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Coach Sean Payton's thoughts on the game:
“Obviously, it’s a difficult loss. We didn’t do a lot of things well in that game. We’ll have to come back on a short week now and get ready to play another real good football team at home on Sunday. We have to do a better job as coaches, starting with me. There are too many things that we didn’t do or do well enough, to give ourselves the opportunity to win. Credit Seattle, they made the plays they needed to and they were certainly the better team tonight.”

Do you immediately put this game behind you and get ready for Sunday:

“Yeah, as best you can. It takes a little bit of time but I think the key is the short schedule. Coming off a game like this, we’ll be sure to get the corrections made. There’s a lot to look at obviously. There are a lot of things that we didn’t do well. So we need to move on to it.”

Did you think the worst when Seattle scored that early touchdown on the fumble:

“Hypothetically, obviously those are plays that swing games but we had opportunities. We felt like we had some opportunities late in the second quarter. We got the score but we just didn’t do enough offensively. We certainly didn’t do enough in converting third downs and staying on the field. Defensively we had problems stopping them (Seattle) in the first half. In the kicking game, I thought that we were below average as well.”

How big a factor was the crowd noise:

“The first play of the game was a run that went the other direction. Not everyone obviously got the redirect. The noise impacts certain plays. I don’t know if that was the difference tonight. It can be the difference on third down. It can certainly be the difference when it comes to protection but I don’t if I would point to that tonight nor would you point to the weather, really. With everything we prepared and heard about, it ended up being a pretty clear evening.”

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Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

All little common sense goes a long way.

halloween 65

No excuses, we got beat by a very good, well prepared team, it stinks that we looked that bad in just about all phases of the game.

Marlboro Man

Only problem with this assumption is that we're supposed to be a very good team and a well coached and prepared team and we get shown up by a 2nd year QB? Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess. Personally, I was embarrassed, and I think the team should also be embarrassed. You want all the soft, finesse team stuff to go away?? That ain't the way to do it. I tell you what, I wouldn't want to go to war with most of these guys, that's for sure, cause you wouldn't last very long. You can try to put lipstick on a pig all day long, but at the end of the day, it's still a pig.

Mardigras9

Hopefully, this beat down helps refocus the team. Carolina will be licking their chops since, like us, they control their own destiny.

Supertek

Good old fashion A** Whipping they got what they deserved fo playing so poorly. Couldn't catch, throw, run, block, cover you name it sad performance.

jnormand

I would have liked if we gave them a good game but that was pathetic. We will be seeing them again in Seattle in the playoffs so our team better be ready.

joker-saint

Not necessarily, neworleans could end up the number 5 seed and have to play dallas, which would leave seattle playing against either detroit or sanfrancisco. If sanfrancisco makes it you better believe they will play hard and could possibly beat them. In that scenario I believe neworleans could host the nfc championship against sanfrancisco due to best record. I am hoping for this one as we owe the niners big for our last playoff loss to them.

jeanpierre

Joker, I hear what your saying, but that's Ohio State...

I'm an SEC homer that thinks the National Title Game was played this past weekend; best of the best hitting, full speed, week-end/week-out...

For my interests, I want to walk up to the BMF in the house and put it all on the table, knowing I beat the best...

We are a finesse, clever indoor team...

Our O-line lacks the physicality to line up and power rush the football...

Geez, their linebackers were as fast as Darren Sproles...

Lofton ran like he had dookie in his shorts...

Zach Strief, omgosh, looked like a special-ed Sumo Wrestler, D-League...

Terrible, just terrible effort...

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

K Major

Now that sir was funny.

SaintsBro

I'm not sure what the exact scenario would be, but home field in the playoffs is determined by highest seed, not by best record. So if the Saints are #5 seed and SF is anything other than #6 below us, then we would go to SF, not have them come to the Dome. While it's interesting, the SF-in-the-Superdome scenario with us as 5 seed, would require NO home teams to win at home in the two rounds of NFC playoffs, not a single one, until the NFC Championship....that's kinda doubtful.