Underhill article: “Saints moves are telling us what they felt the real problem with the team was last season”

Turfie said

Our starting 22 weren’t the problem. It’s the other 31+.

We legit had no WR3 or WR4 at all. Our offensive and defensive lines were thin as paper.

If this was Madden and we could flip injuries off then I’d bet we’d have a fighting chance at playoffs last year.

I also think too much stock was placed in our 2-0 start. Bryce was still in a bad mindset and the Cowboys were nothing more than hot air.

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I can ride with you on most of that, but the 2-0 start wasnt a fluke. Yeah, we werent gonna do that to all 17 teams on our schedule, but we would've been legit competitors.

We started the season with an OL and skill players that complimented Carr. And the defense wasn't left on the field for 2/3 of the game. Losing McCoy followed by Carr followed by Olave, etc... no team is gonna look good after that.

The difference between a winning team and the worst team in the NFL is miniscule. Being down your starting QB is enough to de-rail most teams. Being down a starting QB and half the team probably skews how we look at the talent on our roster. Im guilty of this too. We are not as bad as we looked last year. We're not good, but we arent THAT bad.