The tragedy of the 2010 season (3 Viewers)

[Chopper Man]

I thought we put our best foot forward in the Steelers game.

 

[GoldRush26]

The tragedy (travesty) of the season so far, which now includes the entire regular season, is that we truly just didn't get to find out how good this team is. Not one game where we truly put our best foot forward and on the pedal all game long. It's really the first time you can say such about a Payton/Brees team, even the years of mediocrity (07-08) produced games where those respective versions of the Saints self actualized for several games.

We got to see hints of it this season- 1st half at Tampa and versus Seattle, 2nd half against Pitt, quarters of outstanding play at Dallas early and St. Louis. But never even close to a full game.

Whatever else happens this season, whether we are good enough to win another SB (I am confident that we are, with points to spare) or consistent enough (from what I have seen this season, without a more balanced offense I am confident we are not), I do want to see the 2010 version of the Saints put it all together, at least once. See what you got, don't leave it to wonder how good your squad truly was for the rest of your careers (as more than a few of these Saints won't be back next year and may never be in such an advantageous position for the rest of their career).

God help the other team if they do manage to bring it.

We are what we are, which is 11-5. Last year we got the turnovers and the breaks and avoided a lot of crucial injuries, this year we didn't. The difference is 2 wins. It's not really hard to understand at all.

 

[AceD]

Tragedy is relative, and always too strong a word for football regardless of what happens (short of a Dennis Byrd situation). So it is poorly worded and only relative to the product.

But this whole thing about "just be happy to outperform other past SB winners" is, again, to me quite ridiculous. Are we the 02 Bucs with Dilfer at the helm? The 05 Steelers who lost 20+ players to free agency and who were an average team that got hot? The 07 Giants?

We essentially returned our entire team intact, and had one of the weakest schedules in NFL history. We didn't lose our assistant coaches to HC jobs. We have one of, if not the, best QB's in the league.

I happen to think that our situation more closely resembles some of the other winners of the decade, with our stability and HofF QB. Wonder if Belicheck would have been happy with the 05 seed after the 04 season, or the Colts after the 07 season? Something tells me otherwise...

 

[Guitarzan]

Special Teams, especially kick coverage and punt returns were just awful... this is the worse special teams unit that I can remember since... ever

 

[Bayouvette]

you can't have a complete game if you dont have the complete team

but its amazing how spoiled people have gotten in 1 year..

we are 11-5 defending champs back in the playoffs and have never put a complete game together.

Thats impressive to me. I'm very happy