9-8 so much better than 7-10 (2 Viewers)

[SystemShock]

and no matter what anyone says we finished the season as WINNERS!

WINNERS! go to the playoffs.

 

[WhoDat?DrewDat]

What he said.

8th pick probably lands you one of the top 2 OT, top 3 DL or top 4 QB.

Absolutely massive difference between picking 8th and 14th.

 

[woohoosaint]

Not for the long run IMO

 

[ilvdsnts]

. They're really a lot alike except 7-10 gets you a better draft position.

And an easier schedule next year.

 

[boutte]

I think if you watched them go 20 years without a single winning season you probably have a different perspective of the difference between 9-8 and 8-9.

 

[SweetT]

“The so called easiest schedule” has literally been researched now that the season is over and when comparing it to the historical data it checks out as the 14th easiest schedule since 2001.

Different years are measured differently. Too may different variables to say they are measured equally. We had a disgustingly easy season. No if, and, or buts about it. We got beat by Love, Dobbs, Mayfield, and Ridder. In no dimension should a talented team like ours lose to all 4 of those dudes in the same season. Somehow, we once again managed to defy odds.

 

[Judge_Smails]

We also beat the Colts and they also finished with a winning record..

I remember how pumped we all were after that win.

 

[Judge_Smails]

I think if you watched them go 20 years without a single winning season you probably have a different perspective of the difference between 9-8 and 8-9.

I’ve been a fan, watched and attended games for more than 20 years (life long fan, born in 68), but I think that when a GM and promoted HC say we’re still on a championship window and they go 7/10 and 9-8, the next two years, missing the playoffs both times - then that is a lot different from guys like me and you “believing” and being positive after Bum flirted with more than mediocrity, but never delivered.

 

[los226]

Different years are measured differently. Too may different variables to say they are measured equally. We had a disgustingly easy season. No if, and, or buts about it. We got beat by Love, Dobbs, Mayfield, and Ridder. In no dimension should a talented team like ours lose to all 4 of those dudes in the same season. Somehow, we once again managed to defy odds.

@ GB

Won the turnover battle
Won the penalty battle
Scored a special teams TD
Lead by 17pts in the 4th quarter

2023 Saints defying odds like no other

 

[sfidc3]

I think if you watched them go 20 years without a single winning season you probably have a different perspective of the difference between 9-8 and 8-9.

I've been watching the team since 1969/1970, the earliest I can remember.....

The fact that we had perhaps the worst owner in the NFL and we knew the Saints would be bad every year, they didn't "underachieve" because they were just bad, we all lived with that......

As is so often the case, time and situations change.....my perspective on the season given the roster, the so-called improvements to, the ease of schedule, and the weak division is that 9-8, and missing the playoffs entirely? It was pretty much a train wreck of a season.....because we all know that the team was capable of much, much better......

 

[boutte]

I've been watching the team since 1969/1970, the earliest I can remember.....

The fact that we had perhaps the worst owner in the NFL and we knew the Saints would be bad every year, they didn't "underachieve" because they were just bad, we all lived with that......

As is so often the case, time and situations change.....my perspective on the season given the roster, the so-called improvements to, the ease of schedule, and the weak division is that 9-8, and missing the playoffs entirely? It was pretty much a train wreck of a season.....because we all know that the team was capable of much, much better......

I don't disagree.

 

[BBarnes]

Yeah I know many are complaining about not making the playoffs despite the so called easy schedule the Saints had this season and rightfully so. But let’s assume the Saints had lost their last two games and finished 7-10 again. What good would that have done? I mean the word was Allen was returning no matter what happened in those last two games. So maybe I’m in the minority here but finishing 9-8 feels so much better than 7-10 and no matter what anyone says we finished the season as WINNERS! I’ll worry about next season when it comes time to.

Huge difference in 6 spots in the draft and it gave reassurance to our GM that he’s right and we don’t have a clown at HC

 

[perret318]

Yeah I know many are complaining about not making the playoffs despite the so called easy schedule the Saints had

"so-called easy" implies that it really wasn't. In reality, it actually was statistically, provably one of the easiest schedules in the last decade.