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Old 10-19-2014, 07:07 PM   #1
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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.

"We may have lost the game, but you'll be hurting tomorrow." Doug Atkins
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Old 10-19-2014, 07:27 PM   #2
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I sat there having flash backs to saints teams of old. Amazing myself at what creative way will we lose this one.
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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Old 10-20-2014, 08:32 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by hagan714 View Post
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.
The Saints of old always managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This team is starting to remind me of the Old Saints. They have a lot more talent, so there is really a fix for this, but if you knew
what it was you could retire early.
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Old 10-19-2014, 07:15 PM   #4
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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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Old 10-19-2014, 07:29 PM   #5
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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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Old 10-19-2014, 11:26 PM   #6
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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
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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Old 10-19-2014, 11:12 PM   #7
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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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Well on a positive note, Shane Graham is 9 for 10 on field goals! Hot damn boys, we finally got us a consistent kicker!!
Even if he banks one in occasionally....
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Old 10-20-2014, 07:43 AM   #9
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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.
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While I 100% agree that because our whole division is full of weak and irrelevant teams we have every opportunity to per the #4 seed and division winner, this still brings me next to no hope for our season.

This team is in chaos mode. We can't put 60 minutes of respectable football together. We are undisciplined, our fundamentals of the game are suspect and we are unable to overcome mistakes. This team needs to be perfect to win and we can't even sniff at perfect.

Even if we make the #4 seed I have such a small level of confidence that we can go on the road and win a game against a weak opponent let alone a top 4 conference team. We'd literally need a team to lose their starting QB just before playing us for me to have faith we could prevail.

I'll still watch it all, I'll still cheer all the time. I just don't have any confidence in this team this season.
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