Doombot said

Real sports analysis can be boring to the casual fan. Who wants to hear about batting averages with runners on base when you can talk about steroid needles, player negotiation tampering or ex players going bankrupt?
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it's much better to elicit emotional reactions by drumming up drama, creating controversy and inciting hardcore fans. Then, whether you hate it of love it, you can't wait to check in and see what those "idiots" are saying today. While this happens every week, it increases exponentially for the few games that they actually manage to carry on their network. They will say or do anything in order to get casual fans to tune in on Monday.

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here's what i think is the problem national media has with the saints - they can't craft a narrative:
- they were trying with the "second coming of the greatest show on turf"/no D; then we get more yards on the ground than the air???
- brees is not not a media QB (by his choice as much as the fact that he's not the "ideal" qb type they all love) - he reads from the crash davis interview answer guidebook
- reggie is our only marquee player and he falls between beast and bust - what's the media to do with that?
- many of our best contributors are late round draft picks or UDFAs (people that didn't have much college notice)
- last week's star might not produce anything this week
- on D we're good at most/all the positions but no single group is stellar
- shockey & hargrove aren't behaving shockey & hargrove like (as the media would like them to)
- coach is more "think-y" than "yell-y"

the saints are a TEAM - and our fantasy football/solo stats media doesn't handle that well
to talk about the saints you have to talk about actual football plays - there are no soap operas here, no prima donnas
what's the national media to do?

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