Over the past 10 seasons starting with Haslett and now Payton, I think the Saints started that beginning from being a horrendously bad team to being a good team to being a great team right now as we speak. I think management has a big factor in this, we had a guy like Randy Mueller take the reigns and overnight transform us into a winner in 2000, and yes we may have overachieved under Haslett in 2000 but we may have started a small beginning that led to us the state we are in now. Haslett wasnt a great HC but he does deserve some repsonsibiltiy for our current success, he drafted a good deal of the players on this team right now and made good FA pickups, he just was on the short end of a terrible tragedy like Katrina and the team falling apart on him as a result.

Compare the guys who played for the numerous HC in the first 30 years of the franchise, they didnt win, they didnt draft well, and we had a joke of a owner in Mecom, but I think the past 10 years have been the best I can remember as a Saints fan. We learned how to win, and we learned how to be a good NFL team at long last.