Congrats to Browns
 

You laid a nice wet one in the Superdome and left a stain on the Turf.

Here most of us thought the Saints finally turned it around, and getting back some defensive weapons we thought we were even more improved and you guys show up and bring us back down to earth again..

Cardinals found that same element and drilled it in us hard.

Do whatever you did today and win out otherwise this game is just a fluke and it shows proof that Saints kicked their own asses and you had nothing to do with it..

I personally think Brees and the O-line is what let this team down today, the D also didn't play their game, no strips and browns was nearly able to run at will on us..
We were also out coached..

But thats my opinion. use the poll and the thread to settle this debate.

I came to think about one thing, why doesn't O-line players in th NFL cut block more?

Offense was offensive. O-line, drew, peee-youu!

Brittany had a baby, Drew laid an egg. The Madden curse is alive, well and real. Drew should have been benched at 30-10, Payton must have him on his fantasy team.

Penalties and zebras killed us too.

We got outcoached thoroughly.

No Greer, Porter, Shanle, Bush, Pierre...

Cleveland has a solid O line that pushed us around all day.

Also Browns played hard and did a great job.

I can't go with that excuse, we still should have been able to handle BROWNS!

People say they are better than their record but we are the DEFENDING WORLD CHAMPIONS! and we have Drew Brees!
Drew Brees ended up being our Achilles heel, The O-line that use to protect him and was able to hold up pretty well, fell to pieces, the coaching was pathetic to the point i felt like i could go out there and do better..
I really believe we gave this game to them, we fell over ourselves, threw horribly, and defended just good enough not to be completely dominated in our home.

If those players being out is the reason we are losing i think we are in some tremendous trouble with depth and thats also the coaching fault.

I hate to say it because I love brees for everything he's brought for us, but it was his fault. I don't understand how he threw the pick to fujita, was a dumbass throw! Was the worst performance I have ever seen! It looks line a mixture of the madden curse and the NFC south worst to first curse. Brees and the O need to look at themselves and sort this thing out

Looks like the Madden curse strikes again! Aside from that too many mistakes and we were out coached. And their special teams blew ours out of the water. They made us look like 1 and 5 team rather than defending champs. I'm afraid we are looking like the 2008 Saints that looked like a different team every weekend, no consistency.:(

Damn 76 after seeing your avatar I'm suddenly overcome with a backfield in motion reference and totally unconcerned about the loss.

The funny thing is.......
 

Hartley is probably saying to himself...."Finally, it's not my fault".

Your not wrong... This one is on the O, badly!!

I think everyone of them sucked equally. As a team they blew completely.

At the sametime i don't want to take any of this loss from the Browns, they did their job to take advantage of our errors and put their foot in our butts.

Every loss is a combo-loss...just like every win is a combo-win. Its true, some players play a bigger part than others, but everyone has to do their job for us to get solid wins. The Browns had people in all the right places, which means they weren't in other places, which is where we should have been going. No matter how you write it up or scheme it out, its still 11 on 11, and they did a better job with their eleven. Poor decisions and poor execution produced poor results. That's the way it works.

My Take:

Special Teams (Greg McMahon): Is it the players or the Special Teams Coach. Our punt team was not prepared for the lateral. That being said, after that play everyone watching the game should have known the Browns were going to do the unexpected. The fake punt should have been the first thing to come to mind when the Browns were going to punt. Greg McMahon should have warned them about the unexpected... which should have become the expected.

They were all asleep at the wheel.

Drew/Sean Payton: Any father worth his salt as a father should have and would have been tired on Sunday, just 4 days after his son was born.
Chase Daniel should have started by default. Drew looked tired and un-rested. Under thrown passes, poor judgment, frustration, he should have never been on the field.

Offensive Line: Drew was sacked multiple times, backs were tackled in the backfield for losses, Ivory got stuffed as soon as the ball was in his hands. He played better than his numbers.

Penalties: Only a true dumbazz gets a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, when the original penalty was blatant and he knew he was guilty.




Referees: I will start this by saying, we played like crap and i am not blaming the refs for our loss or bad play. HOWEVER.... Where did the NFL find these guys? The call on Sharper was NOT a penalty, and do these guys actually know what is, and what is not a reviewable play?

If the smell would come over the computer, that would have been a perfect description of the game.

It may not be a popular idea but I believe it's a large part of the problem.

defense played well enough to win this game. its all of the rest. the browns played with a fire. and we did'nt on the 0