Re: What the Lions loss means
 

I sat there having flash backs to saints teams of old. Amazing myself at what creative way will we lose this one.

BUT unlike saints teams of the past this is a good team shooting themselves in the foot time and time again.

What this means is some where in the near future the Saints will blow there feet off so they have nothing left to shoot and this ship will right itself and the wins will come.

So the goal #1 is the same today as it was at the beginning of the season. Win the South! that is still in our reach even if we limp into it.

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7-9 could actually win this division. And you know what a division winner gets? A first round home game. Could history repeat itself? It does happen.

We are due to get hot. I'd much rather get hot around the half-way point than starting off a season. We were 2 or so plays away from winning easily on the road.

But the question is: What is this a sign of? A team getting close to hitting a great stride, or a team expecting to choke away ballgames with 2 or so plays a game?

Let's hope it's the first one...

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To me it doesn't really mean squat. The team I saw today can beat any other crappy team in our division and that's all that really counts.
We can get a home playoff game and start clicking when we need to. Every year a team gets hot at the right time. Hell the Giants did it and win 2 Super Bowls.

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I said that after we kicked the FG to go up 23-10 with 5 minutes left...you could just feel it. A TD to make it 27-10 with 5 minutes left would have been the nail in the coffin that our 13-3 or 11-5 teams made.

We can't afford to keep depending on ATL & CAR losing constantly; we have to start taking this division on our own. It starts next Sunday.

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Im not counting this team out.... we had this game until 4 minutes left and played good football against the #1 Defense in the NFL... I had a bad feeling as soon as Tate ran that TD.... refs didnt help anything ... Its not over

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Well on a positive note, Shane Graham is 9 for 10 on field goals! Hot damn boys, we finally got us a consistent kicker!!

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I like the optimism but you could say the same tjing about all of our loses aside from Dal. We have been a few plays away from being 5-1. We deserve our record because we can't close games out and we refuse to not make stupid mistakes.

I wish the team would just tank already so I could lose all hope. Then I wouldn't care about losing and could focus on the draft.

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Receivers are not getting open, they aren't making the difficult catches. Brees is making mental errors, defense is good for most of the game and then they take a nap, the team is not hungry anymore, some key players got the big bucks and the desire is not there anymore.

Still way better than the 30 early years I watched when a victory over the Falcons made the season. Expectations were way HIGH so the fall is a long drop.

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Brees threw for 350yds and had TWO 100+yd receivers yesterday. I wouldn't pin this on receivers.

Defense broke down late.
O line broke down late.
Brees broke down late.
Coaches broke down late.

ANOTHER late loss by the entire team.

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This team just doesn't know how to be consistently good. They have moments of greatness throughout the game but never get that killer instinct. In 3 of our losses this year we could have won just by being consistent.