down on the routes and Brees felt that they could get him.
And Newman, could have been playing his usual back off the receiver that Brees felt he would not get him on a double move, or like I said earlier Newman may have had LB help as well as Safety, or the DL and the OL might have been to big for Brees to see over or he may not have always had a good passing lane on that side of the Line.
There are so many factors that cause those numbers, you guys just don't know.
I do not know, I'm just throwing out some of the possibles.
In my eyes, Henry played a great game, he had a heck of a lot better game than Newman. Henry I believe they said on post game show recorded 12 tackles and had 5 or 6 pass defenses.
Yes he gave up the 33 yarder, I suffered a let down as well as everyone else, but I saw that he gambled and misjudged the ball, also I had a feeling that we would not let those guys score, I just felt that they would not score and they did not.
Those last 4 plays, I guarantee you did alot for our defense psychi, I'm willing to bet our "D" mental attitude made a great leap we'll see them play even better the next game, as well as the OL, we will get better with every game.
