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The Saints WILL NOT give up 30 + points a game on defense in 2016. Guarantee it.
Critics can sleep on this team if they want to. |
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Sleeping is Darren Woodson who predicted the Saints to finish last in the division yesterday on NFL Live. Pundits don't seem to understand two critical points: 1. The Saints have finished 7-9 the last two years with historically bad defenses. Not just bad for a season. Bad in NFL history. 2. All signs point to the defense not being historically bad a third year in a row. Improvements are evident in scheme, personnel, discipline, and health. So if you can win 7 games with virtually no defense, then what's the expectation when the Saints have a halfway decent defense? Don't need to look far back: 2013 came in with a 11-5 record. SFIAH SFIAH |
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7-9 for 2 years, with extremely close losses. Its beyond obvious that we had several young players begin to emerge last year. We had the most rookies of any NFL team. We the signed some very good players this offseason. I'm convinced many "experts" just don't have the time to study all 32 teams and simply look at last year results and if no huge names are signed, assume the worst. In my opinion... 7 wins would be a disaster, 8 wins would be a disappointing, 9 wins would be slightly under-achieving 10 wins is about expected, 11 wins would be slightly over-achieving 12 wins would not be a total shock. Under 8 or over 12 would very much surprise me. |
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Even our own sports guys aren't expecting much. I am optimistic cautiously but will reserve judgement until after the season:)
If we don't improve this year I don't see much chance of us contending again without a major overhaul. |
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Anything less than a downright good defense won't get us back to 7-9 if our offense takes a step back. It could very well become a complete loss. Think Brees can average another 20 plus points a game average? |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ing_touchdowns Most consecutive seasons, 30+ passing touchdowns: 8, Drew Brees, 2008–2015 Most consecutive home games with 1+ passing touchdowns: 54, Drew Brees, 2009–present Most consecutive games, 1+ passing touchdowns: 54, Drew Brees, 2009–2012[1]: BTW Did you know that Drew Brees second streak starting in 2012 ran another 45 games ending last November? So literally in the last 105 games there have only been two where he did not throw a TD pass? Brees led the league in passing last year. And he only played 15 games. If he had actually been healthy for the 2nd half of the Tampa game and played in the Carolina game it would have been a 5th 5000 yard passing season. A 5th where no other QB in history has more than 1. Now I know that the offense is more than about Brees. However, you have a decade of consistency to rely on all the way up to game 16 of last season. So as I started with, there's no evidence that the offense will regress. In fact an improved defense will help the offense too. With more balance and less pressure to come from behind all the time, signs point to progress not regress. SFIAH |
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2016 Training camp is almost here :bananajoy: !
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Top five offense and a top ten defense is not impossible. Improbable but not impossible........I'm an optimist.
We've come out of nowhere a couple of times and had good defenses. I think we can do it again. |
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Day by day we're getting closer YEAH!!!!!!
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In my opinion the only "surprise" would be to finish 2016 with less than 10 wins.
We will again finish with a top 5 offense, and every indication is we'll likely be a middle of the pack defense. Thats 10 wins minimum. |
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It really depends on so many factors. We have the building blocks though and we are working our way back. I am telling you I still have a feeling that our offense could be as good as '11.
Give me a D that is 20th and we will make the playoffs. I will wait to see how the D sounds in camp vs the O, etc. Just have to see the product on the field |
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I'd like it twice if I could.:bng: |
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