Ashley

Not at all. But it definitely doesn't help, we are dead last in a lot of categories. Dead last in defense for the past couple years, can't get a defense right under Sean Payton and now leading the lead in dead money.
So no, I would sat we are the laughing stock. We are just a average nfl team that won't get it right for years to come.

RaginCajun83

at least the Saints aren't the Browns, things could be much worse right now

exiled

I dunno. Losing to the Raiders in your home opener on a two point conversion for the win in the final minute kinda does make you at least a punchline if not the laughing stock.

RaginCajun83

facts, no one got time for facts

Euphoria

I'd say we are starting to be...

Look if you have a problem and have the problem year after year after year... you start to become a joke.

FinSaint

While things have been less than ideal... with Payton and Brees - the Saints won't ever be the laughing stock of the league.

SloMotion

The year you won the Super Bowl, New Orleans forever shed the brown paper bags, the "Aint's" nickname and any eligibility to be in laughing-stock-club, IMO. Nah, you guys are just in a rut. As long as there's a team in Cleveland, nobody should feel bad about their team ... this from a fan of the team in Detroit, which can also make you feel better about your team now & again/historically, .

Cruize

They beat the Giants by 17 this week with a couple sacks and picks and the conversation flips. WHO DAT!

SaintsBro

I wouldn't quite say laughing stock, but I did hear some national TV commentators joking about Jalen Richard's embarrassing 74-yard TD run, saying "aww, but highlights don't really count against the Saints defense, you know it's the Saints" and again in another segment on another show someone used a play from the Saints/Steelers preseason game to draw on the screen and demonstrate in detail how Big Ben was carving up our inept secondary. On one sports show I watched, even the clip of the 98-yard Cooks TD was introduced with a chuckle, as in "how do you make this amazing play and then go on to lose the game?"

And we have fewer prime time games this year than any recent Drew Brees era year. So on a national profile, maybe not Browns-level laughing stock; but the Saints have sorta been reduced to being only shown on TV or mentioned when it's the other team's highlights. They are almost never mentioned by commentators as being in the mix for playoff spots. It's kind of reminiscent of the old days again.