In This Era, the Saints Don’t Make the Rules
 

The best summation of the Saints’ zeitgeist between 2009 and 2011 was the classic Moosedenied post “We make the rules, pal.” The line was an expression of confidence: 2009 quickly became about watching a great team win a championship, not about wondering if that team was great or could win a championship, and that feeling bled into the next two seasons, buoyed by the Saints’ all-the-records offense in 2011. Here’s how we felt, said Grandmaster Wang:


We’re in this thing for us. Nobody else. Definitely not you. And if our achieving those goals leaves you humiliated and outraged, that’s your problem. Deal with it. Clutch your pearls if you must, but you’d be better served to grow a pair instead.

All true, and not even the Saints’ playoff losses in Seattle and San Francisco after the 2010 and 2011 regular seasons could put a stop to it. We’d reload and, like a hurricane that seems to ignore the atmospheric conditions and steering currents around it, do whatever the hell we wanted. Nothing, not even the antics of Marshawn Lynch or Vernon Davis, that happened on the field changed our mind. But our mindset doesn’t affect the win column.

So the NFL’s commissioner changed the mindset of the guy who does.

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Re: In This Era, the Saints Don’t Make the Rules
 

Cute article.

I agree with it for the most part. What this author is missing was Payton didn't call the plays in 2011. He kept referencing that year as paytons glory days but the truth is Carmichael should own the success that year.

Short version of the article. ..
Times have passed payton by and he is too predictable but its not to late to change.

Re: In This Era, the Saints Don’t Make the Rules
 

Awesome.

On the defensive side, this turnover drought is unbearable, since that is a symptom of a bad defense. Our Middle Linebackers do not help matters, either. Not quick enough or athletic enough to defend the pass...we saw that last night with Brees' INT. Linebacker deflected the pass for the pick, but we do not have that luxury.

Yet we simply do not draft linebackers in the 1st or 2nd round. Last one was Mark Fields in 1995. 19 years. Wrap your head around that one.