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With everyone either out of town or under water....I crunched some numbers. (By the way, all the best to everybody's friends and family...I hope you're all doing well.)

Basically, I get tired of listening to people reference the Saints as if they are one of the worst teams in the league. Even though we are consistently mediocre , we are referred to as if we are the worst team in the NFC.

So...I wanted to see how the total wins panned out in the Haz era (also the new millineum) vs. the rest of the NFC.

Here it is:

1st place: Philly(59 wins). No surprise here. Good organization, good personnel. Top notch franchise.

2nd place: Packers(53 wins). Favre has caught hell lately...and deservedly so. But the fact remains that this team wins every year...and then sux in the playoffs.

3rd place: Rams(51 wins). No really bad years and a couple of really good ones. We own them...but they got a ring and an NFC championship while we got poop. Video game coaching.....great talent....but they win consistently.

4th place: Bucs(43 wins). Really just came to earth over the last 2 years. Before that, they were like the Eagles...great every year, but can't win the big one. Well run org under McCay. Amazing defense. Typical that we took em down twice the year they won it all.

5th place: Saints(42 wins). That's right. If you look at the overall numbers, we are the fifth most successful NFC franchise of the new millenium. Consistent play around 500, while teams like the vikes, panthers,giants, and falcons have layed some eggs and haven't won as many ballgames over five years.

Not saying that we rule or anything. Just thought the numbers were interesting. This coach that drives us all crazy has posted the fifth best record in the NFC over his tenure (out of 16 teams).

If I told you these stats in a vacuum, you would think we were happy fans with a team to be proud of. But....in reality, we're frustrated and tired of underachieving,