Saints/Bengals gameday thread!

NPs6724 said

I expected a WELL-COACHED team that didn't make 5 critical mistakes every game. If we lose while playing smart football, so be it. But THREE of our four losses have come from STUPID mistakes that gave the game away. This team may have good guys with good character, but they are just as bad as any Haslett team we ever saw. They still lose games they should win, they give games away, they still make mistake after mistake with no end in sight. If you just looked at drive charts of this year and every year Haslett was here, would you notice a difference? Still a ton of yards, still a ton of turnovers, still a pathetic defense. Payton is showing more an more each week that he's not much more than a rookie HC just like Haslett.

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I agree with you about he turnovers...Each lose can be blamed on the turnovers. Shouldn't be happening. But I believe Payton will try to fix it. Brees was bad today, but that's the first time we've had to say that this year. Copper, well he's a special teamer that is forced into paying WR. Henderson still scares me with the ball. Not sure why Je isn't getting open more. Colston got hurt, and our defense, well, the DB's are pathetic. Not much we can do about that now.

Maybe it's just me, but because Payton had to come in and basically, kick out half of his roster says more about Haslet than anything. He left this team filled with knucleheads and it fell to Payton to clean it up, and for my money, he's done a great job making us respectable. It's going to take more time for us to get to the next level.