Saints are a bad football team (Merged)

In the first two weeks of the season, the offense and the defense played wonderful complementary football. The next two weeks the defense kept a decimated offense in the game. The Chiefs game… 2x defending champs, nobody expected a win, whatever.

This was embarrassing. All the good fight in the second quarter immediately dissipated in the third. Four straight three-and-outs (with one being via an interception on third down) sending a gassed defense back out there that already had a rough time in the first half… is not complementary football.

I don’t know what the answer is. Injuries add context but are not the sole explanation.