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Merry Christmas Who Dat Nation!

I really hope that all of you have had a wonderful Christmas week.  Growing up in Chicago, I can tell you that I’ve never experienced such a warm Christmas week!  The weather was awesome on Tuesday when we had the day off.  It was a great day to finish up my Christmas shopping.

Well……like every other week, I’ll start the blog off with some thoughts on the previous week’s game.  I wish I were able to title this week’s blog 14-0, but we just didn’t get the job done.  I’m sorry Who Dat Nation!

We worked hard all last week preparing for the game.  I thought we did a good job of blocking out all the media and hype surrounding the game.  Unfortunately, we beat ourselves on Saturday night.  We just didn’t play a balanced game.  We should have been running the ball alot more than we did.  Every week, we talk about needing a quick jump-start when we take the field, and we’re just not doing that.  I give Dallas credit…..they came into the game and took advantage of our mistakes and turnovers to win the game.

I’m just glad that we are identifying our problems now so that we can really focus on fixing them as we head into the playoffs.  There are no other guys in the league that I would want to enter the playoffs with.  We have great guys on this team.  We’re all on the same page.  We know what we need to fix, and we’re working on fixing these things!

So, this Sunday we return to the Dome for our final regular season home game.  Oh yeah……..Thanks to every single Who Dat that was in the Dome last Saturday night!  You guys were AWESOME!  After the game, alot of the national reporters were saying it was the loudest sports venue they’d ever been in.  You guys had that place ROCKIN’!  Thank you!!!!

Keep it up this Sunday and then again when we host the playoffs!  You guys really help us out, I hope you know it!

So, Sunday we’ll take on Tampa.  I know their record says they’ve only won two games, but they really looked good in their last game.  We’ll take Sunday as an opportunity to focus on fixing some of our “problems”.  We really have to work on ball control and turnovers.  We need to patch up a few things with our defense, and of course………..we really need to make sure everyone is healthy.  If we win on Sunday, then we secure home field advantage through the playoffs!  That would be HUGE for us, the way you guys get the Dome Rockin’!

So……I’ll just close by sharing with you guys about the two bowling fundraisers I attended in the last week.  First was Peja Stojakovic’s bowling fundraiser to benefit his foundation.  It was last Thursday when it was torrentially downpouring.  Peja invited me to attend and I  made it out there.  I didn’t bowl, but I spent some time visiting with the guests and some of the Hornets players.  It was a great event that raised alot of money to go right back into the New Orleans community.  Peja told me that his foundation re-furbished a basketball court in Orleans Parish with proceeds from the success of this year’s event.

Also, Monday night, Robert Meachem had a bowling fundraiser.  I went out and took part in that.  It was another nice event.

Alright…..I’m gonna go relax.  It’s been a great Christmas Day and I hope that all of you have had a wonderful Christmas!

Who Dat!

Pierre Thomas #23

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