Win three games on the road next year to prove things are different
 

Three of these
@KC
@SD
@SF
@Arizona

I'm expecting NE to actually win in SF and Arizona next year let's see if we can do it too.

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How about getting back that Legendary Home Dome Advantage we once had by winning all Home Games?!?

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yeah, I was going to say...winning those 3 won't if we can't break .500 at home

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Keep the opposing teams under twenty to prove anything is different!

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Three on the road is the minimum.......sigh!

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same goal as every year.
Win the division.
Sweep the division.
Control your own destiny.

Sweep the division - there are the 3 key road wins

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How about we just win them all.

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Indeed... perfect home record and split the road games at worst...:bng:

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If we do that, and still go 3-3 in division(because if we go 5-1 we would sweep Carolina which I'm wondering if can happen). So we lose all three games out of division? If we win 8 home games and one road game, that's 9 wins and still may not be enough. The team to watch out for is Chicago, you just don't know with them but if they beat Tennessee or Indy they could go 3-1 against the afc south, 2-2 against the nfc east(cowboys or bears and eagles), beat SF and TB and they would have to not sweep anyone in division to go 9-7. I don't think they are getting swept by anyone. Maybe GB. I think they will sweep Detroit. They have a schedule like that to throw people off guard with Kevin White.

If Chicago goes 10-6 a good year could keep us out of playoffs which is why those road games are important especially against SF and SD. KC wasn't all that great at home last year either barely beating Cleveland, scoring 10 points at home against SD, and winning a shootout with Buffalo. It was on the road where they were dominant.

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What really needs to happen is a strong showing and winning games right out of the gate. The years that the Sean Payton Saints have historically done REALLY well, are all years where they come out strong and win a bunch of games, get the divisional lead, and then keep on going. The years when they slip up, drop games, and where they have to battle back, or when they're outside looking in, when they need help, or the seasons when they hit a slump and then have to keep clawing and fighting to find their way back into the mix, week after week....Those years NEVER turn out well for the Saints. It's a clear pattern in every single Sean Payton/Drew Brees season.

2006, 2009, 2011, for three obvious examples -- all those years were pretty darn good, and in all of them the team was a juggernaut, rolling off an impressive string of wins to run the table starting early in the season. Other years where the team falters, slips up, or where they have to kick and claw their way back into the hunt late in the year -- going win one, lose one, win one, lose one, all year long -- those years don't seem to EVER end up being nearly as good for Sean Payton teams. For whatever reason, they're just not built for that. They need strings of wins in a row, not a win one, lose one, win one, lose one type season....

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I dont care how many wins we get where are long as we have enough to get to the playoffs at this point.

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4-2 in division
3-1 vs AFCW
2-2 vs NFCW
Sweep DET and NYG

11-5, 1st round bye!!!

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I'd really like to see us sweep the Falcons and Bucs and at least spilt home and home with the Panthers who seem to have our number, again...

Now, to get back to elite status, we must win all home games: Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, St. Louis Rams, Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos and the Oakland Raiders.

On the road, the Saints need to take Atlanta Falcons, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers...

These would be understandable setbacks on the road: Carolina Panthers, Arizona Cardinals, Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Giants...

F**K! Getting sucked into this again!!! :deadhorse2:

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We might get three home games the first four weeks. I'm projecting week 1 at home, week 3 vs Atlanta and week 5 TNF at Carolina which means we have to be at home week 4. But that's just my predictions.

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We swept Atlanta last year, we have not swept them back to back since Matt Ryan was drafted. And the division pattern in recent years has been 5-1 or 3-3.

06-4-2
07-3-3
08-2-4
09-4-2
10-4-2
11-5-1
12-3-3
13-5-1
14-3-3
15-3-3

The next time it isn't 3-3 it's likely to be 5-1.

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Three Road Games to Win...

Atlanta, Carolina and Tampa.

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hate to say this out loud but i really hate/like the off season moves the falcons have made

C Alex Mack
DE Derrick Shelby
LB Sean Weatherspoon
LB LaRoy Reynolds
OT Tom Compton.
WR Mohamed Sanu
DE Derrick Shelby
LB Courtney Upshaw
SS Charles Godfrey

I say all solid moves across the board.

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Win the Division - period.

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Hahahahaha!

Either you're dead wrong and feel stupid. Or you're totally right and you're struttin' around holdin' on to your "I told you so" suspenders. But usually, something absolutely unseen happens making these discussions irrelevant. And any way it does, no one else remembers the thread at all.

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Is Matt Ryan elite? Their defense was already good last year. They're going to be Denver good next year? If atlanta's defense were to say hold GB to 10 points you think Ryan will be able to put the offense up 14 points? I mean I can't imagine Ryan winning 24-10 over Rodgers.