The Report, high school confidential edition
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Claude Coupee
Lead Correspondent
I don’t think it’s that I’m spoiled, feeling for the first 24 hours or so afterwards like the triumph was a defeat. Sunday night, with grim determination over an eked-out win over a bottom-feeder that only cost us, oh, a critical piece of our defense as CB Tracy Porter MUST have been knocked out for the season with that knee injury, I was steeling myself for the reality that while more trouble was surely coming in the days ahead, we had bought some breathing room with a 9-0 start, and even if we ended up 13-3 with the no. 2 NFC seed, we’d have more than a puncher’s chance in an NFCCG in Minnesota in January.
But these are most assuredly not your father’s Saints, especially if your father was Ernie Hefferle.
In a miracle of Lourdesian proportions, now it turns out that Porter might well be back for the playoffs, which, if we get a first-round bye, don’t start for nine weeks. And other key players (DT Sedrick Ellis, CB Jabari Greer, FD Darren Sharper) surely will be back no later than when the Patriots show up 12 days hence.
By then, surely, we will have shaken off this mid-season turnover funk that almost caused us to lose, my god, a game here.