One preseason game down and two to go before the Saints open their regular season. So what do the Saints need to correct after their 27-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers?
Saints play-by-play announcer Mike Hoss has several ideas.
"I want to see a clean game," Hoss said about Sunday's game when speaking with WWL's Newell Normand. "Guess what: that was far from a clean game. It felt so much like last season: third-and-19, third-and-20, you make a good play, (and a) penalty brings it back. You do something good, but on the other side of the field, there's a defensive holding--automatic first down. They've got to clean it up." Hoss said.
According to Hoss, the Saints' joint practice on Thursday with the Los Angeles Rams will help the team improve in those areas.
"You get a lot of phenominal work out of joint practices," Hoss said. "It's like a game, but you do your situational stuff. You do fourth down. You do (the) two-minute (drill). You do all that stuff. It's basically a preseason game."
Hoss says the coming week will help the coaching staff decide who will stay and who will go when the staff makes cuts and forms the team's 53-man roster.
"You're talking about a Rams practice and the Jacksonville game to make some pretty key decisions about your depth chart and who's going to be where," Hoss said. "That has to happen in the next week. The joint practice will be Thursday, and the Jacksonville game is Sunday."
The Saints' next preseason game is set for Sunday at noon in the Superdome against the Jacksonville Jaguars. You can listen to it on WWL.