Somehow I don't think we are done
 

Yet.
I know I'm always negative but I have a feeling. We knew the first quarter of the season was gonna be tough. We knew our offensive line would have problems given injury, patchwork players, and relative youth. Our offense didn't play as a whole all offseason. I expected them to be rusty (although I hoped our defense would be better to compensate). Play calling aside what is killing us is penalties along the line and an aweful red zone offense.
Those things CAN be fixed. We blew some opportunities today.

Defensively we still suck, but we have had opportunities to get takeaways. They just weren't successful. Lattimore will get better, hopefully Vacarri will get benched and someone else will step up. We did just play the team that won it all last year. When it comes to the division all stats, records, and pass transgressions go out the window.
Just win the division

Either that or we really do suck and wind up losing a bunch of games. Could go either way. Who knows.

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Hey I'm with you... if we can pull out a win before the bye week... we can get Armstead and Strief back that's huge....

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The London game will be a toss-up because both teams will be out of sorts. The telling game to me is the Lions game after the bye. If we haven't fixed much after the bye and lose to a Lions team we had 2 weeks to prepare for and are relatively familiar with because we seem to play them every year, it will be the beginning of the end.

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Don't do this to yourself man.

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If my ex-wife woke up with that attitude in the morning, I'd still be married...

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Dreamin' mate. We win 6 possibly 7 games this year, continuing the streak.

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Two games down. The seasons not over.

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I agree. I really had high hopes for Rankins this season but so far he has done nothing. I don't understand why Al Muhammad is inactive. Like you said we need all the energy we can get going into next week. I also want to see Tommy Lee Lewis used more. Ginn is just keeping his raw talent on the bench.

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I don't think we are done either....done giving up points and scoring 1-2 TD's a game on offense.

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Dude, when I was 19 at LSU, I used to watch Allison Collins at some bar on Acadian, I think, the one with the pool tables on a 2nd floor. She is so hot. I used to assume she was looking at and singing just for me. Surely she was and surely the Saints are gonna turn things around soon. Cool post.

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The Saints are really bad. Gronk's TD was a perfect example of our defense. We almost sacked Brady, almost covered Gronk and almost tackled him. We seem to always be a half step from making plays on defense. The surprising part is unfortunately the offense is not much better right now. We struggle running the ball. We have no big plays and receivers in general just dont get open much. Brees' numbers end up looking OK because in the 4th quarter when teams are in prevent we get some yards. Hopefully when we can get the line healthy and Snead provides a spark when he returns. I thought Tommylee Lewis or Coleman would be able to shine in Sneads absence, but we really miss him right now. Terrible weekend for Louisiana football. Whats worse, getting lit up by Tom Brady or Nick Fitzgerald? Yuk!

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The way we looked yesterday, vs. an injury depleted Pats team, I can see us going 0-16, possibly.

Nevertheless, I am a Saints fan. Ive probably seen worse.
I will continue Hoping.
We Hou-Dats will be at the Boot Sunday for the Carolina game.
Got friends going to England.

Screw it. Lets pretend our guys are in The Hunt, and raise holy hell, and
have a good time with it in the Dome. Me & the Viking Princess will be in NOLA for the Lions game.
I'll See some of you in 4 weeks.

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I applaud the optimism. As a life long Saints fan, hope springs eternal. But, this season, the coaching staff, and Brees in black and gold, is at most 14 games away from being done. Sorry. That is just the painful reality of the 2017 New Orleans Saints.

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We've been in the "transient phase" far too long. SP's record the last 50 games is 21-29. Saints aren't even competitive & we look like little leaguers on Sundays. I actually thought we would take advantage of Pats short comings who were missing Amendola, Donte' Hightower, Edelman etc. One of our only play makers is the punter :rolleyes:.

Not sure if you caught Tony Romo's analysis on how our D was giving out so many different looks in coverage, yet there were repeated mental lapses. It's a bad sign to see KV benched this early & Vonn B has been just as suspect.

We are already close to "wait until next year mode". Outside of Cam, Brees and a few others, I don't see guys playing with any heart.

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We may not be done but I just sat on my fork..............and there is no more crow in the freezer. Just sayin'.:p

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Are we going through pubescence? That what this feels like. I'm watching my boys grow up right in front of me. Now they better get their act together........

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JP,

With all due respect, it's been 3+ years (see record) of sub par play performances, not just the first two nationally televised games. This team has been bad for a while.

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I get it when have been bad for years now but I do agree we are watching some draft picks learning and growing. I see this turning abour but I am starting to question DA.

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This is what all Sunshiners have gotten and will continue to get from Payton and Loomis.
Post 2011that is.

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We need to focus on Carolina and nothing else. A divisional W on the road would boost morale and provide momentum. Although the Panthers are 2-0 I don't see them with much momentum either (Tampa does).

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Time to unleash our secret weapon to eliminate the competition. :goodidea:

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And don't forget to watch those Extremist Muslim Dogs.

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Not to mention Carolina lost their key weapon in Greg Olsen to a broken foot. He is the one that always kills us.

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Greg Olsen will not be missed.

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I agree. Minn has the 3rd best winning record at home and the Patriots are, well the patriots. So 0-2 is not a surprise. Now this team did absolutely NOTHING to prevent either of those losses, but if they can get in sync on both sides of the ball, they can get competitive. Not make a run, just get competitive.
Carolina lost Olsen, which is a huge advantage for us. If we are 2-2 going into the bye, which would be awesome,who knows. It's not time to throw in the towel yet.

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Hopefully before we play the stinkin falcons.

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As I said in other threads I think we took a baby step in the right direction. Sure my stomach turned but i was not grabbing the waste basket ever other play like in game 1.

What we are seeing on the field is how weak our bench is

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I disagree on the depth part. On paper, we actually have quite a bit of depth at all positions except OL and DT. Especially compared to recent years. By this time we are usually scouring the free agent pool for LB's and DB's.

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If we go 2-4 or 1-5 through the first six we'll have to go 7-3 the rest of the way just to break even. We have the Panthers, Miami, Detroit and Green Bay the next 4 games.

Then in the final 10 we have Atlanta twice, Bucs twice and the Panthers once more.

I see us beating the Bears, Bills, Jets, Rams and maybe the Redskins and even beating these teams we would still have to win another 3 just to break even and while that could happen it probably won't get us into the playoffs but get us a draft pick that we always get, middle of the road.

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I know better than this.
Some FB that no one has ever heard of smoked the Saints D last week.

Please don't act like it takes a player of Olsen's talent to "kill" the Saints D.

The running joke around here is that we don't want a starting QB to go down because a rookie always kills us.

Truth Time!!!!!!!

Any NFL talent that have Coordinators with a pulse, will "kill" the Saints.

It has been this way for five years.

This includes any opposing D Coordinator with half a brain.

Sean Payton in a bad coach right now.
He has been a bad coach for years now.

Nothing else makes sense.

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Guess it's time to sell the TV and move to Peru.

For myself, I'm going to continue to expect a win every week. Anything else is not under my control. I can't wait until Sunday. The winning streak begins!

:bng:

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That's good for you. Do what makes YOU feel good. I don't see anything wrong with you holding out hope, but if this is how he feels so be it. Either counter his argument with facts or be quiet. Simply attacking a poster for what they posted doesn't offer anything constructive. It just comes across as *****ing and complaining. The board is here for people to let out their frustrations. Allow him to be a member of the board and do what he needs to do to feel better. You're not going to change how he thinks or feels by simply complaining about how he thinks or feels. If you don't have anything constructive to offer about what he thinks then maybe you should not say anything.

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Bro you don't get to claim that the new coaches were the fix and then turn around and spin it to be they would have fixed it if they had been signed earlier.

No matter how anyone spins this the man at the top is SP. He gets the blame after this many season and now 50 games of failure.

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I don't know what will happen, but let's just say we split with the division, 3-3, that gives us 5 losses. GB with any form of healthier line will light us up like a christmas tree. 6 losses. Do we really think we will not lose another to either the Lions, Skins, or Rams?

That's 7 losses. I suspect we are swept badly by the Falcons, possibly swept by bucs, maybe 4 losses instead of 3. that would equate to 8-8. We might lose in November up in Buffalo. It could get ugly, but best case scenario to me would be 9-7 and I really don't have faith that will happen.

By how we are playing now my guess would point to 6-10 or 7-9

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We are 0-0 in Division.