Do I really need to say more? No. We aren’t. Not right now. Maybe we can get back to there someday, but not right now.

But like any other team prone to brain cramps and momentum swings. No reason to jump overboard just yet. I think we all have been spoiled in a way since that Super Bowl and forget what a normal or substandard team looks like. We are not the Vikings, Dolphins or Colts. We have an elite offence, but if parts of that offence takes the afternoon off, everyone suffers.

Get pumped up to beat up those Buc’s girls and boys. Redemption will be lovely :)

you got to have an elite QB. This is not what I’m seeing since the beginning of the 2010 season…

Barely. This is the Saints MO, lose to horrifically bad teams. Watch the Rams lose big next week.

However, this is a good team in Drew and a good secondary. Porter is starting to become garbage at even being a nickel, but that’s why we drafted JP. Give him a year to learn the ropes, and he’ll replace Porter at nickel as P-Rob becomes a good-great starter in the future. Seriously, I’m loving the P-Rob potential right now.

Also, Saints can go toe-toe with any team in the league right now…so long as they aren’t winless.

Final note, Patriots lost to the Browns last year, like the Saints. Packers lost 6 games last year, to a lot of hapless teams too. Bad luck happens sometimes. It happened Sunday, and if it happens again, then I’ll decide.

“Packers lost 6 games last year”

And during one of the Patriots SB seasons, they won 7 or 8 games by 4 points or less. They weren’t dominant, by any means… but they won it all.

Can we win it all? I’m less sure now. But, yes it’s still possible. We still have a great team.

Great teams aren’t perfect teams.

I look for the Saints to have the red ass and play Tampa with a vengance.
My prediction for the game in the words of Clubber Lang, ’PAIN".

I’m lowering my expectations for the rest of the season. They had all of the look of a team expecting to have a win handed to them on a silver platter. Payton needs to go back to calling plays because Carmichael showed his lack of experience. And Gregg Williams needs to be more selective with his blitzes. I’m ashamed of this team right now and I truly hope they’re ashamed of themselves. If not, the season is lost.

Even if they somehow destroy the Bucs this week, that still won’t erase the memory of this shameful game and the half-ass performance they collectively put forth.

or, conversely, ask the 2009 Saints. Now, if we finish strong, we’re in business. If not, we are like all the others who don’t finish strong. The early season and some of the middle hardly counts. Starting this week, it’s all on the line.

“The Rams were Due”, a win.
Also, noticed the 1st PT run was for positive yds, he goes out, Ivory comes in, runs sideways for a min/no gain. Sproles hasn’t touched the ball. Pass,Pass.Pass, then Ivory no gain. I would have liked to see PT and Sproles establish something early, and maybe give Ivory some touches later, the dude hasn’t seen live gm. action in almost a yr. The Rams were fired up, and we didn’t handle situational play calling very well, same in the TB gm.

miketripletttp Mike Triplett

QB Drew Brees also admitted #Saints aren’t an elite team “right now.” … “We have the ability to be, but we have to prove it …”

Must have been under torture….