Long time Saints fan (since 1970) and seeing Brees get his passing hand hurt is devastating. Plus the facts that the Refs did it YET AGAIN to the Saints in unacceptable. Jordan's fumble return for a TD would have been a huge difference. Im so tired of these refs. AND I swear to God, if I ever see Eli Apple do anything close to doing his job, I'll be stunned. He can't cover and he certainly can't tackle. I despise him.

The game may have been "rigged" but no one can defend Apple - go back & watch - missed tackle after missed tackle. He is terrible. You actually think he is good??

Apple is a hot and cold, streaky player. Hell, Dak Prescott of all QBs was torching him last year when we moved Apple over Cooper in that game.

Of course, our fans aren't going to focus on the negative. We'll spend a whole year talking about a bad call as if that's our only problem.

The secondary was torched once the defensive line ran out of gas. Hell, they were getting torched before that.

LATTIMORE got burned by Cooks, not unlike how the Rams were picking us apart in the NFCCG.

This team has serious problems, and talking about how games are rigged and pretending Roger Goodell is some Lex Luthor super genius comic book villain, is just ignoring the evidence in our faces.

This was my greatest fear going into this year. We looked like an exposed team in the final month of the season last year including playoffs. So far, that has followed us. When Brees went down, it was put on full display just how one dimensional this offense is and relies entirely on our aged, 40 year old HoF QB. Hell, you saw signs of this last week with how thoroughly Houston shut us down for one half of that game. I

Cook is yet another dud for us at the Tight End position so far. We haven't had a decent TE now since Hoo-Man in 2015.

The offense is what it was last year - entirely reliant on Brees throwing to Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara. No one is scared of our other receivers cause they don't posse a threat. Cook drops passes and gets shut down easily.

Get ready for a long season....

It doesn't matter how good we are. You can call it pretending if you want. The evidence is there. What we do on the field doesn't matter. Two steps forward and one step back thanks to the flag, which doesn't fly when the same (or worse) offense takes place on the other side. Its right there in front of our faces. Blame whomever you want. The refs controlled this game far more than the rams good play or our 'bad' play. This was a "W" for LA before they kicked it off.

With this kind of thinking, why even bother watching? After all, Roger Goodell is the Wizard of Oz, as you told me. As if he's truly smart enough to pull all this off....