jeanpierre

Not trying to be a glass half-empty guy, but the Pats, S'Hawks and Rams game are gonna be a B***H! I wouldn't put those in the W column so fast, my friend...

The Pats and S'Hawks are each on the back-end of road trips and at opposite ends of the country; and we've not fared well in St. Louis since leaving the NFC West; and they've since gotten much better...

As always a real indication of the season will be the Division games where we will have to sweep the Bucs and at least split with both ATL and CAR to have a chance at the division; actually, the NFC South Champ will finish no less than 5-1...

But, I'd circle the 49ers game, that will be the Biggest Tell of the Season!!!

It well tell if we've got the talent to geaux toe-to-toe with Clubber Lang's Krewe and will test our mettle if we've gotten Football Tough...

We HAVE to Knock the Snot Out of 'em in our House!

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

WillSaints81

The rams, we play them week 15. When I see the rams schedule it isnt easy. I see StL regressing because their team changed. They no longer have Jackson, Pead will not be as good as him and defenses will shift their focus to stopping Bradford. Arizona's pass defense will be a problem week 1 and rams better hope Palmer isnt a much better upgrade over Kolb or what they had last year at qb. Then they go to Atlanta and Dallas followed by a TNF game against SF. They have to win their home games against Zona, SF, and Jacksonville. Then it gets tougher, they go to Houston, Carolina, host Seattle in primetime, then Tennessee on that short rest, Carolina's weakness is most defintely not against the pass unless its Brees. They shut down Rivers in SD. Bradford is not ready to win in Charlotte and the best I see here is 1-3. Meaning rams start at best 4-5 if they win four of their five home games, the five days rest will not work against Seattle and a rested Titans. In fact both Seattle and Tennessee come off longer rest than six days. They could lose both. Then its off to Indy before the bye and here come the bears and b2b road trips to SF and Zona. They will have to beat the bears and sweep a improved Zona again. I don't see both. So by week 15 the rams at the most will look to be 5-8 or 6-7. If the saints are better record wise by three games then they will win.

As for pats........this is one I have thought of. I kind of feel its best to hold a lot back against bears to have more ready for the pats. I think that will happen. Bears will also be desperate for a win as I see them losing the previous two games.

And no question if SP has to choose between playing all you got against SF or Atlanta.....its going to be Atlanta. I know we want to beat SF but we want to beat Atlanta more! Can we win both? Maybe we could have last year. But the TNF game we just were too tired and not having enough rest may have been why. And besides I don't think SF gets in next year.

Seattle is on a night saints have played their best football ntm saints will have some extra rest and only be off by three days compared to Seattle's off their bye. Though I believe this might be a loss.

That is if we play like we need to.

The Dude

Ok lets not get ahead of ourselves.

curlylouis

Nice predictions although, I think I would trade outcomes between the away Atl game and the St. Louis game. Under Payton we have struggled against the Rams and I think the Saints would be more motivated to beat Atl in Atl this time around considering the 'hospitality' the falcons fans showed them the last time they were in town. I think I would also give the Saints an L against Seattle. Seattle does have a tough home crowd. Bottom line: It's all on the defense. If the defense looks good, then we can talk about a 10+ win season.

Halo

I think winning or losing to Seattle depends on weather they're playing inspired football or not. They're a good team but still suffer from mixed personalities.

Saintaintso

We Owe The Rams , Seahawks and 9ers a good ole Blank whippin , I think we will give them just that ...

In alot of these predictions I saw a very evenly matched team so I went with the the three most telling signs of which is the better team ...

Who has the Better QB , Who Has the Better Head Coach , lastly who has the most Veterans ...

westbankdaze

I don't care what happens next season with the exception of ONE thing. We had better get our revenge on the niners - they are due big time, and I'm not talking about just the last two years. I remember the Montana days and I'm still pissed off.

xan

How bad was our defense last year? Who's starting as tackles? Have any linemen played 3-4 against a pro offense? Is Drew going to throw as many unforced interceptions, AGAIN?

When's our first preseason game?

spkb25

Tampa is going to be better
St. Louis is too
Games with Atlanta are always tough

SaintGup

Especially when Brees broke the all-time record for passing yards in a single season, eh?
Actually, apart from a few exceptions, I agree. But it might also be tough because we know that even if both teams are at 0-15, it matters so much so we look at it always with more anxiety than most other games.