It's absolutely criminal that we don't have a SB to show for that 2017 draft

picnicwithfish said
I’ve had multiple arguments with so many people about so many aspects of that game. Here is what it all boils down to. Even with lots of bad play calls, bad breaks, missed opportunities, the game plan, and execution, had us exactly where we wanted to be to win that game. If the no call is called, you run the clock down and kick the field goal (which was about 99.9% chance to make).

Now, let’s say they miss the field goal and go into overtime with a missed kick rather than a deflating screw job. I still feel they compose themselves and win rather than being emotionally defeated before overtime happened. Needless to say, if the no call was called we go to a 99.9% chance to win the game with no time left on the clock and punch our ticket to the Superbowl.

I'm not questioning the impact of the no-call whatsoever.......what I'm saying is that Sean Payton, who typically was very good with those types of late-game play calling scenarios, somehow weirdly decided that in a tied game prior to the 2-minute warning, the Saints needed to try to score a TD in a chunk play, or get very close.

And if that had happened, while I would certainly like to believe that the Saints could have kept the Rams out of the end zone, they would have still had a solid amount of time to work with. Whereas if the Saints had been more methodical, we could have ended up with that walk off FG attempt (albeit likely from a longer distance than what we would have had if the no-call had actually been called).