Outstanding analysis.

This is the reason I put these games on my list. Collectively, along with the other 3 division games, they will define the 2024 season for the Saints. If it goes badly:
0-3
1-2
0-2
0-1
----
1-8

Then the season is sunk. However if the Saints can do a little better than treading water:
1-2
2-1
1-1
1-0
----
4-4

Then they have a shot depending on the other 3 division games. But even though this is treading water, this would be a team that can at least can compete because it has wins against upper echelon NFL talent.

It's only going to take 6 weeks to see how the season goes. 1-5 we can write it off. 4-2 or 3-3 especially with 2 division wins means that there is still a chance.

SFIAH

since you all like what you read......

ranked

22. New Orleans Saints
The New Orleans Saints are essentially running it back with the same cast from the 2023 season, albeit with some minor changes. Years of kicking salary-cap problems down the road are finally starting to catch up to New Orleans. Realistically, this team just doesn’t have the talent or youth to be viable in the NFC. Expect Dennis Allen to be featured prominently on the hot seat this fall.

*the hot seat = possibly winning just enough to remain a contender for the (not so hotly contested) NFC SOUTH, keeping the masochists happy to sing “Kumbaya”, and keeping the seat just hot enough to burn the a$$es of loyal fans, but not hot enough to eject Dennis Allen. Sounds about right.

National ranking people are dismissive of the Saints. They didn't even have the Saints ranked #1 after they won the SuperBowl in 2009 in the preseason of 2010.

We just don't know yet how the same RB corps is going to do in this new offense yet.

The Saints are being ranked low because of the uncertainty. Best believe if they find a way to upset Dallas or KC, those national media people will somewhat change their tune.

How about you see if you can find a bit more positive spin. I know it's hard to do. But I bet there is one out there somewhere.

SFIAH

back in 2009 .... I KNEW the Saints were a team to be reckoned with.... not so today. It is hard to find any positive spin on any Saint reporting because it ain't out there.

And that's fair. But I can't get you guys to see that we see that reporting everywhere. Every national media outlet thinks of the Saints as an afterthough. Most of time it's because they haven't even bothered to take the time to adequately research the team.

The one place I used to be able to get away from that is here. And some folks here are determined to destroy that. That is what has me so fired up.

And you keep bringing up mediocrity. And that simply talking about the current team is somehow an acceptance of it.

I don't how you guys spend all day just talking about how terrible the team and how everybody sucks. All day. Every day. Every post. it's exhausting.

It just want a training camp where we can talk about training camp. I want preaseason games where we just talk about preseason games. I don't need every thread, every post to discuss the Saints supposed disorganization. I don't need to hear your truth every damn day because there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it. Not here. Not anywhere else. That is an issue for January 2025, not today.

I'm tired of being beat with the baseball bats of you guys negativity each and every day.

Just go create your own subforum here where ya'll can ***** and moan to your heart's content and leave the rest of us alone.

SFIAH

Beat with baseball bats? You’re being a bit dramatic.

No I'm not. You expressed your feelings and now I'm expressing mine. I have a feeling this the level of frustration that you feel with the Saints now and the knowledge that it's not going to change for another season at least.

You don't get how mentally draining it is to see trash about the team I follow in a community I've been a part of for more that 20 years each and every day.

It's unrelenting. And worse it's futile because nothing is going to change before January at the very earliest.

SFIAH

National ranking people are dismissive of the Saints. They didn't even have the Saints ranked #1 after they won the SuperBowl in 2009 in the preseason of 2010.

We just don't know yet how the same RB corps is going to do in this new offense yet.

The Saints are being ranked low because of the uncertainty. Best believe if they find a way to upset Dallas or KC, those national media people will somewhat change their tune.

How about you see if you can find a bit more positive spin. I know it's hard to do. But I bet there is one out there somewhere.

SFIAH

“We just don't know yet how the same RB corps is going to do in this new offense yet.”

Well managed teams KNOW.

National ranking people are dismissive of the Saints. They didn't even have the Saints ranked #1 after they won the SuperBowl in 2009 in the preseason of 2010.

We just don't know yet how the same RB corps is going to do in this new offense yet.

The Saints are being ranked low because of the uncertainty. Best believe if they find a way to upset Dallas or KC, those national media people will somewhat change their tune.

How about you see if you can find a bit more positive spin. I know it's hard to do. But I bet there is one out there somewhere.

SFIAH