I thought all those were decent decisions.
-- Who else should be back there? They were down at the time and could use a decent return, which Adams had been giving.
-- No timeouts means that they only had time for a few running plays. That's too risky until you're inside the 10 (which is when they ended up running).
-- That worked ok, the problem was the big throw to Colston which wasn't because of the defense giving the receivers room.
--Moran Norris, Delanie Walker...even Crabtree would've been better. remember adams nearly muffed another one on a nearly identical play where he couldnt decide whether to field it or not and decided to just stand directly under the ball and try to run out of the way when it landed with inches of him. it was a dumb play both times and he was lucky to not have muffed two.
--running the ball is NOT risky when your inside the 20, have more than a minute left, and are in four down territory. it really would only take one run to run off a bunch of time or force NO to burn a timeout. they didn't even bother. the last run was good, but they waited too long to go to it.
--they weren't in prevent on the colston throw. i was talked about the two or three plays before that. the saints started inside their own 20 and the niners fell back to give them anything they wanted within 10 yards or so, meaning the saints could get to midfield in no time at all, letting them set up the rest of the drive with time to burn. as madden says (i think it was madden), the only thing the prevent d prevents is you from winning.
anyways it was a great game overall, and even without those mistakes the saints might easily have won anways
i'd also add that 0-2 this year feels much better than 2-0 last year. this team looks more talented than since the mooch days, and having a full coaching staff return should help us enormously. i think we can easily go 5-0 in the divison the rest of the way and sniff 10 wins. nfc west is still ours to lose