Payton/Brees allowed you to reimagine what was possible. The “standards” they set only applied to the time they were in the building. All this talk about “our standards are raised” is absolute nonsense. They’re not here anymore, and they’re not coming back. It’s long past time to face the music on that, y’all. That’s a Hall-of-Fame QB and head coach that departed. They have not been replaced by Hall-of-Famers at their positions, but the teams that even have one such player/coach have at most three HOFs in those roles. This team has regressed a bit, but the bottom has not come close to falling out and long-term fans of all people should know better than to equate this time with those times.
All the gloating I’ve seen about selling tickets to rival fans, showing up with bags for your heads, booing the quarterback, and so forth is embarrassing. Other fanbases (including one division rival that doesn’t have a message board presence anymore) read these whiny posts that do not require an account to view, then go on other social media and mock y’all.