Rueben Mayes

I am just wondering how all of you Who Dats feel about the importance of gaining HFA for the upcoming playoffs?

I feel like it is of utmost importance for the Saints because we do not want to have to play on the road in SF(at least the weather should be somewhat warm), GB(cold), Minny(less of a concern since it is a dome but a road dome) or Seattle(wet, damp sometimes miserable weather and the crowd noise). Outdoors, cold weather have been factors that have worked against the Saints in the playoffs on the road in the past during the Brees/Payton era but this is a different team.

Comfort should have been taken that the Saints D travels well but after the these last two home games in the Dome my confidence in the Saints secondary has been shaken once again.

Doesn't mean I don't think we can win on the road but getting the best record would really assuage some of my concerns if we had the home field throughout.

So I realize that of course just about every Who Dat would want the Saints to have home field but what I am looking for are the usual brilliant insights that so many of the members of black and gold dot com offer up when questions like these are posed to the board. I know that responses from those far more knowledgeable than I often educate me and also help allay my fears where concerns like these sometimes bubble up to the surface.

What say you Who Dats?

Rueben