What seemed to be Jim Haslett's downfall?

Impregnating a cheer leader. He didn't give a shite after a while.

Was Haslett the one that passed on Jake Delhomme?

his addiction to smelling salts

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Katrina certainly didn't help things.

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Hell, Jim Haslett had run his course in NOLA long before Kartina came through.

Katrina was just a convenient excuse to completely start over.

2000 his first year was his apex and that was really because of Randy Mueller and to a lesser extent Mike McCarthy. Haslett was a terrible HC, especially when he didn't have competent personnel people in place to get talent.

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I still can’t believe they missed the playoffs in 2002. They were 9-4 and only had to win ONE of the last 3 games to make the playoffs, and didn’t.

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Didn't he play an injured Brooks over Jake. If I remember correctly Jake came in for a game sealing third down pass and everyone thought he was finally taking over just for Brooks to come back and shite the bed.

The last 3 games of 2002 where we missed the playoffs because of his stubbornness to play Brooks over Delhomme. And then following that last game in his post game presser, he blamed the fans for not cheering for Brooks. That's when I had a feeling the honeymoon was over.

That first year he was here we had a defense that was pretty legit they knew how to get after the quarterback.

Then in the next couple of years they just got weaker and weaker.

I'm not saying the offense was great by any means but it was decent we had a good run game that one year would deuce and 03 I think.

But yeah that defense went from really good that first year to just mediocre by the time he left.

Aaron Brooks

He gave up on Jeff Blake too soon in favor of a young Aaron Brooks who showed promise. Blake got hurt, but was a good QB imo that could throw 1 of the most beautiful long bomb throws you ever wanna see. But Aaron Brook replaces him in a game that Blake got hurt in, and looks really good and composed for such a young QB and the rest is history.

but Haslett's teams had some good defenses that were dominating at times with the Heavy Lunch Bunch or something like that as they were called back then on the DLine which mostly consisted of (big Norman Hand, Grady Jackson, and Martin Chase). Tough as nails La'Roi Glover was the All-Pro DT playing next to Hand, but La'Roi wasn't big like Hand, Jackson, and Chase. La'Roi was smallish for a DT at 6'2-280-285 if you wanna call that small. The Saints had some great nicknames for players and their offensive-defensive teams like the Heavy Lunch Bunch, Dome Patrol on defense and the Chuckwagon beef Oline with big W Roaf, Thunder & Lightning (Rbs Muncie & Galbreath). Players nicknames Cajun Cannon (Hebert), Breesus (y'all know who that is), the Beerman (M Lewis), Quietstorm (M Colston), and the flying Frenchman (Pierre Thomas).


But they were a dominating defensive line, Haslett specialized in that though, he had a great defensive mind as a coach. His defensive teams were always dominating at times.

Paying brooks