Have your expectations for the season changed?

I initially had low expectations, but like many let myself be talked into believing this team could be good. We won our first two in an ugly fashion, and I told myself: “this is what good teams do: they win games they should lose”. The front office has done an admirable job, and on paper we had the potential to be good. Underhill kept saying how competitive they were in camp, and I started to believe things could change.

DA has destroyed that in four games. He stuck with Carmichael inexplicably after last season’s debacle, and is unwilling to move on now. He insists on living by his most famous, worst soundbite: “Keep doin’ what you’re doin’”.


My expectations? Low as can be. I hope the Saints can win some games, and while I never thought we’d seriously compete for a Super Bowl, unlike some I would love to hang another division banner in the Superdome. We can keep winning against the Falcons, that’d put a smile on our faces. But my hope is that whatever happens, we start next season with a new head coach, because I firmly believe we will go nowhere with this regime.

As I stated many times on this forum, I don’t think that’ll happen. Allen will throw Carmichael under the bus by season’s end, get one of his cronies from his Raiders days to be OC and we’ll wade in his mediocrity another season. With the way things are going, he’ll switch PC to other duties and have Curry call the plays after the next few games. It’ll come too late, and won’t be enough.