Lots of people here want to discuss team performance honestly and objectively. For awhile this has been one of the most objective sports boards I've read.

"This team is garbage."

"Fire everyone. Drew needs to retire now."

"This team is going to lose out."

Those are unjustified melts as you say, and really nothing more than posters thriving off of spreading negativity. Discussing crappy offensive line play the last two games, talking about why we can't take the top off of a defense, needing Ginn/Armstead back, etc. are all good discussion topics. All the other stuff is just annoying.

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But something is off with this team right now. I hope we get it figured out, because we need to go 3-0 to end the year.

I don't necessarily agree with this. While the Saints have definitely played flat offensively over the last three games, the defense has played at an elite level without question. The Saints offense under Payton/Brees have always been streaky. When they're hot they're hot, and when they're not, you look at bad plays and just scratch your head (Brees' interception yesterday, for example). That being said, I think all of that is attributable to easily identified problems: bad offensive line play, lack of a deep threat, etc. It's not as if the team just started sucking all of the sudden.

The reason I'm not overly concerned about it is because a.) I know that a Brees/Payton offense can get hot immediately and then streak through the playoffs, and yesterday's second half could've been it, and b.) we have the defense to hold us over until that point. Numerous Saints teams in the past have faltered because of crap defense and the Brees/Payton machine coming off of a streak. If the defense keeps doing what they're doing, that's not going to happen this year.

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Posted by geauxtigers87

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Posted on 12/10/18 at 10:56 am to bluemoons

You'll end up be crucified for this thread but you're 100% right. They looked like shite for 6 quarters and it looked like it was going to be 2 full games until the blocked punt.

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Posted by BilJ

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Posted on 12/10/18 at 12:31 pm to bluemoons

I mean we’re just at the time of year where everyone is kind of off. The Rams really haven’t looked good in a few weeks, everyone fears the Bears again forgetting Eli was able to thrash them, Cowboys easily could have lost to an eagles team we tea bagged.... It’s all about survival right now, not style points. Survive and get to the bye

The D is playing well and the offense has a long history of being productive, not worried.

I don’t blame anyone pissed off about that first half yesterday though

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Posted by nola000

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Member since Dec 2014

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Posted on 12/10/18 at 12:39 pm to bluemoons

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I don't necessarily agree with this. While the Saints have definitely played flat offensively over the last three games, the defense has played at an elite level without question. The Saints offense under Payton/Brees have always been streaky. When they're hot they're hot, and when they're not, you look at bad plays and just scratch your head (Brees' interception yesterday, for example). That being said, I think all of that is attributable to easily identified problems: bad offensive line play, lack of a deep threat, etc. It's not as if the team just started sucking all of the sudden.

The reason I'm not overly concerned about it is because a.) I know that a Brees/Payton offense can get hot immediately and then streak through the playoffs, and yesterday's second half could've been it, and b.) we have the defense to hold us over until that point. Numerous Saints teams in the past have faltered because of crap defense and the Brees/Payton machine coming off of a streak. If the defense keeps doing what they're doing, that's not going to happen this year.