The temptation to win now
I don't care what year it is.... Every year the mindset is.... We are winning the super bowl. Which remains until we are eliminated.
Yep. So many people here have never played a down of ball, and it shows.
The Saints are playing to win the division first and foremost, and come opening week, everyone in that locker room will feel like they’re about to take the league by storm and shock the world by dominating.
To hell with all this doom and gloom, “I don’t want to win the division at 8-9 and lose in round 1” stuff.
Teams can turn it on at any moment. You just never know when suddenly the chemistry will just all click. We saw it for a brief spell to start last season. That team we saw the first two games was not the one we saw at mid-season. We were not capable of blowing anyone out at that point. Those first two weeks were just a small reminder of how sometimes, everyone just gets into the zone together, confidence gets sky high, and you roll.
It’s an aura, and you should always be focused on the idea of capturing that aura and balling out.
Sometimes, winning a crap division and getting that aura at the exact right time down the stretch is all you need. You just never know.