Anyone else sort of feel unexcited about the upcoming season?

Was thinking the same thing recently. Through no fault of the team, something has just been taken away from the game for me. I'm sure the excitement will mostly come back once the season starts, but definitely less than in years' past.

The league’s “shite happens” attitude ruined it for me. I’ll watch the Saints as entertainment but not invest in it like I have in the past. It’s apparent that some things are scripted in the league office.

I'm with you a bit. It's gonna be a grind to get back to where we were in the playoffs the last 2 years.

Love the Saints. I’ll ramp up when we get close to preseason.

Lol no way. This could be Brees last season. Ride or die.

Between the no call and Ingram leaving I am very flat with the Saints and the NFL in general.

Agree with you 100% and it's not just the fact we blew such a good chance. It's just hard to have sustained success in the NFL. We just had two really really good chances to play for our second SB. We had two really great seasons and it's just hard to have a third in a row. I know we did 09-11 but it's hard for so many reasons.

Sometimes the additions of certain players and loss of certain players can help or hurt you. We made some good moves on paper but we suffered what could be some key losses in personnel, especially some locker room leaders. I still feel good about our chances but we've also had decent luck with injuries. Look at the Falcons and those back to back good seasons they had with the SB berth and Divisional playoffs the year after. Both years they were hardly injured. Then last year they had some devastating injuries and pretty much ruined a whole season.

I'm not saying that will happen to us, but there are so many reasons and things that get in the way of a team being successful. We just had a perfect, gift wrapped second Lombardi and it just didn't go our way, after a season where almost everything did go our way. Not everything will go our way again. It doesn't have to, but last year felt like destiny. We were on a mission. You could just feel it. It felt special. This doesn't feel like that and probably won't unless we reel off 8 or 9 wins in a row. No. This feels like the swan song for the golden era of Saints football

I'm the same way. I've felt it all year. The Pelicans rebirth has definitely contributed to the lack of enthusiasm for the Saints. I'm more excited about basketball than the Saints and the Saints can easily win a Super Bowl this year. But it's like every time I start to think about the Saints my mind goes back to January and I quickly think about something else. That will definitely go away once preseason starts, but yes it is very different than how I normally am. It's actually refreshing to be honest

P.S. If the fans feel like this, than so do the players. You always hear how hard it is to recover from tough losses, but that doesn't always carry over to fans. So I have a feeling we'll have a big hump to get over once we start.

The way the Saints have been eliminated the past two seasons is deflating as frick. It's even worse given that we all realize the timeline with Drew is nearing an end.

Nope.
I don't follow much of the other sports throughout the year. Saints/LSU football is my thing and I can't freaking wait for September.