TheOak

I think some are looking at the Wild Card spot as it has been for the NFC in previous years as something you need to be 12-4 to get. There have been huge upsets in the NFC pretty much each week that will come back to haunt other teams as much as ours will come back to haunt us.

I know this is HUGELY premature but... Odds have us still in the hunt at 1-4. ( just realized this was up and running all season.)
NFL.com - Playoff Picture

We are 0-1 in the Division.. beat the Bucks and we jump 3 spots. Thankfully we are pulling our sh1t together before we have played all but one Division game.

There are going to be some crazy azzed tie breakers this year. mark my words.

Yes, EVERYONE is still in the hunt. Including the Saints.

Fat lady sit down.

Danno

And possibly 3 or 4 way ties, which can negate a head to head victory.



It ain't over... if we keep winning that is.

Budsdrinker

Just when Kromer starts to get some fire in him is reign as head coach will be over. He was screaming at the OL on the bench after one series and talking to the Dline on another occasion Sunday night. It was good to see.

TheOak

That probably part of the success. He has been playing HC and not screaming at the linemen.

Linemen need to be screamed at.

SaintsBro

Speaking of screaming at people -- the other thing I keep touting about Vitt coming back, is you have to look at Vitt's role when Payton is here. He is NOT just a position-oriented, subordinate linebackers coach with one job, like Kromer is. Vitt is Payton's Mr. Fix It -- if there is a problem or situation, Vitt is like quality control, a detail person, take this thing and make such-and-such happen -- if someone needs chewing out, if someone is underperforming, if mental mistakes keep happening, if some problem with the team needs to be figured out in the film room and fixed before next week, Payton sends Vitt to do it. Remember the narrative of the bounty stuff, Payton instructed Vitt "to keep an eye on" Williams. He's like a quality control and detail-oriented guy. That's actually his main deal, FIXING PROBLEMS and getting ___ done that needs to happen. And as a coach, he has seen it all before.

Having that guy in the Mr. Fix It mode, to make problems disappear like Wolf from Pulp Fiction ("That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten") is going to improve the team greatly.

TheOak

Go big or go home

15-4

TheOak

I think Danno is making a logical prediction, not an emotional wish. If you just look at the Saints performance I tend to think your right and wrong at the same time. Yes the numbers from week one until now are correct... But the trend tells a different story.

Week 1 - Game up 40
Week 2 - Gave up 35
Week 3 - Gave up 27
Week 4 - Gave up 27
Week 5 - Gave up 24

I do not care about yards, we are mid league in Red Zone. If you scratch Week 1 we ave 28.25 PPG.. 25th in the league.

We all knew Spags defense would take a few games to start to gel, and it has.

Now look at the remainder of our games:
Tampa Bay x2
Denver
Philadelphia
Atlanta x2
Oakland
San Francisco
NYG
Dallas
Carolina

I only see San Francisco being a probable loss and NYG being very difficult considering how they play late in the season. Denver will be interesting but not a battle royal.

We are 1-4 now... By week 16 that puts us 12-6. No 9 game winning streak needed. We have also seen that with the exception of Atlanta and Houston, everyone is dropping should have won games. Atlanta's time is coming, I think they peaked too early in the season, Houston lost Cushing and they will be a problem for them.

darksoul35

Can somebody tell me what happens if we have a better division record than the Falcons but they are better over all.They would still win the division?

Utah_Saint

Yes. Overall record decides the division
If there is a tie then head to head match up
And then division win %
Then common opponents win %
then conference win %
If there's still a tie, then there is a battle to the death between back up quarterbacks using mutually agreed upon hand held weapons.

Or at least I think that's how the tie breakers work.

(Edit: Ok scratch that last one, it turns out "Strength of Victory" means something totally different)

Srgt. Hulka

Y'all are just trying to get my hopes up...again.