dam1953

One issue I see with the Saints is that since winning the SB in 2009 we can field an offense or a defense, but not both. During the dregs of the 7-9s the offense was cruising while the D SUCKED. Then as we focussed on building up the D our since then the offense has been slipping. Yes, Brees is not what he once was but I see a considerable amount of his "slippage" coming in the form of a lack of receivers that don't have the twitter handle of cantguardmike and an offensive line that has been really struggling. Our once dominant screen game was non-existent this year, mostly due to the fact that the O line couldn't get there before the LBs and DBs did. Every screen was a naked screen, but not by design.

If you look at this year's losses, they were mostly due to below average performance of the O line and the D's penchant for blowing it in the last two minutes of the game or OT.

”It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin