Morale being a Saints fan during these tough times (3 Viewers)

[Fiyo]

It could be worse, you could also be a Pels fan.

True Dat … and Me Dat …

 

[OldTimeGamer1966]

I struggled when Drew left I kind of just quit following the team and then when Sean left, I just was very indifferent to Saints football. This year I returned to following them again but with a very different whatever happens is fine attitude. If they win another championship fine and if they don't fine but my Sundays aren't ruined anymore after the game is over, I just go and do other things and wait until next week.

For over 2 decades I was here every day now I pop in and out, more lately, but I don't hang around all day after a loss and get mad and post all day and night in frustration. After 30 plus years you learn to take it in stride. I do however long for the glory days but those are gone and hopefully we all get to experience it again someday soon.

 

[jasonsw]

I was playing High School baseball from '89-'92 and loved The Bash brothers. Especially jose. My high school number was 33 because of him. LOL

But like you have lost interest in MLB. I haven't even watched the World Series the last few years.

Same here. It's partly because baseball is so terrible now and also my Angels suck.in every way possible. There are no true pitching Aces anymore, Star players always getting injured. Players have poor fundamentals, lack of situational baseball plays i.e sac flies, bunts or stealing a base on a fake bunt.

Very few players know how to hit anymore.

You can't tell me pitching is better now than it was in the 90s or even early 2000s. It isnt. There are no.nolan Ryan's, Maddux, Glavine, Randy Johnson that can pitch 8 innings on a regular basis. 6 innings was the bare minimum expected from a starter. Now they get heaped praise for pitching 5 innings. And announcers say it's remarkable they threw 90 pitches tonight

 

[Saint Spud]

I feel better now than five days ago.

I feel like we finally abandoned a direction that had zero chance of working and are trying something that could give us some reason to hope moving forward.

And if none of it works this year, we start over. And the last time our organization was in this bad of a shape (or worse), we hired the guy who completely changed the culture and brought us our first Super Bowl.

So…it stinks for now, but at least we know we’re not gonna “keep doin what we’re doin.”

 

[SaintStephen1]

Just gotta be patient with the organization. I’m just looking for them to increase their draft capital by trading down multiple times in the next 2-3 drafts to infuse the team with numbers of quality players rather than banking on drafting 1 player per round in the hopes that all of them hit. This team needs 10-12 potential starters over the next couple of years not just 5 or six. Not gonna tun this around without multiple young assets!

 

[UFCSaint]

Every Saints fan from the 70's and 80's: "Hold my beer..."

 

[BCK30]

It could be worse, you could also be a Pels fan.

Don't get me started on them!!! I'm probably in the minority here but I'd trade Zion before Brandon Ingram!!! Zion for all his talent is always injured, always missing games and just isn't dependable.

 

[SystemShock]

Since bountygate and up to the start of this season, I had a lackadaisical attitude towards football. I'd watch the Saints games, and have my fun in the gameday board, but after the game was over, that was that.

The start of this season did bring me back to that feeling in 2009 when the Saints habitually dropped 40 burgers. But by the 8th game, I was already back in lackadaisical mode.

So, I'm good.

 

[Rexman100]

It's a lot better without DA here. Should be a more interesting brand of football. DA football teams were the worst thing a team can be... boring. This is worse than being bad.

I don't think the Saints will win many football games. They probably will have the same record these final games as they would with DA. Because He doesn't win games, he loses them.

What we will see is probably more competitive games. More creativity and aggressiveness.

It seemed like with his teams DA was afraid of the team making mistakes. You know what despite his overly conservative approach. They still made plenty of those. A team that is uptight due to coaching will almost always fold during critical moments in the game.

If mistakes happen from taking good calculated risk, this is OK. The team can learn from it and do better next time. Plus, it will be a more interesting product to watch.

Right, the coaches vibe needs to be consistent on and off the field. If the coach originally gets them fired up to play for him, but on the field coaches a scared game. Then the message conflicts and the coach is deemed a phony going forward. Or just a weak man. It’s been said and written thousands of times that a team takes on the personality of the coach. It’s true.

 

[solarbear88]

I think my morale was so low prefiring because we all knew DA was just going to come out and do exactly the same thing next week and the week after. Things were never going to look different.

And we all knew it. We knew what the gameplan would be. Where everyone would lineup and play. How much effort they'd give. What the Defense would do. And what the offense would try to do. It would look largely the same from week to week.

We also knew that if it was 3rd and long we'd fail to get it. We knew we'd be aiming for FG rather than td. And we'd get penalties repeatedly killing drives.

 

[SuperSaint]

We've seen tough times before. We'll get through this.

Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.

 

[Clintonrebel]

I was playing High School baseball from '89-'92 and loved The Bash brothers. Especially jose. My high school number was 33 because of him. LOL

But like you have lost interest in MLB. I haven't even watched the World Series the last few years.

I have not watched an MLB game since they pulled the All Star game from Atlanta.

 

[Saintgirlytake2]

Icame on in the Ditka era
era and this doesn't feel worse. I am ìntriged by Rizzi!

 

[GeauxSainz]

I will never be a fan of an NBA team or the league I call the WWENBA

Amen.

It’s Predators hockey for me!

 

[GeauxSainz]

I am an A's fan since the early 70's. I actually remember when Reggie Jackson played for them and Ricky Henderson was always my favorite player. However after the Steroid issue in the late 90's and early 200's I lost interest in the MLB

I was a Braves fan but lost interest when MLB went on strike in the 90s. Actually have a good friend that was in AAA w/ the Phillies at the time. Some great stories.