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Less excuses this year with CMac mostly healthy.

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I agree with you that the players are out of Dennis Allen's control, which is the same thing as saying Dennis Allen has lost control of his players.

I get that we are not getting dominated but we are not dominating anyone either. A team that cannot dominate Atlanta, Carolina, Minnesota, or Seattle is not going to win a Super Bowl. So if we don't have what it takes to win it all, and we don't have the cap space or draft picks to get there next year, what we need to do is rebuild.

Loomis didn't steal my sweetie, he stole my Sundays, and is threatening to do so for the rest of the decade. We have journeyman QBs, one of the oldest rosters in the league, no first round pick to look forward to in April. Thats what that idiot stole. Terry Fontenot has made some bad moves in Atlanta like wasting the 4th overall pick on tight end, but at least he sees his team needs to rebuild and took the $ 40 million cap hit to clear dead space and make room for the future. Mickey Loomis is setting us up to get dominated by Atlanta for years because yeah we beat them by a hair now, but only after they kept their draft picks and cleared their dead cap that sets them up to beat us big in the future. When your rival is making hard choices and sacrificing the present to rebuild and your team is maxing out all cap space and draft assets to win now and damn the future and the two teams look to be on the same level, that is a bad sign for the future. I fear Fontenot may have been the only voice of reason in the room and ever since he left what good personnel moves have we made with the lunatics running the asylum? Trading our 1st? Max deal for Taysom Hill after concussion and foot injury so we can get the occasional highlight reel game against a gutter defense? Going into 2020 with no receivers? Trading CDG for nothing? Ignoring Marcus Mayes dual threat injury history and discipline issues?

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To be honest, it's on you if you let Loomis, or anyone for that matter, steal your Sundays. I for one enjoy my Sundays whether the Saints win or lose. How do I accomplish that? Mainly by not searching for any and every reason to be pissed off. When we win I am excited we won and happy that I have the opportunity to watch my Saints play, whether on TV or in person. When we lose I am disappointed, but still happy that I have the opportunity to watch my Saints play, whether on TV or in person. I don't let anyone "steal" my simple pleasure.

I'm sorry, but I only see one person stealing your Sundays, Bako.

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But Bako, hardly ANY team is dominating. Again, look at Tampa (preseason favorites) needing the refs to bail them out. Rams (last years Champs) looked ugly this weekend. Only teams with stable QBs like Bills and Chiefs are “dominating”. The game just doesn’t work that way. It’s a long season. Both of Giants SBs under Eli Manning were won as wildcard teams that struggled during regular season. I understand wanting to win but, outside of Billichik/Brady NO organization overcomes the bar you’ve set.

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Agreed! This can steal a man's Sundays.

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Although, I disagree with the overall theme of this thread I do agree with what you said about Taysom being an absolute Beast! He was the correct call for the coaches to make this week and it's about time. We needed some kind of a shake up on this offensive play calling. He was definitely the spark that we needed.

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Limited info and insight into real time drives certain individual to express their bias with reguard to personnel injuries, trades,draft and front office operations. We can all having differing opinions but there are those that bring every issue in large part down to front office having or keeping injury prone personnel.

We had an all star left take who never played a complete
season. We miss his play but made that decision based on dollars vs availability. We had a plan to replace him but that development was delayed by an injury, a foot injury.

Look around the league at the injuries that are affecting literally every team early in the season. Could this be to the lack of contact in the off-season and training camp mandated by the NFL? And some teams not playing any starters during preseason game not even a single series.

Reguardless of why or whose fault MT was away for the time he was away from the team, participated in no contact drills in the offseason and did not play in preseason was probably reasonable and nessesary cautious approach to bring him back into playing shape.

Now a foot injury, foot injury for MT, these and ankle injuries seem to be happening across the league.

The league while trying to control aggression surrounding the QB position and stricter enforcement of defense player calls and Head to Head contact. The rest of the game is faster with stronger athletes playing all out, the speed and strength of every position has increased especially on Special Teams.

If a player is injured calling him Pu$$ie because he’s not on the field is short sighted.

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I did not complain we are not dominating, I complained we are not dominating anyone. The word anyone adds a lot of meaning. Our biggest win is 7 points over a bad team in a shootout after their punter inexplicably decided he could be Adrian Peterson and was wrong. I am not saying we need to be the Bills or Chiefs. I am saying that if every game is a battle and we play multiple bad teams and cant dominate any of them, we are probably not contender. The Bucs dominated the Cowboys 19-3 and played us even the first half then clearly dominated us in the second half. We are not on a different level than the Falcons and Panthers we are on the same level and that is not a playoff level. Are the refs partly to blame? Absolutely. But those refs are not taking the playoffs off, in fact they are just getting warmed up for the playoffs. We need to be able to dominate at least some teams to contend against playoff teams and playoff refs. We are not there. To get there I believe we need to accept rebuilding.

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I believe we can get there by actually being able to play all of our key players.

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Fair enough. I notice you’ve not addressed the points I’ve brought up about the lack of playing time the “Starting Unit” has ever had playing together. You don’t think that impacts continuity? You honestly think a backup team playing with walk on RBs, and WRs due to injuries as well as third string DBs should be dominating any other NFL teams? Especially with the refs screwing them? I think that is unrealistic. That’s just me maybe.