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Saints are 248-470 without Payton, or .340 winning percentage. We are returning to our norm.

Ironically, DAs last victory was the Saints 400th in team history. We are so bad this wasn’t posted or celebrated anywhere.
Seriously?
It’s been one year and you’re going back to that mentality?
The Baghead Years?
It’s 2022. Not 1982.
 
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Bruhhhhhhhh. I love my Saints. Bleed Black & Gold but I've been forged in the crucible of painful inexplicable loses, horrible officiating, injuries and just plain bad luck.

Do you remember when we were playing the 49ers, Jerry Rice was running and spiked the ball at like the 3-5 yard line, then ran into the endzone holding his hands up as if he scored a TD, and the official who was standing RIGHT there (had been running alongside the play), looked at the ball, the yard line, Rice and then the his hands up like it was a Touchdown?!?!?

Smh.
No, I don’t. I wasn’t alive.
 
Not since the days before Drew Brees and Sean Payton have we seen a gridiron exhibition from our Saints like the debacle last night.

Older Saints fans can remember with all too painful regularity how the black and gold would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Many of us remember the River City Relay not only as the huge letdown that it was, but also for the fact that we'd gotten that close... A massive improvement over the perennial sad sacks of the league. Jim Mora quitting mid season long before Petrino did the same to the falcons. Once Archie Manning left there was a revolving door of ineptitude at the position until Jim Hazlett brought in Jeff Blake who played far beyond the average fan's hopes... Until he was lost for the season with a broken ankle. In stepped Aaron Brooks, a journeyman backup we'd picked up from from the Packers. Well, he played well enough to demand a renegotiation, and then the smirks and laughter after an interception or a backwards pass just didn't sit well with folks who were tired of saying yearly, "Maybe next year".

There usually was reason to hope for the next year. We were going to draft early, and maybe we could FINALLY get that one piece we always seemed to be lacking. A new coach... Something.

Well, I'm still as diehard as I've been for years, but the writing on the wall is becoming painfully easy to read:

Having traded our first round pick next year to philly, our best hope for an early pick this coming draft is negotiating with the team that bids highest for Sean Payton. Unfortunately, once we negotiate with them, I suspect that some of the folks negotiating on our behalf may just find themselves on the staff of whichever club wins his services... How fair a deal will we be getting with that possible result in the near future?

I'm not saying this is fact, but the very real potential is there. And certainly would seem the luck of the long standing fans of New Orleans. The final straw? With dwindling odds of a talented roster in coming years (cap issues, a coaching staff that should be flushed, moreso than canned) what are the odds that we, the faithful get the coach we deserve...

I fear we're going to have a few "rebuilding years" ahead of us just to become competitive again.

Welcome back to what Saints fandom was like "way back when".

Still...

GEAUX SAINTS!!

You must be 11 if you think this is my father's Saints.

My father's Saints went 1 and 13 and 2 and 12 most of the time. Not only that, but they weren't even close to winning most games.

This team is Jim Haslett's Saints so I guess if you're 30 it's your father's Saints, but my dad is 83 and he's had season tickets since day 1 and they've been mine for almost 25 years.

Into every life a few rain drops must fall. Lighten up.
 
Not since the days before Drew Brees and Sean Payton have we seen a gridiron exhibition from our Saints like the debacle last night.

Older Saints fans can remember with all too painful regularity how the black and gold would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Many of us remember the River City Relay not only as the huge letdown that it was, but also for the fact that we'd gotten that close... A massive improvement over the perennial sad sacks of the league. Jim Mora quitting mid season long before Petrino did the same to the falcons. Once Archie Manning left there was a revolving door of ineptitude at the position until Jim Hazlett brought in Jeff Blake who played far beyond the average fan's hopes... Until he was lost for the season with a broken ankle. In stepped Aaron Brooks, a journeyman backup we'd picked up from from the Packers. Well, he played well enough to demand a renegotiation, and then the smirks and laughter after an interception or a backwards pass just didn't sit well with folks who were tired of saying yearly, "Maybe next year".

There usually was reason to hope for the next year. We were going to draft early, and maybe we could FINALLY get that one piece we always seemed to be lacking. A new coach... Something.

Well, I'm still as diehard as I've been for years, but the writing on the wall is becoming painfully easy to read:

Having traded our first round pick next year to philly, our best hope for an early pick this coming draft is negotiating with the team that bids highest for Sean Payton. Unfortunately, once we negotiate with them, I suspect that some of the folks negotiating on our behalf may just find themselves on the staff of whichever club wins his services... How fair a deal will we be getting with that possible result in the near future?

I'm not saying this is fact, but the very real potential is there. And certainly would seem the luck of the long standing fans of New Orleans. The final straw? With dwindling odds of a talented roster in coming years (cap issues, a coaching staff that should be flushed, moreso than canned) what are the odds that we, the faithful get the coach we deserve...

I fear we're going to have a few "rebuilding years" ahead of us just to become competitive again.

Welcome back to what Saints fandom was like "way back when".

Still...

GEAUX SAINTS!!
I remember the days where we would have given an arm and a leg just to have had the opportunity to give the game away at the end. All I can remember is having lost the game by the 1st quarter.
 
Not since before Tom Benson, Jim Finks and Jim Mora have we seen seasons like this one. I will give Mike Dika a below average grade in there but he did manage to get our pot smoker into a wedding dress!
People will say Ditka was bad and he was. But with those teams you expected losing. They lacked talent in every area imaginable

D.A took what should of been a playoff team. Even with the injuries and A.D as starting Qb straight down to the cellar. After the Tampa Game in week two you could sense this team was going nowhere. Late in that game the season and the team made a turn for the worse.
 
Not since the days before Drew Brees and Sean Payton have we seen a gridiron exhibition from our Saints like the debacle last night.

Older Saints fans can remember with all too painful regularity how the black and gold would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Many of us remember the River City Relay not only as the huge letdown that it was, but also for the fact that we'd gotten that close... A massive improvement over the perennial sad sacks of the league. Jim Mora quitting mid season long before Petrino did the same to the falcons. Once Archie Manning left there was a revolving door of ineptitude at the position until Jim Hazlett brought in Jeff Blake who played far beyond the average fan's hopes... Until he was lost for the season with a broken ankle. In stepped Aaron Brooks, a journeyman backup we'd picked up from from the Packers. Well, he played well enough to demand a renegotiation, and then the smirks and laughter after an interception or a backwards pass just didn't sit well with folks who were tired of saying yearly, "Maybe next year".

There usually was reason to hope for the next year. We were going to draft early, and maybe we could FINALLY get that one piece we always seemed to be lacking. A new coach... Something.

Well, I'm still as diehard as I've been for years, but the writing on the wall is becoming painfully easy to read:

Having traded our first round pick next year to philly, our best hope for an early pick this coming draft is negotiating with the team that bids highest for Sean Payton. Unfortunately, once we negotiate with them, I suspect that some of the folks negotiating on our behalf may just find themselves on the staff of whichever club wins his services... How fair a deal will we be getting with that possible result in the near future?

I'm not saying this is fact, but the very real potential is there. And certainly would seem the luck of the long standing fans of New Orleans. The final straw? With dwindling odds of a talented roster in coming years (cap issues, a coaching staff that should be flushed, moreso than canned) what are the odds that we, the faithful get the coach we deserve...

I fear we're going to have a few "rebuilding years" ahead of us just to become competitive again.

Welcome back to what Saints fandom was like "way back when".

Still...

GEAUX SAINTS!!
I understand that losing was some sort of tradition in NOLA, but it´s not the case anymore. You lost the two people that made this franchise great, but there is a new tradition and a new way of doing things that I hope doesn´t simply disintegrate without Brees and Payton in the building.
 

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