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My early pick for the New Orleans Saints' 2016 record: 8-8. Although I think they're capable of beating anyone with Drew Brees at quarterback, and I think their defense can't help but improve. The consistency just hasn't been there in back-to-back 7-9 seasons

Clickin das linkage for his game by game predictions.

2016 New Orleans Saints game-by-game predictions - New Orleans Saints Blog- ESPN

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A one game improvement? With all the young guys coming back and all the positive changes we made?

I see 9-7 as a minimum and 11-5 as our max.

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0-2 out of the gate? Sorry Triplett but you're wrong, dead wrong.

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13-3

We shock people but fly under the radar for most of the season.
Defense shocks other teams with how well they play. JL comes out looking like the second coming of Vilma, turns into a leader and voice of the defense. Braeux plays like an all-pro but Lewis has another down year riddled with injuries leaving PJ Williams to step up and start.

I think we'll shock some people this year, I like flying under the radar again. Key is the draft; we have two big holes, OG and DE. We must address these spots with somewhat early picks.

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early guess: 10-6

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I can see 4-0, but after the bye who knows...

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We'll fly under the tire kicking see what's left in the tank for a hometown discount radar!! Strictly for the kid!

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I don't think he's too far off. I'm thinking 9-7 and just missing out on a wild card spot. I hope I'm wrong! These last couple seasons have made me more skeptical.

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I'll wait until pre season is over to see what we got.

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You realize that not one single person is gonna remember this thread in 2 days?

So your opinion right now is that you have no opinion?

Hell, I say 19-0, and anyone who doubts me is a moron.:p

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Why you hatin' on my thread man? I could have made a poll! :shock:

https://media.makeameme.org/created/...tin-9qwi0n.jpg

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Thread? Thread? Is that what the Black and Gold means? I thought this was a football site! What kind of quilt will we make next?

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We go 3-13. Brees gets traded. We get the 1st pick. We go Quarterback. DeShaun Watson. Clemson. We've got plenty of money. We rebuild. Dynasty.

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8-8.?

The move of getting rid of Rob is a two game swing in itself.

10-6

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I'm there with ya Danno!

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The offense needs to step up imo for there to be 10 wins.

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16-0 winning by 40 each week
Then a bye week followed by smashings of the Packers and Cardinals in the playoffs and a 52-3 win over the Patriots in the Superbowl
Brees to throw fr 6173 yards 57-3 TD-INT
Ingram 1375 yards 11 TD
Cooks 1476 9 TDs
Breaux 8 INT
Jordan 16 Sacks


The band wagon train is leaving the station
"All Aboard"

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10-6 or 11-5 is where I see us. I'm not going to predict 13-3 like I did the last two seasons. Bad mojo! :razz:

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I was thinking the same but for different reasons. 1 game improvement with how bad the D was. If the d is better than last year that has to be worth at least two wins. I am thinking 9-7, if the offense plays the way they did the last few weeks last season I could see 10-6, maybe

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The D should be significantly improved; Anthony & Kikaha have a year experience and are switching positions(should be able to play quicker). Lewis, Williams, and Swann are coming back. Browner is gone, addition by subtraction.

We have gained a pretty decent MLB in Laurinaitis and Robertson is probably already our best coverage LB...

Not too mention, we still have the draft to go...

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I know I think were gonna rock and win the Bowl like I do before the start of every season. But Danno ur crazy! 18-1. SuperBowl Champs.

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And make it another two game swing towards the W column with the parting of Browner.

So, 12-4..?

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Lots of luck involved too. Carolina went from 7 wins to 15 wins with almost the same exact team and coaches.

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Problem is we have the 4th hardest sch. I also see a 9-7 or 10-6 but I could also vision a 6-10 season. With this team there is no telling

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Difficulty of schedule is generally fictitious. It is a measurement simply based upon the previous year's win/loss record of the current season's opponents. It really has very little correlation to the actual quality of those opponents in the current year.

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Not to mention that the 15-1 Panthers (who we play twice) kinda skew that stat.

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The schedule was easier. Norman was the difference. We should know because that's what lost us the game week 3.

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Games that no one is picking us to win

Oakland
@NYG(but Beckham is probably gonna show up again)
@SD(it's actually 50-50)
Carolina
@Kansas City
Seattle
@San Francisco(also 50-50)
Denver(and this team is the one that's going to stun many)
@TB
@Arizona

I believe we beat Oakland, Atlanta, Carolina once, LA, Detroit, and TB once(we got screwed with the twice in three weeks). That's six wins, and then there's the "tough" home games against Seattle, Denver on top of the road game in San Diego, SF, and KC. Those are the five other games we need to win. I don't think we beat NYG, KC, Arizona(it's too late in season), Carolina twice, Atlanta twice, TB twice.

If we were to get off to our typical 1-3, then 4-4 then 4-6 starts. Here's who we have after that? LA at home, Detroit at home. That should get us right back to .500. Then it comes down to which TB game we win. If we lose in TB we got back to 6-8 and then have the last two games which really Atlanta will not matter as the best we could do is 8-8.

And the bears schedule is so easy starting out, they are probably going 10-6 or better.

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I think we need to sweep Carolina. We do have the advantage on three days rest having a deeper offense. Number one receivers do not play well on Thursday games after productive Sunday games.

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11-5 and Carolina slumps with 7 total wins and finishes third in the division!

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Not far from my inkling on both counts.

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12-4 or bust?

:couch:

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Win the division baby

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hoping 11 - 5. wouldn't bet over 9-7

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Depending on Vegas odds I'll definitely be taking the over...
They might only give us 5.5 wins this season...

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They were at 7 wins in late February.

http://www.wagertalk.com/news/wp-con...-Wins-2016.jpg

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6-10

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I just can't get a feel for the schedule until I get some info on how the opposing teams look in training camp. For that matter I can't get an idea of how much improvement our defense will see from last year. There are so many factors that are unknowns at this point.