Nick Underhill: Saints Might Not Move on from DA

The difference is a Payton 7-9 involved a top 5 scoring offense being sabotaged by a bottom 5 scoring defense. Payton's calling card, the offense, performed.

Meanwhile DA's defense keeps getting worse.
That bottom 5 defense was sabatoged by payton. We'd score in 3 plays after the defense just had two back to back 15 play drives for field goals... then we'd score in 3 plays or 3 and out putting them back on the field... then we lose because payton burned all his timeouts on stupid challenges or failure to get the play in one time.... So yin yang.