SaintFanInATLHELL

The preseason tells you nothing unless you are watching the ones vs. ones after the first preseason game. Usually the 1st half or so of the third game gives the best glimpse into what will happen at the start of the regular season.
Still doesn't matter in the preseason. It's likely that less than 53 guys who are currently on the roster are going to be on the roster come the start of the first game. While it's possible to evaluate single players on single plays in the preseason, getting an overall evaluation of how the defense is going to play in the regular season is pretty much laughable. And even more so with all of the new and returning from injury players that are on the defense.

The best time to evaluate everything is sometime after the first quarter of the season. But with the brutal schedule with 3 road games, a home game against the Patriots, and a trip to London out the gate, it may be the end of October before we really know what the 2017 Saints squad is really going to be.

It may be 2009 all over again. The defense may be similar to the 2013 edition that came out of nowhere. Or it can be the historically bad trainwrecks we've seen the last 3 years. Impossible to tell now, or in the preseason, or even by October 1st (unless of course the Saints are 5-0 and the defense is leading the league in points allowed).

My advice is to stop worrying about it. With 87 linebackers and another 52 defensive backs, it's going to be difficult to evaluate the defense at all until the cutdown to 53.

Remember that last year there were very few starting defensive players at the end of the season that were starting at the beginning of the season.

You'd be wise to just accept that you don't know what's going to happen and that you have no control over the outcome. It's good for the blood pressure.

SFIAH

Super Bowl Championships: New Orleans Saints:1, Carolina:0, Atlanta Chokers: STILL ZERO

Only Atlanta choked in an unchokable situation... Life is definitely good.