Saints What bummed you out the MOST about the Saints' 2019 season? (1 Viewer)

You know what bothered me? We were a 13-3 team and the entire season seemed annoying, aggravating and not fun in the slightest. I mean, it ended because of a coin flip, the overtime rules have been dumb forever, and I admit that even though we benefited in 2009. But ...

- Every game they took a touchdown from us - or if not EVERY game, it certainly seemed that way.
- The started out by blowing the whistle when Cam had that TD in the Rams game. By the end of the season they let plays go but you still couldn't "enjoy" a play like the fumble return for a touchdown against the Vikings at the end because they are going to go through each play on a frame by frame basis. They managed to do two opposite things and suck at both.
- The league is desperately trying to keep the games close because they want eyeballs on the ads for the 4th quarter for every game and the result is that the games are unwatchable due to flags called or penalties that they let go.

I think that's what I'll take out of it. Each game I saw was unpleasant to sit through. It's been a situation for years where I have to have something else going on on a different screen because the constant interruptions to an NFL game are excruciating, but now the actual games suck to watch as well. I couldn't imagine thinking that for a 13-3 team. But they won't fix it while Goodell is around, I am sure he's taking a Dremel to his nipples with how happy he is that the games are close, too stupid to understand what's happening.
My thoughts completely. This was the least enjoyable 13-3 season a team could have. After every good offensive play, and after every third-down stop, I responded not with a cheer but with a wince and a frantic look for a flag. Even after we clinched the division, the playoffs loomed like an ominous storm, as every team we needed to lose, didn't.

One quibble - it did not start with the Rams game; they screwed us in the first half of game 1 against the Texans...
 
for me it was week 14 had a 3 pt lead, 4th and 2,... 58 seconds left, ball on niners side of the field. Couldn't get er done., threw us into the wild card
 
I think at that point they were holding him up trying to strip the ball since he'd already made it into chip shot FG territory. He never should have been so loosely covered to begin with though.
I'm talking about the initial hit. Williams hit him high. Physics will tell you Williams would never get Kittle off his feet with that hit and the size difference was never going to push him oob. The play is to drive on that outside lower leg. I watched other defenders tackle Kittle later in the year. Even big LB's were tackling the legs as the initial hit. It goes back to Williams' football IQ. We know the Minny miracle was a complete mental failure.
 
For me I knew it was going to be very tough when both Rankins and Davenport went on IR....

Then I felt some optimism because of the way our offense was playing to end the season (particularly the offensive line)

Then the offensive line shats the bed against the Vikings...

That about sums it up for me....
 
Given the way the season started, I believe we were blessed to get to 13-3. We finished tied for our best regular season record. Also, with all the injuries, you have to wonder how DOMINANT we could have been. Oh, well...

To me, the most disappointing things about our season were:

1a. Brees lack of arm strength for the deep ball, and

1b. Finishing among the BEST in fewest turnovers, yet laying an egg with 2 giveaways in the Divisional round. We beat Minny, and I believe we'd be playing this weekend.

Would, coulda, shoulda... yeah, I know.

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Hey NDCC!! Whassup brother!

For me personally, not getting a tryout with the Saints was the biggest disappointment of the year. It would have been a tryout the Saints never would have forgotten - lmao
 
Overall, my biggest disappointment is we just couldn't rise to the occasion when it counted most. 49ers game and Vikings game come to mind.
And that's why the team got bounced out of the playoffs when they did.

No team can play their best for every game in a season... but the very good to borderline elite teams break even or very close to it in big games. The Saints went 0-2 in the games you referenced.
 
Inability to get off the field on 3rd downs and inability to convert 3rd downs, in a way, that you would think that is acceptable for a 13-3 team.
 
Inability to get off the field on 3rd downs and inability to convert 3rd downs, in a way, that you would think that is acceptable for a 13-3 team.
There's two kinds of 13-3 teams. The ones that have a dominating defense and those that have a non-stoppable offense.

The 2019 Saints were closer to the latter than the former.
 
I call complete BS on this one. The Vikes scored 20 points in regulation....and the Saints defense struggled to stop the run because both Rankins and Davenport were on IR.

I don't think it is coincidental that the game that Klein was out the 9ers destroyed our defense. He sets the defensive alignments. He was a backup in Carolina because the starter was this guy named Luke Kuechly...



Couple of examples at 3:00 and 4:21, there was a few others I noticed, just can’t find tape. Big fan of Klein but we couldn’t make plays on defense against the Rams last postseason and the Vikings this past year when we needed it most. We need impact players. I’ve watched the game a few times and it is obvious they went after Klein, Marcus Williams and anyone of our nickel and dime cb’s.
 
PJ Williams was one of our best and most consistent players all year. So was Klein. I love Robertson just as much as the next but he was late to see and react to plays (watch the 49ers game, again) EVERYTHING was open underneath when he played and Klein was out.



Weeks 1-8 he was ranked 116 out 117

CSP has been patient with PJ Williams over the year, he has been anything but consistent. Sometimes he’s great, sometimes he gives up the game winning TD. That’s exactly the difference between a playoff team and a Champion.
 
week 14, 4th and 2, 58 secs left, ball on 9ers side of field. Couldn't get it dome, resulting in wild card.:cry:
 
Payton is my biggest disappointment of the season. He did a phenomenal job when Brees was out only to get cute and chase records down the stretch.

He didn’t play Murray enough after he showed he was the best Saints RB of the 2019 season and he didn’t stick with Taysom in the playoff game.

All of it comes back to the same fault that had Joe Vitt here for so long and that’s Payton’s loyalty. He had to ride the hot hand in all those scenarios and he failed to do so because he couldn’t keep himself from involving Kamara and Brees because those were and are his studs. He should’ve acknowledged what was working instead of sticking to his guns.
 

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