Saints Win 22-17 in Close Game with Titans

But honestly, if it weren’t for the idiot refs this game would have been over in the first half.

seriously, and why the heck was colston out of that 4th down drive on 3rd down…baffled x2

and he’s just standing there dumbfounded with a ‘What the hell?’ look on his face. Hint : It wasn’t a hold.

Flag happy was the view from my living room. Sean wouldn’t take his chances on that last challenge because he would have been left with none, but isn’t it weird that we gave up one to “think” about whether to challenge and it would have cost us both if he’d challenged and lost?

Felt one sided to me, but I don’t know anymore whether I’m just too much of a fan of my team sometimes. Generally, I think officiating hasn’t been bad all year. But, I’m not sure saying that is new either.

His fourth or fifth roughing the passer penalty this year, when they are deemed ticky tacky by most people watching, including the booth guys who seem to salivate anything more interesting than a Saints offensive juggernaut.

That is..until the Refs ruined it for us

But that pass at the end there was so close to being a pick-six my jaw dropped 2 feet like a cartoon character. Even Payton had a look on his face like ’You’ve gotta be &*&^% kidding me!’.

How about a congrats to the Texans for securing a playoff spot for the first time in history

Scott said Dean McCondichie, who produces the team’s television show, “Titans All Access,” has evidence of the whistle-blowing.

“Dean’s got it on tape,” Scott said. “Somebody was blowing a whistle on the sideline. There is audio of it, so we’ll let it go from there. The second to last drive I think.”

I’ll need to see that tape (tape? really? Who uses tape anymore?) before believing this. Maybe it was someone in the stands right behind the Saints’ bench? Let’s see the proof.

Here’s something else from that link:

Titans receiver Nate Washington also took exception to the play of New Orleans safety Roman Harper, who was called for a facemask on a tackle of Damian Williams that kept Williams out of the end zone after a 54-yard catch-and-run.

“Honestly, he’s a dirty player,” Washington said. "We watched film on him, he’s dirty. And I don’t appreciate it, I’m going to step out in public and say it: He’s dirty.

“That was dirty what he did, it’s unfortunate that he grabbed the facemask — at the same time you don’t walk over a guy and nudge him with your knee. You don’t do that. That’s dirty. And honestly, that’s a dirty player, flat out. This is not just one game. He’s been doing it all season. And I’m tired of it. I hope the league did something about it.”

That’s some accusation, Nate. I haven’t heard anyone else accuse Harper of being dirty.

Thanks for the link. I didn’t see that before.

sounds like some BS to me and I seriously doubt that any saints personal, player or staff, would have anything to do with that. Most likely a fan behind the saints bench, if not digitally rereated on the ‘tape’. Take the loss like a team should. As far as them commenting on Harper, when I rewatched that play, the facemask on washington, yeah he gets the facemask but when they come together there is a lot of body movement. I imagine that it was accidental and was just trying to make the play while out of position. The sack by harper was to hasselbecks chin, i’ll give them that but anyone could have made the play and doesn’t mean they’re dirty.

The game was penalty filled and the saints need to clean that up for sure. The offense was struggling as well….On that final 4th quarter drive, why was Colston out and the offense in max protect with only two out routes?? On a 3rd and 5?

Are we going to meet in the Super bowl or something?

OK, obviously, I’m being snarky, of course I care if there was cheating. But, no one pushing this story cares whether or not they can prove anything and if that just raises doubt to the proper level then all’s good? Where are they going to find this supposed whistle blower. A whistle blower blows whistle about a whistle being blown…..has evidence….of a whistle being blown….that’s at least ironic enough for a chuckle, no?

If it’s provable, and I’ll say not one of these vague, throw your hands up ‘cause no one can tell, but proof that something happened and the Saints were behind it. I really wouldn’t like that and would happily speak against it and hope anybody gets what they deserve but this reads like so much silliness.

Sour meet grapes.

…don’t know how anyone could blame a couple of phantom whistles.

So all the Saints players knew about it before hand and the whistle blower made sure to blow it only loud enough for the Titans players to hear but not for the refs to hear. Soungs totally legit.

As much as I hate too, I’d cheer my head off for the Steelers to beat the 49ers

But, we want a lot more than that.

Cards get the ball back with under 2 minutes left, no timeouts for San Fran!

All we really need is one more Falcons loss.

Obviously winning out would do it.

The minimum to get the division would be one more win for us and one more loss for Atlanta. That does not have to be head-to-head, by the way. If Atlanta would be kind enough to lose to Jax (yeah, OK, not bloody likely, but then I didn’t really think SF would lose today either, despite hoping for it with a passion) and we beat Minny that would do it.

Alternately, two more wins for the Saints would also do it. If we beat Minny and Carolina, that would be enough, even if Atlanta wins all three of their remaining games. Beating us on that MNF game would only give them one game of make-up. Of course, it would also make me puke my guts up as well. But it still wouldn’t matter.

I’m still in the “lets just win out” mode. And if SF would be kind enough to lose one more game out of their next three and we do manage to win out, #2 seed here we come!

pam oliver didn’t say anything.. the 4th ref.. didn’t hear it.. the other 3 refs didn’t hear it.. but the miked-up guy & their local beat video guy did.. even thru the mike..?
the refs would have stopped play immediately.. & give the bench a warning if they couldn’t determine where it was coming from.. that tells me they did not hear anything..
not to say that whistle-man couldn’t have made his way to TN.. & he was messing them up.. if that’s the case.. he’s a genius.. on top of his obvious whistling talent..