There's no question that the years under coach Payton in which we've done really well, we have had a fast start and put the pedal to the floor and never really let up. 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, were all fast starts where we were a hot team racking up wins right out the gate. The years where it's a slow start, battling above .500, win one, lose one, win one, lose one, just barely eking it out....those years hardly ever seem to end well for us late in the year.

The exception to this rule is probably last year, where things really didn't seem to start coming together for us until maybe the end of the Browns game, or somewhere thereabouts. But the defense and the offense just kept getting better and better, as things started clicking and the year went on. There were games that didn't look good, but Drew had his Drew face on and Sheldon Rankins danced the robot....even the games we lost, people kinda forget how close and "in it" we always were.

It's kinda agonizing to admit it, but you could almost say that literally the ONLY thing that has kept us out of appearing in the Super Bowl the past TWO FREAKING YEARS IN A ROW, has been two absolute freak, fluke plays, in critical playoff games, one of which wasn't even our fault.

The odds of it happening a third time? I honestly think that the more times that this crazy fluke stuff in Minny and against the Rams has already happened to us, the less likely it is for something absolutely crazy and random to happen to us AGAIN, the next time. The odds have to go down. You can't keep losing on one-in-a-million plays. If we keep trying, then eventually we will have a normal Saints game in the playoffs and really make some history.