Simeon and place of Jameis Winston who tore his ACL back
in week 8 against the Buccaneers and not taysom Hill
the guy who was for and won last year as the replacement
for Drew Brees when
Drew was injured and now reportedly taysom Hill taking
the first-team Reps at practice and again just like for
the Cowboys yesterday was Thursday for the Saints so the hay is
pretty much in the barn if taysom Hill was taking
the first-team Reps at quarterback yesterday
he's the guy on Thursday night and I just make sense if he's
healthy as shoe that he was recovering from one Jameis
Winston first got injured than the foot problem they haven't
been using in the Jack of all trades rolling now is his
chance we got
that big contract recently in there's a huge swing there and
it all hinges on him being a full-time quarterback that's
just a starting point that's not the ending point he's got
no chance to make that money he's not the starter he's going
to play and play
well and throw the ball average of 13 times a game to even
begin to unlock that big money but first step before you're
even a position to earn that you got to be the quarterback
and we had we just haven't seen that and four straight losses
for the Saints Now's the Time to pull the ripcord Now's
the Time to see what this guy can do right percent you know
I mean one I think is Passion from from people I talk to he
wants to be a quarterback that's what he wants to
do you know too I think I have a hard time believing he would
have been the starter I think Health did play this you know
the people I know a little bit around the situation you kind
of said he's been banged up I think it was
more than even the concussion there was some other issues
there with his body to where they didn't feel like feel
comfortable putting them out of quarterback I got to think that
some part of it and I'll because I just look at
the Trevor Simeon thing and
just go I know you're not played well down the stretch in
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game when he came in early bird
Jameis Winston is different now being the backup sometimes
there's less pressure nobody expects anything soon as you
can name the starter
the week changes and yes Trevor Simeon brings nothing to
the football team there's no great talent he has no presents
I never seen him change a facial structure at any point in his
career to know so yeah they need some juice and taysom Hill
can bring
some juice to it offense that yeah Alvin Kamara even if he
does play is not a hundred percent we know the receivers
are not all that they're in New Orleans they need a guy that
can throw a laser 50 yards down the field or drop back
to throw a laser and it's not there and he can scramble 50
yards down the field and they need something there and
I think that's where taysom Hill can bring some big value to
their team this week is just far is some playmaking ability
some presence
of juice on that side of the ball
I remember before the season we're trying to figure out who
the starter was going to be for the Saints on one hand you have
the long-term Sean Payton project and taysom Hill the guy
that he cultivated and crafted and developed and groomed on
the other hand
you've got the Reclamation project in Jameis Winston who
was cast aside by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers even though he had
a 5,000 yd passing season and you know it's two different
opportunities for Sean Payton to show what he can do if he
can really get the
most out of those guys that's why I'm just so surprised he
didn't latch onto taysom Hill the moment Jameis Winston got
injured but it could just be that he'll wasn't sufficiently
healthy and maybe they did this contract in anticipation of
what's to come maybe this is
it rises chance this is his moment to prove that he can be
the guy as of next year he start a contract for its 2
years 20 million
did as a practical matter he'll get the way the contract is
structured two years 20 million right beyond that is he still
playing at a high level to be a jack-of-all-trades is he
the full-time quarterback there's a lot of gifts there and both
sides are protected
in the event that it pans out and now
let's just see what he can do let's see what he can do down
the stretch and if he can be the guy and & Shop Peyton needs
to know that because either he's got to go get himself
write a veteran quarterback or get himself a high-end
rookie or get himself to a place that has a franchise
quarterback and the Sunday Splash reports linking Peyton
the other jobs I just think it's a matter of time we
haven't seen her for a few years but it was an annual
thing and I keep waiting
for somebody on a Sunday now is the same continue to struggle
to suggest it Sean Payton may go here or they are or where
ever I mean listen he's one of the best coaches in the game
he's always going to be a hot commodity he has
any understand how to build a football team his team is
always tough he does we I think you're right your point you
make about taysom Hill is real I think they got to kind of
figure out you know what he is and what they want to
do going forward and a big part of that is you know figuring
out exactly what he is at the quarterback position and that
will dictate the future a little bit there in New Orleans
definitely again we saw some good things last last year we
really did
he made some you know high-level throws we know he
can run the football you know he makes makes you defend their
off fence a little differently because of how you do got to
worry about you know his quarterback runs his scrambling
now that that there that
has to be an acknowledgment from the defense during
the week of practice that he can make plays that way that
changes the way Divas play when you going to worry about that
type of stuff let alone he's got a big time or I mean a big
time are they not he can he can really swing it and stretch
the field out that way to where it could also help other avenues
of their offense because you're going to have to defend more of
the field to taysom Hill quarterback than you will with
Trevor Simeon and they're not out of this yet they're not out
they got a not the toughest schedule in the world 5 and 6
they can beat the Cowboys this week they got the Jets the week
after that they got the Dolphins and Panthers and the
Falcons all in the schedule you know the Buccaneers is the only
game I look at just go okay that'll be your course really
tough but we know they got their number a little so I'm
not counting down New Orleans in this playoff conversation
quite yet with
Sean Payton as a head coach no way amazing that they have not
lost five in a row since before Peyton the Jim Haslett final
year 2005 and they were all over the place after Katrina,
login five in a row even when the year they didn't have
Sean Payton 2012 didn't lose five in a row the year they had
no defense two years they had no defense they still didn't
lose five in a row so they they they really need to turn this
around to getting the Cowboys at a perfect time and
they could begin to rebuild this a little bit and maybe
what they do at Tampa Bay coming up on Sunday Night
Football in a few weeks that that'll be the moment we're
born nothing else
what team is down there's no guarantee that they're going to
continue to stay down they can turn it around when the team is
up there's no guarantee they're going to continue to stay up
that that's one of the realities of the biggest season
ever there's more
time for good team to go bad and bad team to go good and for
good team to go bad and then to go good again could quite
possibly do starting on Thursday night against
the cowboy one key piece that they make it back Alvin Kamara who
is missed three straight games and he's been a a huge absence
for that offense limited participant in practice on
Monday with a knee injury if they can get him back Chris
he's the offense right now he's a hundred percent call
Jared Cook and I know there's no Emmanuel Sanders they had
last year to round out the group you're right I mean
there's this is lack of continuity and the one thing
that they had going for them was Camaro
do the place he makes you special he really is and of
course Sean Payton's amazing at getting the ball in the Run
game and the pass game they need him and I'll move because
of all these are the circumstances surrounding this
team they really do it
would be a big boost for them to have them this week but
we'll see I mean it sounds like it's dicey still