After the New Orleans Saints game against the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday night, in which they fell by a score of 42-34, running back Alvin Kamara addressed his teammates.
A Report by Tre’Quan Smith
According to Tre’Quan Smith, who is a wide receiver with the Saints, one of the team captains, Alvin Kamara, recently reminded the players that they all needed to hold themselves and their teammates accountable for the mistakes that have led to them starting the season with a record of 2-5. “
According to a quotation attributed to AK, “We need to discover our position.” This mentality of always being on the losing side is not representative of Saints football. “That is not something we are accustomed to at all,” Smith said.
“We need to properly police ourselves, keep ourselves responsible, and hold ourselves accountable, as well as the responsibility of our colleagues to ourselves.”
After having qualified for the postseason in every season from 2017 to 2020 and having come so close to qualifying for the tournament the previous year with a record of 9-8, Smith stated that the club has never been in this situation before.
This comes after having qualified for the postseason in every season from 2017 to 2020. Smith said that it was a feeling that they were not used to experiencing then.
The Saints are not just one of the teams in the league that gets penalized the most, but they also have the worst turnover differential in the National Football League.
The Saints Had An Increase Of Four In This Category
That number increased to four for the Saints when quarterback Andy Dalton added to it on Thursday by throwing three interceptions, bringing the team’s overall total to four.
Smith continued by saying that he had never previously heard of someone approaching the team “in that fashion.” “However, with every loss, we talk about it.” It’s bad, but we have to look forward to the next week,” Smith said after the last sentence.
What AK had to say had a tremendous influence on me, and I was affected by it. It had a significant impact on me as a person.
Since I’ve been a member of the club, we’ve never lost a game, and every single year that I’ve been here, we’ve qualified for the playoffs (with the possible exception of the most recent season).
This year we are participating in the competition; nevertheless, our performance has not been satisfactory. Smith has said that the team is not disintegrating, but that they do need to make an effort to stay together and block out the noise that is coming from the outside.
We are not only mindful of who we are, but also of the fact that we are near one another. We are acutely aware of the mistakes that we are now committing.
He remarked, “We don’t want to make mistakes on purpose, it simply happens, and we don’t appreciate the feeling in our throat right now.” (We don’t want to make errors on purpose.)
Finishing Line
The New Orleans Saints will have to decide who will start at quarterback for the team’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders the following week as Jameis Winston continues to make progress in his recovery from a back injury that has kept him out of action since Week 1.
Winston has been sidelined since Week 1. Winston has said that he is “getting better” and that he needs the time to recuperate; nonetheless, he has voiced his irritation that the process has taken such a long time to complete.