How a Good team became a Great team

Saintman2884 · 06-07-2007, 12:26 AM

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.

Haslett started it and gave it to Payton to finish it, I dont hate Haslett at all despite some Saints fans who do, the reason being he never stopped trying up until the last season, and even then he still believed somewhat.

Sometimes NFL teams grow up in the FO too, we had Mueller who made the initial success but was careless with what he had done and got fired becuase of it. but then Mickey Loomis, the heir apparent, the man who picked up the ball and ran with it, he has drafted well, got good Fa's, and most importantly won games. A lot of football games. We had two great GM's who made this team good after being bad for so long. Jim Finks being the relative exception of course, we have benefited greatly from becming more mature a team and as that perception has grown, IMHO.

the New Orleans Saints were a bad team for many many years and we didnt try to get better, but what we have done in the past 10 years is grow as a team, as fans, and in doing that we grew from being just a good team to a great team, one whose legacy and legend continues to be discovered

06-07-2007, 12:26 AM	#1
Saintman2884 Rookie Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 29	How a Good team became a Great team 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. Haslett started it and gave it to Payton to finish it, I dont hate Haslett at all despite some Saints fans who do, the reason being he never stopped trying up until the last season, and even then he still believed somewhat. Sometimes NFL teams grow up in the FO too, we had Mueller who made the initial success but was careless with what he had done and got fired becuase of it. but then Mickey Loomis, the heir apparent, the man who picked up the ball and ran with it, he has drafted well, got good Fa's, and most importantly won games. A lot of football games. We had two great GM's who made this team good after being bad for so long. Jim Finks being the relative exception of course, we have benefited greatly from becming more mature a team and as that perception has grown, IMHO. the New Orleans Saints were a bad team for many many years and we didnt try to get better, but what we have done in the past 10 years is grow as a team, as fans, and in doing that we grew from being just a good team to a great team, one whose legacy and legend continues to be discovered
Saintman2884 Rookie Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 29