Bad luck since the SB. Unprecedented (1 Viewer)

[silverbullet]

We all felt the monkey was off our backs as Porter raced to the end zone. But little did we know the next 13 years would produce a streak of bad luck as bad as anything we had experienced prior.

2010: It all started the very next season when the Saints had to travel 2,000 miles across the country as a road team to a freaking 7-9 Seahawks squad. The FIRST 7-9 team to make the playoffs in NFL history.

2011: The Saints finish 13-3 but LOSE the tiebreaker (of course we do) to SF. We then lose Pierre Thomas on the first drive of the game to a dirty hit and choke away a great comeback to lose to Alex Freaking Smith.

2012: Bogus arse bountygate. The most ridiculous penalty and blatant screwjob of all time.

2013: We go 11-5 and are the No. 6 seed...Meanwhile, Green Bay at 8-7-1 and Philly at 10-6 are ranked higher. We also managed to lose a game on a lucky arse final play with a non-hold called against NE and Brady that screwed our seeding.

2014: Don't remember much about this year but we managed to lose 4 games by 3 or less to go 7-9.

2015: Don't remember much bad luck, just atrocious defense.

2016: See 2015, but we got majorly screwed in the Denver game when the blocked kick was not only illegal but the returner clearly stepped out of bounds.

2017: Now the fun starts. We're one pick away from Mahomes and get scooped and then the flukiest of fluke TDs and the Minnesota Miracle is born. What most people won't remember is that we almost completed a trick play with Willie Snead that missed by inches and would have ended the game. Pretty sure we got screwed out of a TD at the end of the first half too but don't remember the details.

2018: The worst call in NFL history.

2019: 13-3 again and once again we don't get the bye. Pretty sure the Saints are the only 13-3 team this has happened to and it's happened twice... And of course we lose to sorry arse Kirk Cousins.

2020: Go 12-4 and get the privilege of playing Tom Brady for the 3rd time. Lose all homefield advantage due to COVID for the entire season.

2021: Get scooped on Mac Jones. Have more starters than any team in NFL history. Likely miss the playoffs because the NFL changes it's COVID rule the week AFTER the Saints have 20 players out. Watch the Niners with an injured QB and no LT come back from 17-0.

Seriously, this team is cursed.

 

[zatsnzapps]

Still worth it.

 

[No2DC]

Nope, we got a ring. I grew up with the paper bag Aints, we haven't been that in a long time.

 

[Moon]

Dude, that's life...enjoy the ride

 

[Shines44]

 

[Deuuuuce]

I think marshawn lynch’s beast mode run against us the year after our superbowl run is the single most haunting memory i have. Even worse than the minnesotta miracle and the rams pi.

 

[kizzy821]

I've always thought 2009 was an anomaly; an exception to the norm.

But it was still fun being able to actually have expectations for all those years afterwards.

Prior to Brees, I didn't have any expectations. I was just happy to have a team to root for. Now I'm stuck between those two worlds. It's weird.

 

[Saints Argentina]

We all felt the monkey was off our backs as Porter raced to the end zone. But little did we know the next 13 years would produce a streak of bad luck as bad as anything we had experienced prior.

2010: It all started the very next season when the Saints had to travel 2,000 miles across the country as a road team to a freaking 7-9 Seahawks squad. The FIRST 7-9 team to make the playoffs in NFL history.

2011: The Saints finish 13-3 but LOSE the tiebreaker (of course we do) to SF. We then lose Pierre Thomas on the first drive of the game to a dirty hit and choke away a great comeback to lose to Alex Freaking Smith.

2012: Bogus arse bountygate. The most ridiculous penalty and blatant screwjob of all time.

2013: We go 11-5 and are the No. 6 seed...Meanwhile, Green Bay at 8-7-1 and Philly at 10-6 are ranked higher. We also managed to lose a game on a lucky arse final play with a non-hold called against NE and Brady that screwed our seeding.

2014: Don't remember much about this year but we managed to lose 4 games by 3 or less to go 7-9.

2015: Don't remember much bad luck, just atrocious defense.

2016: See 2015, but we got majorly screwed in the Denver game when the blocked kick was not only illegal but the returner clearly stepped out of bounds.

2017: Now the fun starts. We're one pick away from Mahomes and get scooped and then the flukiest of fluke TDs and the Minnesota Miracle is born. What most people won't remember is that we almost completed a trick play with Willie Snead that missed by inches and would have ended the game. Pretty sure we got screwed out of a TD at the end of the first half too but don't remember the details.

2018: The worst call in NFL history.

2019: 13-3 again and once again we don't get the bye. Pretty sure the Saints are the only 13-3 team this has happened to and it's happened twice... And of course we lose to sorry arse Kirk Cousins.

2020: Go 12-4 and get the privilege of playing Tom Brady for the 3rd time. Lose all homefield advantage due to COVID for the entire season.

2021: Get scooped on Mac Jones. Have more starters than any team in NFL history. Likely miss the playoffs because the NFL changes it's COVID rule the week AFTER the Saints have 20 players out. Watch the Niners with an injured QB and no LT come back from 17-0.

Seriously, this team is cursed.

2014. We lost the NFC South at home vs Atlanta due to a clear Jimmy Graham TD called as a fumble recoverered by the Falcons. Lost at home vs the 49ers on a bomb by Kaepernik due to a blown coverage on 4th and long and a questionable OPI on Jimmy Graham on a last second hail mary that was completed...

2018: Ben Watson gets appendicitis one or two days before the Rams game. Josh Hill gets injured. We played most of that game with Dan Arnold as our TE, and he dropped a sure TD that would have given us a very comfortable lead.

2019: Seattle was marching down the field to beat the 49ers and give us the first round bye. They were stopped at the 1 yard line and we lost the bye. On the wild card round, we were marching down the field with Taysom running on every snap. SP puts Brees under center and he fumbles on the first play after a bad block by the OL

2020: Taysom and Murray got injured vs the Bears. Against the Bucs the refs were really bad and Deonte Harris gets injured after starting the game on fire.

 

[Dallas_Saint73]

So we are due for some good luck. Next year is the year ladies and gents. We have the defense and have proven that we are capable of winning tough games with backups. We are missing a few pieces, but otherwise are on the cusp of getting right back into the mix of things.

 

[JPSaints87]

This season shows that we are the living proof that we will be a force to be reckon with it come next season.

A breakdown from this bizarre season of ours:
- We lost so many players due to retirements, salary cap, free agencies, injuries, suspensions, COVID.
- played no games in the SuperDome for the 1st month of the season due to the Hurricane
- We set an NFL record for most starters by one team in a season.
-Had put up the worst offensive stats in the Sean Payton's tenure
- started 4 different QBs

And despite all of that:
We finished with a winning record of 9-8 along with a Top 5 elite Defense & 4+ Pro Bowlers. I hope both Coach Payton & Dennis Allen receives contract extensions.

 

[feanor70115]

We all felt the monkey was off our backs as Porter raced to the end zone. But little did we know the next 13 years would produce a streak of bad luck as bad as anything we had experienced prior.

2010: It all started the very next season when the Saints had to travel 2,000 miles across the country as a road team to a freaking 7-9 Seahawks squad. The FIRST 7-9 team to make the playoffs in NFL history.

2011: The Saints finish 13-3 but LOSE the tiebreaker (of course we do) to SF. We then lose Pierre Thomas on the first drive of the game to a dirty hit and choke away a great comeback to lose to Alex Freaking Smith.

2012: Bogus arse bountygate. The most ridiculous penalty and blatant screwjob of all time.

2013: We go 11-5 and are the No. 6 seed...Meanwhile, Green Bay at 8-7-1 and Philly at 10-6 are ranked higher. We also managed to lose a game on a lucky arse final play with a non-hold called against NE and Brady that screwed our seeding.

2014: Don't remember much about this year but we managed to lose 4 games by 3 or less to go 7-9.

2015: Don't remember much bad luck, just atrocious defense.

2016: See 2015, but we got majorly screwed in the Denver game when the blocked kick was not only illegal but the returner clearly stepped out of bounds.

2017: Now the fun starts. We're one pick away from Mahomes and get scooped and then the flukiest of fluke TDs and the Minnesota Miracle is born. What most people won't remember is that we almost completed a trick play with Willie Snead that missed by inches and would have ended the game. Pretty sure we got screwed out of a TD at the end of the first half too but don't remember the details.

2018: The worst call in NFL history.

2019: 13-3 again and once again we don't get the bye. Pretty sure the Saints are the only 13-3 team this has happened to and it's happened twice... And of course we lose to sorry arse Kirk Cousins.

2020: Go 12-4 and get the privilege of playing Tom Brady for the 3rd time. Lose all homefield advantage due to COVID for the entire season.

2021: Get scooped on Mac Jones. Have more starters than any team in NFL history. Likely miss the playoffs because the NFL changes it's COVID rule the week AFTER the Saints have 20 players out. Watch the Niners with an injured QB and no LT come back from 17-0.

Seriously, this team is cursed.

2011: The refs were ##^%%* blind in the SF game - at least whenever SF did something dirty. That set the tone for them allowing the Seahawks to cheat on every play for the next four years.
2013: That NE game was another fix by the officials. They managed to award NE two undeserved possessions on bad calls on the way to ignoring it when the NE lineman clotheslined Junior Gallette on the final play, which should have been a 10-second runoff and end of the game, but which wouldn't have even mattered if NE hadn't had, I repeat, two undeserved possessions.
2017: The 'Minnesota Miracle' was a BS hatchet job by the refs start to finish. That pass would never even have been thrown if the refs had called the obvious penalty when MN lined up offsides on third-and-four on the previous possession, which would have allowed the Saints to run out the clock with a win.

I don't think it's a curse so much as it's obvious that Roger Goodell hates the Saints and, if we know anything about CSP's light blue shirt, the feeling is mutual. There's hardly been a season when the Saints didn't lose at least two games just on unbelievably bad officiating, and in three cases if you count SF were eliminated from the playoffs because of unbelievably bad officiating. It's not coincidence.

 

[DerrickB]

We all felt the monkey was off our backs as Porter raced to the end zone. But little did we know the next 13 years would produce a streak of bad luck as bad as anything we had experienced prior.

2010: It all started the very next season when the Saints had to travel 2,000 miles across the country as a road team to a freaking 7-9 Seahawks squad. The FIRST 7-9 team to make the playoffs in NFL history.

2011: The Saints finish 13-3 but LOSE the tiebreaker (of course we do) to SF. We then lose Pierre Thomas on the first drive of the game to a dirty hit and choke away a great comeback to lose to Alex Freaking Smith.

2012: Bogus arse bountygate. The most ridiculous penalty and blatant screwjob of all time.

2013: We go 11-5 and are the No. 6 seed...Meanwhile, Green Bay at 8-7-1 and Philly at 10-6 are ranked higher. We also managed to lose a game on a lucky arse final play with a non-hold called against NE and Brady that screwed our seeding.

2014: Don't remember much about this year but we managed to lose 4 games by 3 or less to go 7-9.

2015: Don't remember much bad luck, just atrocious defense.

2016: See 2015, but we got majorly screwed in the Denver game when the blocked kick was not only illegal but the returner clearly stepped out of bounds.

2017: Now the fun starts. We're one pick away from Mahomes and get scooped and then the flukiest of fluke TDs and the Minnesota Miracle is born. What most people won't remember is that we almost completed a trick play with Willie Snead that missed by inches and would have ended the game. Pretty sure we got screwed out of a TD at the end of the first half too but don't remember the details.

2018: The worst call in NFL history.

2019: 13-3 again and once again we don't get the bye. Pretty sure the Saints are the only 13-3 team this has happened to and it's happened twice... And of course we lose to sorry arse Kirk Cousins.

2020: Go 12-4 and get the privilege of playing Tom Brady for the 3rd time. Lose all homefield advantage due to COVID for the entire season.

2021: Get scooped on Mac Jones. Have more starters than any team in NFL history. Likely miss the playoffs because the NFL changes it's COVID rule the week AFTER the Saints have 20 players out. Watch the Niners with an injured QB and no LT come back from 17-0.

Seriously, this team is cursed.

WFT, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets would love to have our success. Not cursed at all.

 

[bayoumilitia]

Nope, we got a ring. I grew up with the paper bag Aints, we haven't been that in a long time.

Amen to that

 

[Maik Jeaunz]