Why aren’t the New Orleans Saints playing in more primetime games?
 

Why aren’t the New Orleans Saints playing in more primetime games?

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June 30, 2017 by Treasure Washington

As the New Orleans Saints continue to prepare for their 2017 season, their Monday Night Football matchup against the Minnesota Vikings is only 73 days away.

Unfortunately for Saints fans, their team’s next primetime game will be on December 7 when they go on the road to face the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday Night Football.

This will be the first time since 2000 that the Saints will not have a primetime game at home. A lot of memorable events for the Saints have happened in home primetime games.

For example, Drew Brees put on an aerial show against the New England Patriots by throwing five touchdown passes in a 2009 Monday Night Football game. The Patriots had a perfect season and went to the Super Bowl two years earlier, but they did not show up when it mattered and the Saints won the game easily, 38-17. That win eventually propelled the Saints to the NFC’s No. 1 seed and their first Super Bowl title.

Many of Brees’ records and milestones also took place on primetime television. In 2011, he made his mark on Dan Marino‘s single-season passing yard record in a Monday night game against the Falcons. On a Sunday night game against the then-San Diego Chargers a year later, he broke Johnny Unitas‘ record for the most consecutive games with a touchdown pass.

And finally, in a Sunday night game against the Dallas Cowboys in 2015, Brees threw his 400th touchdown pass on the very first play of an overtime win. Brees has thrown 65 touchdown passes since that game and is very close to hitting the 500 mark later this season.

In 2015, the number of primetime games that the Saints played in from the previous season reduced from 5 to 3. Last season, that number went down again to 2. It’s definitely a head-scratching moment, and many Saints fans want more answers of that being the case.

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Well that's simple: 7-9, 7-9, and 7-9.

Simple solution. Do better than 7-9. Get to the playoffs. Make some noise.

I'm looking to more Saints primetime games in the 2018 season.

BTW let's not forget that if the team is doing well in December, they could be flexed into primetime this season too.

SFIAH

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because we're a 7-9 team.

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WERE a 7-9 team. 0-0 right now.

;)

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Where's that 16-0 prediction from last year? Getting gunshy like most of us?

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What a maroon, no one wants to see a team that's finished 7-9 for three straight years on primetime

Good grief I hate the offseason

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A marquee team who will draw high ratings even if they played on Mars.

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Nope. 19-0! Calling it right now. More confident than ever!

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Yes, because 90% of the people are tuning in wanting to see them lose.

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Monday Night Football nugget as it relates to the Saints ...

2016: Falcons vs Saints @ home - Loss (45-32)
2015: Lions vs Saints @ home - Loss (35-27)
2014: Ravens vs Saints @ home - Loss (34-27)

Gotta start winning some games for the Prime time spots.

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Cheerleader!! I'm getting a winning loto ticket too!! More confident than ever.

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Defense gotta do 13 less points per game.Then we got a D with extra possessions for the O.

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Hell, yes, I'm a cheerleader. Always looking for the best. I love watching my Saints play. I don't go searching for reasons to lessen that enthusiasm.

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While it is true that the 2017 squad is 0-0 Guido, the schedule, including primetime scheduling, is based on varying degrees of past performance.

Primetime games features teams with recent playoff history with some degree of star power. So if you look at the primetime matchups of playoff teams such as Detroit, Dallas, Green Bay, Kansas City, and the like you'll see higher numbers.

I'm not knocking the system. Nor knocking the current Saints squad. But as I posted before only improved performance this year including a playoff run will project to more primetime games in the future.

SFIAH

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****, the Saints are a small market team and will remain that way unless they go on a Patriots kind of run. That's just the way it is. Their loss...

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Yep!! As long as I get to watch my team every game, I am good.

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Why...
We've been a sub 500 team
We're small TV market
We're 1 injury away (#9) from boring as hell

Why not...
With Drew we're an exiting team
We usually have close exciting games
Our city has great personality
Our team has rabid fans

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We are fun to watch but not a market draw because we aren't winners according to our schedule.:dunce:

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Not going to say what the record will be, but i will say they are the sleeper this year. While the rest of the league pays attention to the team's that were in the playoff race last year New Orleans is quietly making moves. The fact that we only have 2 primetime games shows that even the networks don't think they mean business this year. Cheers to a better 2017 season. I hope i am able to watch them this year. I could hardly keep my eyes open last year. The improvement of the defense was the only excitement i had.

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well according to the world of sports we dont have to worry bout 17, because Dallas and New England are a lock for super bowl. i beg thediff. because Dallas will lay the biggest rotten egg ever.

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Because they suck.

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They haven't played a game this year. How do they suck?

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Lets clarify this, then. The people who decide which games will be nationally televised expect us to suck.
Based on recent history.

I'm looking for a championship, myself.

but THEY expect us to suck.

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Well said sir!

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Much more reasonable. And I'm with you on the championship.

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I'm all for flying under radar again this year. :cool:

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Lets go 1-0 week one on PrimeTime, and roll into the bye sitting 5-0. Give them 2 weeks to pop off how we will blow it, or 2 weeks to for them to suck us off. Then they might regret not having the Packers game on Sunday Night.

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I don't even have to read the article for the answer. Three 7-9 seasons, losers don't generate ratings.

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Well said, got to believe now cuz we ain't getting any younger.
Once senility sets in it won't matter, and for some of us it's already
creeping in.

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Don't know how this comes as a shock to anyone. Anyway, I'm fine with it. I hate night games. Win or lose, I'm too worked up to go to bed.

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You want to go camping? :D

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I laughed out loud. I'm just glad I wasn't drinking my coffee at the time.

Don't go getting any ideas when we do go camping. I'm always on top.......errrrr.......make that the top bunk! :pink:

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And now come the butter jokes....

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Ha Ha! He said "come" Ha Ha!
"Was he hurting tomorrow"
Quick Boob Video's now more than ever!!!
Better skip the banana swallowing for this one too!

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That game is Atlanta@NE week 7 SNF, the SB rematch. And it's not based on expectations it is based on "What have you done for me lately?". They only went out of their way to schedule Oakland last year on SNF. No expected contender gets SNF games. Otherwise, where are the titans SNF games? Where are the bucs?

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If we could not accept 7-9 seasons and try in down years without all the rattling(7-9 was avoidable, they could have won 1 or 2 more), we would not be snubbed. 8-8 vikings got SNF.