The Saints were projected to win 6-7 games last year by nearly all media outlets and odds makers. They under performed those predictions at 5-12, their worst record since 2005 and the first time they finished in last place since 2008. Anyone talking about "winning" anything in 2025 is kind of dreaming. I think some are holding onto what they saw in the first two weeks of 2024 which to me were glorified preseason games since nobody had seen our offense yet and most teams starters were rusty from lack of playing meaningful snaps in the preseason. Basing anything off of those games, one being against the prior years worst team in the NFL and the other against a team just as bad as ours, is just crazy. That is going to be the truth for every year now that preseason is getting cut shorter and practices are limited. I think the truth is we weren't as good as the first two weeks and not as bad as getting shutout by the Packers. We were somewhere in between. But that still put us maybe 6-7-8 wins and third in the division.
So what's changed or is likely to change in 2025 that will have us "winning"? Are we younger and more talented? Are we deeper? Can we acquire an All Pro level player at a position of need? And what does "winning" mean? The division? A playoff game? The Super Bowl?
I don't see anything that can help us "win now" coming. We need to go all in on getting younger, more talented and deeper and maybe develop an all pro player before we should even contemplate making rash moves to reach for a Super Bowl. We can't just skip the middle steps of going from bad to better to good to good enough to win a Super Bowl.