BrooksMustGo

You know, I\'m confused as to which stage of \"the Saints cycle\" we\'re currently in.

Stage 1--we start slow and lose the opener.
Stage 2--we light it up against a good team, bandwagoners rejoice.
Stage 3--we choke to an inferior team, we argue for 1-3 weeks about how it is or isn\'t partly Brooks\' fault.
Stage 4--we rip off 2 straight wins right before fans give up all hope of the playoffs.
Stage 5--we play well until December.
Stage 6--we have a train wreck on one game that we absolutely have to win to get a wild card berth.
Stage 7--everyone is bitter until we start thinking about all the cool free agents that will fix our ailing D.
Stage 8--we sign none of those cool free agents.
Stage 9--everyone is bitter until we start thinking about all the cool players in the draft so we can fix our ailing D.
Stage 10--we argue for months about how it was/wasn\'t the right thing to go get this year\'s version of Sully.
Stage 11--Many predictions of 11-5 or better and heated arguments about the 3-4 guys who pick less than 10-6 as being Carolina fans or something.

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themightyduck

Looks like we skipped Stage 2 and went straight into Stage 3, BMG.

CHACHING

I think we still have a shot at the post-season....If we all rally around Brooks and pray..............

CHACHING

Why aren\'t we playing Henderson????????....Clayton for Tampa seems to be alright.............send the rookie in to get the vets amped....

WhoDat

Clayton is a much better WR. Henderson is still raw, and with the dropsies he supposedly had in training camp, I don\'t blame the coaches for keeping him on the sidelines. There are already two players on the team who are just as fast and more reliable - Stallworth and Lewis. Who do you take off the field to put Henderson on it? Pathon? Not likely. Maybe you play him for Lewis, but Lewis comes up clutch a whole lot when he\'s in as a wideout.