It’s weird because we kind of know what that feels like in that the historical ineptitude of the Saints - I believe teams very rarely have bad games against us because they psychologically believe we are bad and don’t want to lose to a historical “bad” team.
I don’t know about that. Since the Benson family acquired the team in ‘86, the Saints are a bunch of games over .500 (I think .535).
Given the average age of NFL players and coaches, I don’t think there are many who would remember the pre-Benson era when the Saints were in the Browns-Bengals-Jets-Lions tier — and things change so fast that you cannot even include the non-Jets teams without qualification.