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I'm as excited about this coming season than I have any season since I became a fan in 88. Win lose or Draw I am a saints fan, if we don't win or don't win enough games it still does not take away from the individuals players who perform great or young players who may become the staple players once the team starts to win again.
Post like these are so strange to me because it just sounds like people are truly fans of this team they are bandwagon fans who rooted for them because they won and its easy to get behind a winner but if the team falls back to the "same ole saints" era people will be jumping off the bandwagon where I WILL be still rooting for this team because this is MY Team.
I think it’s totally opposite, us old timers who’ve been following the saints since the 70s or longer have seen both sides of the saints, as a fan starting 88 you have really never seen the bad years, the Mora years were good respectable teams, the front office and coaching were on par with what we had now, we were missing a hall of fame qb. We don’t want to regress back to the old saints where we went through coaches and QBs like the bengles and browns. It’s going to be a rough couple of years and we will have growing pains. We don’t have a starting QB that can carry this team and our D will take a step or 2 back with the loss of players and age creeping in.
Also what people don’t realize is our O line has been pretty good but 9 made them great with his calls and ability to read the D and move in the pocket. People don’t realize how important of a leader that Brees was on the field, in the locker room and in the community. We don’t have a face anymore and it’s frightening as a fan and sad in a way. It feels different to me also because I don’t have it in me to go back to a Browns type team. Brady showed everyone that BB was a good coach but Brady made them an elite team.
Leadership at the QB position puts teams over the top. We better draft that leader.