Still Very Much in Play

[TheBigKat]

12 minutes ago, Monrowed said:

Vikings lost and we are in now… 7th spot.

How we lost to them, PHI, NYG the is mind numbing

[frankw]

The Saints have a better record than us and they just knocked off the Bucs with Trevor Siemian while we had to dig deep to put away Matty Melt. Maybe if we had put a better effort into the backup qb position there would be more hope but we've got what we've got.

[CRA]

5 minutes ago, frankw said:

The Saints have a better record than us and they just knocked off the Bucs with Trevor Siemian while we had to dig deep to put away Matty Melt. Maybe if we had put a better effort into the backup qb position there would be more hope but we've got what we've got.

Tampa Tom is now 0-3 vs the Saints.  

[kungfoodude]

6 hours ago, joemac said:

I think most reasonable people said .500 at the end of the year would be a huge success. We got spoiled by the 3-0 start. 

Well, this year that would have to be 8-8-1. 

Sparky comments aside, I would be thrilled to finish around .500. Especially since four of the games would be coming against the tough part of our schedule.

[BrianS]

ffs.  Stop it.  Even if some crazy crap happens and we end up in the playoffs we are not a good team yet.  We were never supposed to be.  THIS YEAR.

Next year squeaking into the playoffs should be a reasonable expectation, if we can identify and acquire an NFL QB while fixing the most egregious of our OLine problems.  We aren't going to fix everything next offseason.

[Smittymoose]

8 hours ago, joemac said:

I think most reasonable people said .500 at the end of the year would be a huge success. We got spoiled by the 3-0 start. 

Exactly what I said a couple of weeks ago. 3-0 looked ahead of schedule, but the truth is the build is still on track with 8-9 wins. 

[FugginPoo]

Defense will need to hold teams to 14 points or less 

[Chaos]

Someone please tell me how the Saints beat the Bucs after Crab Legs got injured early in the game.  How'd they do it?  Was TB missing key players?  Didn't see the game.

[Monrowed]

51 minutes ago, Chaos said:

Someone please tell me how the Saints beat the Bucs after Crab Legs got injured early in the game.  How'd they do it?  Was TB missing key players?  Didn't see the game.

I think that they were not prepared for Trevor. He is not great, but is serviceable. Brees was on Football night in America on NBC and said that Trevor is the right guy to run the Saints offense in a pinch. Plus he has played for  the Saints before. 
So the fact that he knows the offense and Tampa probably went into the game without watching any, or very little film on him allowed the Saints offense to play at a similar level that they had been. 
Also, the Saints defense has something on Tampa’s offense. Tom looked confused at times and threw costly INT’s that cost them the game.

[ickmule]

Stop

[BurnNChinn]

9 hours ago, jackson113 said:

Damn it you used my meme!

[Icege]

We're also one win away from matching last season's total, and it just hit halfway thru the season!

[Khyber53]

This is a season that is being greatly defined by injuries. Our last four games were definitely defined by injuries. New Orleans just took a big hit. The same could happen to any of the front runners.

We are, crazily, just at the halfway-ish spot in the season, with a lot of football left to play. A couple of injuries here and there for our opponents could see some weird things happen in the play offs. Once there, well, anything can happen.

Of course, our concussed QB puts a difficult wrinkle into our plans...

[t96]

Playoffs would be nice but I just want to hit 9 wins so that we can have a shot at ending the no back to back winnings seasons curse next year.