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re: What do we make of only one primetime game?

Posted on 5/15/26 at 1:57 pm to
Posted by goatmilker
Castle Anthrax
Member since Feb 2009
76462 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 1:57 pm to
Would say we are getting better.
Posted by DamageInc
Member since Jan 2025
1105 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 1:58 pm to
The Dennis Allen saints got a couple years of unearned prime time games due to our history and now the current era will get snubbed for a couple years. There’s always lag with this stuff.
Posted by stopitnow1
Florida
Member since Mar 2013
2410 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 2:19 pm to
In 2024 we were 5-12 and in 2025 6-11. Thats the reason. Consecutive years of a bad records combined with us not playing big opponents except for the Bears, Maybe the Lions, maybe the Ravens, and Greenbay. If we go undefeated going into the Bears game I think we get 2 of our 12pm games flexed. Who knows though, if we are dominating games we might get a flex with the Vikings in week 5.
Posted by Athis
I AM Charlie Kirk....
Member since Aug 2016
16416 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 2:36 pm to
What sends me into orbit is the Cowboys getting 6 games... I turn the game off when the Cowboys are on...
I am OK with the Saints getting one PT game.. I mean they really didn't do shite last year... If they do well this year and don't more than one game next year then we can get pissed...
Posted by Tank77
Member since Mar 2019
834 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 3:07 pm to
What’s the problem?
Posted by WheyCheddar
Member since Aug 2024
1468 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 3:21 pm to
I think it is highly unlikely the Saints win more than 7 or 8 games. They will be much more entertaining to watch than any team DAllen produced, but they still don’t have the numbers.
The future looks bright, but this team is still a year (and another good draft) from being better than mediocre.
I know the fanboys here won’t like it, and I don’t give a shite. The team will be competitive and entertaining this year, but they ain’t winning shite.
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
122847 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 4:03 pm to
Did you ever wear your bag into the dome
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
47456 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 4:37 pm to
Meh, I'd personally prefer every game to be on Sunday at noon if that wasn't generally an indicator of how bad the team is. Guess I am alone in that.
Posted by WheyCheddar
Member since Aug 2024
1468 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 5:50 pm to
Nope, but the team sure did suck for about 70% of the season (cough, cough, RATTLER!, cough, cough)
Posted by Lester Earl
3rd Ward
Member since Nov 2003
290861 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 6:36 pm to
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First you have to look at our opponents and if there is any history there they can push a story for in primetime, or a story about this QB vs that QB. Then you project how good our team and our opponents' teams will be.


Nah, you have it backwards. If you have to defend on the opponent then you do not have any appeal.

Superstars, and Good teams playing one another have appeal.
Posted by Townedrunkard
Member since Jan 2019
15055 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 7:10 pm to
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What’s the problem?


Kool Aid a superstar ? His ceiling is probably just a solid #2 in the league.
Posted by uptowntiger84
uptown
Member since Jul 2011
5491 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 7:24 pm to
The Saints have 0 Superstars on the roster. Primetime games are for teams that have Superstars and can draw in viewers. Now if they get on a roll and win some games, im sure the NFL will flex a game or 2 at the end of the year to get some exposure for Shough if he's the next young QB Superstar.
Posted by Tank77
Member since Mar 2019
834 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:34 pm to
Never said he was superstar. I said it’s there for the taking. It’s up to him to go get it.
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
122847 posts
Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:13 pm to
The prime time schedule is usually dogshit. What are we even doing here.
Posted by SenGooner
Member since Feb 2026
98 posts
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:09 am to
I can see us getting flexed into one later in the year. 1 in the regular is fine. We will have 2-3 primetime postseason games.

Let the rest of the league sleep, until it's too late and all of a sudden the Saints are marching into the NFC Championship game.
Posted by Lester Earl
3rd Ward
Member since Nov 2003
290861 posts
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:51 am to
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The prime time schedule is usually dogshit. What are we even doing here.



its pretty irrelevant unless you have season tickets.
Posted by saintsfan1977
Arkansas, from Cajun country
Member since Jun 2010
10345 posts
Posted on 5/16/26 at 3:48 pm to
We got 6 wins last year. You think the fricking Browns are getting a prime time game? Until we get to 8 wins like the other 3 division teams we don't need any. We shouldn't have got 1 to be honest.
Posted by Handsome Pete
Member since Apr 2019
2598 posts
Posted on 5/16/26 at 4:25 pm to
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We got 6 wins last year. You think the fricking Browns are getting a prime time game? Until we get to 8 wins...
The fricking Giants won 3 games last year and got 4 fricking prime time games this season. fricking explain fricking that.
Posted by saintsfan1977
Arkansas, from Cajun country
Member since Jun 2010
10345 posts
Posted on 5/16/26 at 6:00 pm to
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fricking explain fricking that.
It's New York. Huge market. Nobody gives 2 fricks about the Saints except in Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama. We will get plenty of PT games if we win 10 or more.

I used the Browns as an example because nobody outside of Cleveland gives a shite about the browns. Same with Cincinnati. Those 2 franchises are always going to be bottom feeders. I'll be surprised if they ever win a SB.
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 6:02 pm
Posted by WheyCheddar
Member since Aug 2024
1468 posts
Posted on 5/16/26 at 6:14 pm to
8 million people vs 370,000?
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