Is this artice extreme or is this the truth?

Didn't read the article, but I agree with the forecast. I'm not saying we are the Aints again, but there has been a decline since 2011. Definitely the Super Bowl team's era is over.

I just read it and think it has some truth, but its also not that bad. It seems like the golden age of Saints football is drawing to an end but it will never be paper bag bad. I have thought about the post superbowl performance before but I don't think this game or even the past few seasons put us in a tail spin we cannot pull up from. Also, it was written by a saints fan in Houston and he admits to starting to write it before the game was even over. Things will get better.

I honestly think that was extreme.

We're all stinging from the loss, and it's easy to overreact.
The guy even admitted he started writing it at halftime.

I don't think we're a playoff team, certainly.
But the future is hardly set in stone.

Right now it feels like Truth.... guess we'll see.

7 rounds of top five draft picks would certainly go a long way towards fixing it though... just sayin'.

Sean Payton hasn't progressed and the league has caught up to him. The plays are all the same. 5 yard pitch backs on a short 3rd down as an example.

Rob Ryan has actually regressed. The D-Line seems to not have any push and our corners are shite (except Lewis).

Drew Brees (and I will forever love that man) isn't throwing it as accurate or with as much zip. And he's making some seriously stupid fricking decisions. And why are we not taking more shots down the field when we have Stills and Cooks? Is it because Brees can't make the throws? I really hope that isn't the case.

But to me, it goes back to Payton. This is on him. The fake punt last night was seriously dumber than anything I have seen even Les Miles do.

Nah sadly its spot on and true. Run is over. Time to rebuild

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Forecast: The Saints, as we know them, are over

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I don't know about all that...to me the Saints right now feel like a good team that just doesn't feel like it can win. Kind of like a good MLB hitter with a career .290 average that is on a 20-game slump and feels like he can't drive anything. It sucks when you get the yips. I think the Saints have the yips.

While the forecast speaks exactly what most of us feel, i don't look at it with the doom and gloom as "The Saints Area Dead". The organization has grown too much in the last ten years under Payton and Loomis to not be able to rebuild it.

Right now there are some talented pieces on defense. Offense you have a top TE, and a solid young RB corps. We need to begin transition from the Brees era effective next season. Time to start looking at young arms, big fast young wrs, and adding lots of OL depth.

Defensively, someone to start at the CB2, and some better LB's. We also need a more consistent defensive scheme.

I feel confident in the Saints front office to do so. I just hope there is money in the coffers to do so given the contracts we have to veteran players.

Part of the issue on offense is that lately our defense gets us down early and makes us become somewhat one dimensional on O. Defenses slide into a cover 2 forcing everything to be short to intermediate routes.

Hard to dispute when you let a shitty team, like the Cowboys, with no defense beat you.

A few years of poor drafting and bad free agent signings have doomed us. That, along with the myth that great players will always be great.