Words from some recent winners

FWtex said

I read early in the year that Payton made the game simple for the team ... break the games down by halves and the season down by quarters to achieve their goals. IT was working but I have this gut feeling Payton and the team got a little to greedy, careless, arrogant on offense and lost the play they had ealry in the year.

Kinda fits with the theme here, as soon as you think your better than you are and become greedy you'll eventually pay the price. I hope the saints can go back to playing with that chip on their shoulder.

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I dunno about greedy as much a careless, almost cocky. The Pittsburgh game with all the FOX interviews and the blather was kinda where I began to worry. You prop people up and they seem to buy into it. I much prefer it when this team feels as if it has to prove someone wrong rather than live up to its high praise.

One good example that kinda symbolizes this is: 1st and goal and we throw it without even giving Deuce a couple of shots at it. I think Sean may have wanted to set the tempo and get his guys on a roll. He saw $$ and it might have affected his better judgement. That play kinda killed me because I'm yelling "THIS IS DEUCE THIS IS DEUCE!" and wammo a red zone TO. Coach of the year and MVP talk aside, I like the old school approach -meat and potatoes- kinda stuff more often. I like an exciting play to go with it but caution is warranted. We had a minimum of two field goals in our pocket and threw them away by being a bit too "cute".

Good thing is Sean realized it and is going about adjusting that. So all in all, I'll take the bumps in the road as growing pains but I just hope that dealing with success is a lesson this team learns to be better at WHEN they get on their next roll. Hopefully that begins this weekend.