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

SweetT said

3 of those 7 games in the losing streak was winnable, despite injuries. That HC was finding historical ways to lose. Does anyone not remember this? It was major headlines!!! 3 one score games. All 3 of those games we lost by three points or less. Why are we blaming injuries again? Our team was just not good. Good teams finds ways to win. DA has proved that he couldn’t get his team to seize the moment. Pulling out one score games, especially 3 points or less, instills confidence in a team. Once a team drops easily winnable games, doubts start to creep in. It was already in the back of their minds from previous years. Injuries is just an excuse. We had opportunities to win games.

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Friend, I think we’re more in agreement than disagreement. Yes, I remember those close, winnable games. I also remember those two freakish wins to start the season. I have measured opinions about them, but a bad team could not roll those two teams like we did. The Eagles game followed and we should have won that one, too, even as our o-line was being destroyed. The McCoy injury was more significant than I’d have imagined, but in hindsight that Eagles D-line destroyed the mighty Fighting Mahomeses so we may not have been that bad. Another huge factor in that game was the loss of Taysom. He really did cover for a lot of our weaknesses and our O-line was overall weak even when healthy.

Where we differ on opinion is the injury “excuses” vs “factors”. A certain degree of injuries is to be expected. What we had was insane, especially on offense. Good teams would have been better at dealing with it, but I’ll bring up the Super Bowl Niners stout roster could not.

On defense that sharp decline was more on coaching as they were reasonably healthy.

And why are you bashing DA? I thought you really liked him. Weren’t you always referring to him as “Dear”? 😁