dizzle88

We did plenty of things to lose vs cardinals but it's not like we didn't do anything positive.

However, if we are going to be a team that; drops 4 interception opportunities a game, allows huge runs up the middle on 2nd and 12 or can't score a TD in 4 redzone trips then I'm afraid it'll be another long season.

I understand the Cardinals have a decent Defense, I don't quite get people calling them SB contenders, all I saw was a veteran team beating on a handful of rookies and Sean Payton being too stubborn to call anything but a screen pass.

Obviously we'd like to see improvement in week 2 (I'd like to see a blowout)
Just remember last season when people said "atleast we play the bucs"
Remember what happened, we squeaked a win in overtime and then they threw the game in week 17 to get a better draft pick.

Do not underestimate this team, they know our entire offensive playbook (not that it's hard to learn, I can call our plays from the formation now)

We can't go into Tampa with;

Brandon Coleman catching TD's then dropping crucial first down catches
Marques Colston dropping 5 passes a game
Offense not taking advantage of opportunities to score
We certainly cannot settle for field goals every single trip.
Defense needs to take advantage of turnover chances
Jameis Winston threw a pick 6 his first ever pass, we need to get pressure on him and force mistakes.

Finally, Sean Payton needs to man up and be the aggressive coach that he signed up as.
All I've seen since 2012 is a conservative game manager who waits for other parts of the team to play badly and then jumps on that person, completely ignoring the fact that the offense is putting the defense in some very bad situations.

Your bonehead creator picked a fine chapter to omit from your memory bank....let me ask you, does a machine like yourself ever experience fear? - Vegeta, DBZ

Beastmode

Get the drops under control. Winston is ripe for being picked, get the turnovers.

mighty12

I guess I am on the opposite end of this argument. I don't think week 2 will prove anything about the future of this season. It's a lose-lose as far as predicting how the rest of the season goes. If we win big, it won't be big enough(Titans won 42-14). If we win close, same 7-9 Saints from last year. If we lose, sky is falling/fire Ryan/fire Payton/Brees is done. If I am to believe the Saints are playoff contenders this year, this is not the game that will solidify my faith.

RaginCajun83

to early to determine how the season will go from here, just get the win and improve from last week.

This game WON'T be a blowout even if the offense can shake its redzone issues. Its a match up of division foes and evenly matched teams

IMO, Payton hasn't been the same since he came back from his suspension. There's a lack of aggression in his play calling and his attitude.

WhoDat!656

I feel the same way.

The one thing that last week's game and this week's game have in common is that both are games the Saints should have won!

Even with the injuries, if the offense and defense, (and the play-calling) were better the Saints would have won.

The Saints have absolutely no reason to not score TDs on every possession against Tampa.

The Saints schedule doesn't get any better after Tampa: Panthers, Cowboys, Eagles, failclowns, Colts, Giants, Titans.

The Saints had better get their heads out of their collective a$$es or 2014's 7-9 record will be remembered as fondly as 2009.

Saints 42-17

Geaux Saints

"A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."

Danno

A win tells us nothing other than we're 1-1.

A loss however tells us we aren't the 10 or 11 win team we were hoping for.

saintshrimp

This game against Tampa is the only game I can see us winning in the first two months. God I hope I'm wrong believe me I do but I see a 1-7 start to our season

WhoDat!656

I agree that SP hasn't been the same since his suspension, but saying the Saints and Bucs are evenly matched is like saying a crocodile and a chameleon are similar!

saintshrimp

This is when you can tell its a sad sad upcoming year when we start to call a game against the worse team in the NFL last year as a season defining game

SaintsBro

I agree, we can learn a lot about our team from this game. Tampa Bay is about on our level. It's not hard to imagine, that without Brees at the helm, the recent Saints roster of the last two years could easily have been a two-win trainwreck of a team, just like Tampa was last year. They certainly gave us quite a handful, both times we played last year.

The old days of Sean Payton kicking Tampa's can from one end of the stadium to the other, with those fantastic dominant 38-17 type blowout scores that we used to love and enjoy, both at home and at their place....those days are long behind us now. We will see a better yardstick of what we really have on our roster, come Sunday.