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4 out of the 5 turnovers we had resulted in 4 tds for the ravens.....
let's see. 35minus28 carry the one substract the ankle, add the humiliation, multiply the running game and divide the saints equal a win of at least 4 tds.........
it's just a game........
nothing went right...........but we did not give up.........
man, you people, and i say that with a tony attitude, opps, let me correct that,
you'ss people......need to chill..............
this is absolutely a new and exciting saints team........
enjoy them while you can......
this is the best i've ever felt about going deep in the playoffs.......
maybe not this yr, but then again, maybe..........
either way, i've never felt this way about our saints, and i like it.........smitty

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Ha good thing you weren't here right after the game. You had fans bailing left and right, saying that we were right back to being the same ol Saints. I've been a fan for 20 years myself, and I think that's long enough to have dealt with the Saints futility. Even still I can tell the difference between this years' team and the Saints of old. This is a different group with few ties to that old group. We are on our way. This was a setback to be sure, but we'll learn from it.

The playing scared, playing not to lose instead of to win, playing inconsistent and making tons of mental errors in fundementals that made this year's team look like Saints teams of the past.

some could say we overachieved so far this year.

I think the Saints overachieved so far this season, I felt that the Saints were going to win 7 to 9 games but I didn't see a 5-2 start, I'm loving it though.
IMO this Saints team only goes up from here, they will improve as a team each game, the Ravens was a step backwards, hopefully we'll get that step back playing the Bucs this weekend.

True Dat.
For me, anything above 5 wins is Lagniappe!
A collapse now would be difficult to swallow after the 5-1 start.
But, the '06 Saints have already met my expectations for this season.
I am very proud of this team. :cheering:

As am I. We still have work to do to meet my goals for the team from the preseason. I offered that splitting with each of our division rivals and beating each of the 4th place teams from last year would show progress. Each of our 5 wins so far fit that profile. The 3 4th place teams (Cleveland, Green Bay, and Philly) and division teams (Atlanta and Tampa Bay) show that we can beat teams we are supposed to beat and compete in our division.

Of course I want more now. Sweeping Tampa is first on the agenda. We also need to win out against the AFC North. And of course I'd like to see nothing more than to take Atlanta down for the season sweep.

We're still in it. It was a bad game from the first fumble back to the Ravens by Bush in the first quarter. Payton gave the rookie too much to do.

It happens. Take the loss and move on.

SFIAH

Lets not forget that Baltimore has one hell of a defense. Yes we made some mistakes, but I don't think we gave up at all. I think we were all looking through rose colored glasses after the philly game. They have a good defense. Baltimore had a great defense who has been great against the run and great at causing turnovers. This was probably our toughest out of division matchup. I think we have definitly exceeded expectations already this year. Preseason, looking at this schedule, I would have been happy with 6 wins. You have to look at our team and see that we are finaly headed in the right direction. We are still a few peices away but you have to be encouraged by Payton's player evaluation skills and know he will get the right players. I am still excited as hell about our future.

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Goldrush
[/quote]Ha good thing you weren't here right after the game. You had fans bailing left and right, saying that we were right back to being the same ol Saints. I've been a fan for 20 years myself, and I think that's long enough to have dealt with the Saints futility. Even still I can tell the difference between this years' team and the Saints of old. This is a different group with few ties to that old group. We are on our way. This was a setback to be sure, but we'll learn from it.[/quote]

The fans gave up on this team. If the players had acted the same way they same group would have lynched them. The 12th man gave up. that does effect the team. sorry gang but true.

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TAMPA BAY HERE WE COME!!!! GEAUX SAINTS BABY!!!!!

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jesus f^*()g christ!!!! no one "gave up" on anyboy!!!!! get a clue!! it's called cautious optimism.... got it?! you two sound like a broken record, and oh by the way gold rush, no gives a rat's ass whether you've been a fan for 20 years or 20 minutes, it makes you no smarter, better, more devoted, etc. than anyone else here.... i guess it makes you feel better to act like you're "enduring the struggle" rather than voicing your concern or dissatisfaction... whatever....

Sorry. But I have the patent on that.
You will hear from my attorneys. :P

sorry.... didn't mean to cramp your style rms.... that's the only phrase that describes how i feel about the saints

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You just made my point for me. I have been a fan just as long as most of the other fans on here.

This is exactly why I was so shocked at how despondent and down a lot of people were on the Baltimore game, as if we haven't endured far more humiliating losses than that. This wasn't Tim Couch beating us on a hail mary pass to get his first win. This wasn't Joey Harrington torching us for 250 yards and 3 TDs or whatever. This was a well respected, established team with an outstanding defense. Of course I wanted us to win and was highly disappointed about losing, as I am with losing any game. However stepping back and looking at the game and who we were facing, I can accept the loss.

Maybe I was out of line for saying people were giving up on the team. I just wish folks could look at things from a football standpoint instead of saying things like "here come the same ol Saints", and you can't deny that there was a lot of that going on this past week. NOTHING about this team resembles anything of the years past other than the fact that they wear the same uniforms.

As if we don't have enough outsiders taking shots at us, we have to take shots at our own team???

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whether it resembles the "past saints" or not, it's still possible that a team goes on a roll early on in the season, then looks at the standings and figures they can drop a couple of games and then before you know it, they miss the postseason b/c they dropped one too many games.... i DO NOT want that to happen to us.... i'm ecstatic that we were 5-1 and was still very, very happy that were 5-2, but at the same time, was very cautious that the players and fans may feel that we had a "cushion" of games that would be ok to drop, when really we didn't.... i have never, and will never give up on the saints.... if i've come this far, why, esp. w/ the infusion of exciting, talented players, would i give up on them now, when they are 5-2 and in first place of the nfc south? i was expressing concern, but not writing them off completely....

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taking shots? maybe.... constructive criticism... definitely...

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i wasn't humiliated with the loss to the ravens, as much as i was upset that we killed ourselves... that happened last year with haslett's team, but for this year's team to do the same, i was taken aback and pissed off at the same time... i felt like someone had played a cruel joke on me, like they let a good team sub for the saints for a couple of weeks and then replaced them w/ the real saints vs. the ravens.... maybe a little premature, but i'd rather get concerned and voice it now, rather than cry about it at the end of the regular season watching some teams other than my beloved saints in the playoffs