arsaint

All the talk about the Vikings with the “us against the world” attitude.

Shades of 1987

We’ll never be allowed to win again when it matters...

This league is FIXED

NOLA54

One & done now I'm done!!!!!!!!!

arsaint

2017
2018
2019

Yes Roger, I get the message… You will make sure that this team never wins another championship as long as you are the fixed football league commissioner…

CHA_CHING

I had a bad feeling all week leading up to the game because Minnesota matched up poorly with us. Everyone wrote off Kirk Cousins, but the Saints have a history of mediocre QBs at best turning into Pro Bowlers against them in the playoffs. I knew we were going to be in trouble when the spread went to 6+ and everyone talking about Green Bay and how this would be an easy blow out win for us. Even the team's attitude going into this game told us that they were overlooking the Vikings.

OP is half right - the Vikings did come into the game with this "us against the world" mentality. They were motivated.

What was the Saints mentality going into the playoffs? We were robbed last year and are owed a SB. That's why no one feels sorry for us and are happy we lost. This team made victimhood into their identity all year. Instead of being motivated and wanting to overcome their mistakes, they just wanted sympathy cause "we got robbed" as it was repeated non-stop. People quit feeling sorry for us cause they got sick to death of hearing about it and any time some other team got screwed on a non-call PI, they had a reason to be angry with Payton for pushing that rule and opening the pandora's box to all this crap.

Remember those 49ers teams coached by Jim Harbaugh years ago? Remember how they spent all their time whining and moaning about the non-calls in their post season losses?
2011 it was the the Jacobs fumble being whistled.
2012 it was the non-call PI in the end zone at the end of the SB.
2013 it was several non-calls vs Seattle and some bad officiating. (Let's also not forget their fans talking about the roughing the passer call against them vs us in that regular season game)

Yeah... that's what we have become. Harbaugh spent all his time freaking out at refs and whining after these losses. Their fans had all these excuses, usually overlooking the glaring red flags that their team wasn't that good. One of those red flags was where they would get blown out badly in a number of losses (something that has followed Harbaugh into Michigan)

In a weird sick way, it almost feels like karma for our over-reaction to the non-call. Like the NFL gods are punishing us for being so obnoxious and unbearable about it.



2017 - Goodell made us get in a 17-0 hole to start the game and then give up a hail mary pass to end it? Really?

2018 - Goodell told us to blow a 13-0 and 20-10 lead, oh and give up 50 yards for the Rams to force OT, then Brees to throw an INT in the endzone? Gotcha.

2019 - Goodell made us play like **** for 3 quarters with our 40 year old QB looking terrible, turn the ball over twice, then give up a 40 yard bomb pass in OT too? Wow, Goodell is good at this!

neugey

2017 was a fluke play
The loss a few minutes ago was a few of our own critical mistakes
2018 was a whole load of BS, don't even bother to compare it to other years

llaguardia81

Exactly, the league didn't mess us up, we messed ourselves up. Offense looked flat.

Halo

I didn't think we would win only because I don't see the "Dome Field Advantage" anymore. We win more games on the road lately. If we ever drop a stink bomb, it will be at home.

Kryptonite

I've been saying this for a few years now.

Kryptonite

Been saying this for a few years now.

blackangold

We drink the kool aid at home...

I don’t agree with all the conspiracy stuff this year. They just didn’t make the plays when it mattered. If it wasn’t Taysom Hill it was no one. Lattimore going down for 1 play ended up costing us a lot as well. I bet Cousins doesn’t throw that ball if Lattimore was in.