Yeah… we should have a rule that any Mike Florio link should start with “MF:”.

There needs to be a warning system. :-)

After that horrible performance in THE SUPERBOWL last year, Sean Payton’s got his work cut out for him too!

I hope he can pull another miracle out is a**, and maybe we’ll make it in as a wild card this year.

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Do you smell that?

It’s sarcasm. :-0

I certainly don’t know that the Vikes, Cowboys, and Pack are great teams. In fact, I don’t even know if the Cowboys are a respectable team. In further fact, I think the Boys will suck. Wade Phillips and Tony Romo are gonna have to prove to me that they can lead a team deep into the playoffs. Sure, they finally got over the hump last year and won a playoff game for the first time since the 90’s, but I don’t see how that proves they’ll keep it going next year. The media always hypes them up because they are “America’s Team.” How often in the past decade have they lived up to that expectation? The answer is one, and just barely.

The Saints can’t be considered a great team yet either. They were a great team four months ago and could very much keep it going this season, but they’ll have to prove it on the field like the other 31 teams.

I think the point of this fanshot is to further our hatred of Mike Florio. The guy is a clueless d-bag that obviously has some sort of personal problem with the Saints. I mean, have you read his articles? Never anything nice to say about the black and gold.

this was the first part of a 3 part series.

I was with you up to here:

And the chargers flat out have nobody in their division so they’ll be in by default.

the cowboys? i don’t hate them and i can look at other teams without bias if they’re not playing the saints. A complete team though? The cowboys are in a division with the Giants, the Eagles, and possibly a rising Redskins team. The Redskins are a long shot but will have the chance to mess up the division. The Giants and the Eagles are still competitors even with McNabb and Westbrook leaving. To say they don’t have a chance at winning their division is ridiculous. I think the Vikings are in IF Farvre returns and it seems like he most likely will. GB probably will but as a Wild Card team at best since they are in the same division as the Vikes. To put those 3 on the list, including the GB team that lost a shootout to Arizona who went on to get drummed by the Saints and a Vikings team that lost to us-neither team played great though, ahead of the Saints, the SB defending champs who haven’t lost anyone except for Fujita on D and Bell on O, seems absurd. And the Cowboys?! Missed the playoffs the year before last and like satch said, won it’s first playoff game since the 90s last year. The Saints almost made the SB as recently as 06 before this year. If you put those 3 teams up there and tell the world that all 3 teams will make the playoffs and the Saints wont then the world will disagree.

Florio’s biggest fantasy is to make Chinese fingercuffs with the Chargers and Vikings.

Recent history states that most about half of returning SB champs don’t make the playoffs. Recent history also shows that teams don’t repeat as champions in the NFC south. Saying the Saints don’t make the playoffs isn’t stupidity, it’s probability based on recent historical fact. All of us obviously hope we buck the trend, but the fact is with the target on our backs we’ll have to be even better than last year just to make it to the post season.

It’s obvious you guys hate Florio. But can people please start basing that hate on something factual rather than feelings of “my dad can beat up your dad”.

That might be just a bit mild of a condemnation of his writing, actually…