If you can change one moment (3 Viewers)

[St.Dan]

Easy...TLL needed to lay on the ground and play dead after the PI on the NO Call...he would've at least gotten a defenseless receiver penalty

Or WOULD he? Cue the X-Files theme !

 

[St.Dan]

The 2010 Beast Quake play should be top 5. Not above “No Call” or “MM”, but I think the road to a repeat SB was very possible. GB was the only other quality NFC team and the Steelers were the AFC champs.

We ran out of healthy RBs that year, hence the trade up for Ingram the following year. The Two Dat everyone here wanted was just not possible.

 

[Heard_Dat]

Decided to dig deep to find a different Saints What If? You guys nailed all the ones that first come to mind. So I'm going back to 2000...

What if Jeff Blake doesn't get hurt against the Raiders...
The Saints are 7-3 going into that game, a look at both guys stats from that year, which are pretty similar, I will admit. Coming out of the Ditka years and being really too young to appreicate the early 90s teams, I just remember Jeff Blake and Rickey Williams making the Saints exciting again. Good times!

No.	Player	Age	piece of work	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	QBR	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD
18	Jeff Blake	30	QB	11	11	7-4-0	184	302	60.9	2025	13	4.3	9	3	49	6.7	6.2	11.0	184.1	82.7		24	150	7.4	5.75	5.31	1	1
2	Aaron Brooks	24	qb	8	5	3-2-0	113	194	58.2	1514	9	4.6	6	3.1	53	7.8	7.3	13.4	189.3	85.7		15	94	7.2	6.79	6.36	1	2

 

[eaglefreak]

Vernon Davis' TD in 2011
Or
The no call
Or
Minny Miracle

Same here for me. I still can’t get over those moments. At a minimum, you change any of those and we have another Lombardi trophy.

 

[Sailorsaint]

The no call is, of course, rightly at the forefront of all our desires, but here is a big what if....What if JW doesn't get hurt this season? Sure, we didn't have much in the way of WR/TE, but TH managed to win a game or two with them, and JW was really looking good up that point. Plus, look at our defense this year!! I really believe we could have made a LOT of noise in the playoffs this year with a healthy JW at the helm.

 

[dvdman]

Vernon Davis' TD in 2011
Or
The no call
Or
Minny Miracle

All excellent choices!

 

[boutte]

Not passing on Lawrence Taylor.

THAT would have changed the Saints’ trajectory for an entire decade... not just one season.

JMO.

Imagine - Round 1 LT. Rd 2 Rickey Jackson.

 

[boutte]

When it comes to the "Miracle" the real story is actually another no call.
Before we were forced to kick the FG Brees drew the Minni DL off sides and we would have had a 1st down. We could have run the clock down then kicked FG with no time left and won the game.

 

[Day1]

This painful thread makes me feel like an old(er) person lamenting all of their ailments. And Saints fans got ailments. Lansford. Ugh.

 

[Reggie09MVP]

The miracle, the no call and Vernon Davis TD easy top 3 for me.
The Cook fumble against the Bucs in the playoffs up there too.
Great thread

 

[OneBigEasy!!]

Not passing on Lawrence Taylor.

THAT would have changed the Saints’ trajectory for an entire decade... not just one season.

JMO.

Perhaps but then we wouldn’t have drafted the City Champ

 

[boutte]

Perhaps but then we wouldn’t have drafted the City Champ

i still dream about Doug Atkins and Bubba Smith in '67.

 

[Hey BAY BAY!!!]

That Nola no call and signing of multiple FA that didn't pan out like Jarius Byrd and Jason David to name a few.. Pathetic!!

 

[Le_fleur_fan_78]

The miracle, the no call and Vernon Davis TD easy top 3 for me.
The Cook fumble against the Bucs in the playoffs up there too.
Great thread

Oof, how great would it have been to have Drew beat Tom head to head? For me, that was the worst reality of that game ending like it did.

 

[ilvdsnts]

Instead of trading our entire 1999 draft (and then some) to move up to pick RW, I would instead trade our entire 2020 draft (and then some) to trade up to pick Joe Cool.