The temptation to win now

DSnfla said
LOL if we had just won those 1st 2 games by say a TD , yeah I could see not being optimistic. But that's not the case. You can make all the excuses you want, teams not knowing our O , rusty starters, the full moon. Just as I can say if it were not for 3 of our DBs running into each other and a DPI we would have been 4-0.

What you always seem to truly gloss over in that judging the team by the 5-12 record are the INCREDIBLE amount of injuries we had especially on offense. Injuries are a FACT , not an excuse. NO team ever in the history of sports has performed better when 1/2 their players are out with injuries.

Only 1 thing has to change in 2025 for this team to have a winning record
HEALTH, HEALTH HEALTH.
You want to take 2 steps backward so that MAYBE and that's a big MAYBE things fall into our lap ( franchise QB) . You know what taking 2 steps backward does ? Makes it harder for you to gain ground

There are always going to be things and factors that don't go right for a team. The difference between good and bad teams is there ability to overcome these challenges. By most metrics, the most injured team last year wasn't the Saints, but was actually the 15-2 Lions. Injuries sucked, sure. Dennis Allen was really bad, sure. But ever since Brees retired, we've supposedly been one thing away from winning. And while it was fair to chase it in the past, I think over the past 5 years of failure it's been made pretty clear the team has just been bad.

All ties to the past have been cut with the new coaching hires. It's a new era for the Saints. They will try and win now, of course, but they will equally consider what needs to be done to win over the next decade. So expect the staff to focus on improving more than just health.