The problem is the non-fact of “easiest schedule of all time” that keeps being bleated here. Anyone who clicks the 2015 strength of schedule link will see multiple teams played an even easier one than the .427 SOS the 2023 Saints played, but Dennis Detractors Detest Details Dat Don’t ‘Demnify Da Dude, so here we are. A common superlative talking point is blown to bits, and the response is “b-b-b-b-but muh histrie!” I correctly identified that the best coach this team has ever had was also capable of underperforming against a weak schedule. All the Sean Payton trading card blurb facts in the universe won’t change that one. He had two fewer wins than the coach y’all froth about against a similar strength of schedule, and it remains the truth when you factor out the game Drew sat (7-8). And it remains true if you take out the 17th game under the new scheduling format (34-0 win vs NE; 8-8). It’s also true that the 2023 Saints had a better home record (5-3) than the 2015 Saints (4-4) even though the entire fanbase allegedly hates this coach and refused to cheer for him during pregame announcements. Want some more painful truth? The 2023 hate-the-coach Saints lost one game out of eight by double digits. The 2015 Saints, playing a .003 harder SOS, lost four games out of nine by double digits. Hall-of-Fame head coach lost games against: rookie Jameis Winston, rookie Marcus Mariota, missed the entire previous season Sam Bradford, and Brian Hoyer. The latter two were by three scores.