I was feeling fairly confident until Pierre was ruled out. He keeps so many drives alive. I expect we'll be telegraphing plays all day with Ingram = run and Sproles = pass.
This will be the third playoff game Pierre has missed and we lost the other two. This really sucks.
Saints averaged, what like 33 points in those two games? I'll take that now.
They also were without him games 4-13 in 2010 and they went 8-2.
More than doable.
Doable, sure, any game any day is doable. But I went from confident to pessimistic. I think Pierre is the catalyst for a lot of what Payton wants to do. Without him and with these receivers being largely absent all year, I wonder who the heck is going to step up and convert those two or three extra third downs Pierre always gives us when the chips are down. Maybe Lance Moore.Either way, I just wish we had our best back for once on these road games we're supposedly incapable of winning.
I know the news hit the city like a bombshell yesterday but c'mon a little too much deflation going on here. Hey the defense lost those games, or more specifically Gregg Williams' calls in those two games. It was a blow when Pierre left the 9ers game, but then that was a dirty hit, a surprise, and he was going to be a big part of the offense that day. This year the Saints have been practicing all week without him and have likely been planning to be without him. These Eagles have very little to nothing in common with the style of football played by SF and Seattle.
I also think no time like the present, this team is about challenges and breaking records and benchmarks. Well, here's as big of a one as they could want. Payton has buried every bad Saints gris-gris but this one.
I think Sproles can fill Pierre's role ably and I will add it's about time they use him more fully. He'll be fresh, we know that much, and maybe they were intending to use him all along here and maybe that's why they have had him in reserve, we shall see.
Do you remember that Seattle game? Reggie Bush dropped a sure fire TD (one of several mistakes that cost them that game) and spent much of the game on the bench with one of those mystery injuries he gets. The next year Bush is
gone, and the Saints get who? Sproles. Pierre goes out vs the 9ers and guess what, they were ready, Sproles went 15/119/1 receiving. Huge day against a championship quality defense.
No reason this offense can't push it down the field.
My post was just shorter. 
Sometimes R Diddy says things we don't want to hear!
