Understanding our broken psyche (or "Why does it still hurt?")
by Comp on Feb 6, 2012 11:46 AM CST
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So I was thinking as I kept reading these fan posts and kept on seeing comments about our loss this year hurting so bad, So I came up with a theory. Read more below the jump....
So I was watching the SB yesterday thinking "Man we would have so creamed the Patriots" and yet I keep feeling this sense of "This ain't right. WE should be there." I think that a lot of it has to do with this sense (that I just can't seem to shake) that this year, this loss just doesn't seem right. Last year's loss to Seattle was a shock and I quickly got over it. (well a lot quicker than this loss anyways). The 2006 loss to the Bears had me in a funk for a while, but again, not like this one has. This time I just keep saying to myself "We SHOULD be there..." and I just can't get past the fact that it feels like destiny has been wronged. The planets aligned but someone forgot to tell Pluto they weren't a planet anymore. So do the rest of you feel like destiny was wronged? Maybe it is the effect of not being a "loser" anymore. Maybe once you have tasted sweetness (SB44) and then tasted sourness (Seattle), maybe the next time you taste sourness it is magnified by the expectance of sweetness that has been denied. Maybe that is the way to put into words how I am feeling. I keep taking a bite out of a grape, but only taste grapefruit. I guess that is what is meant by "sour grapes". Now that the SB is over I can take solace in the fact I won't have to relive it (well not as much anyways). My mood was lightened somewhat by the departure of ** (who rhymes with VW) and I have high hopes for the defense next season. I sooo much need a Two Dat! Perhaps this is what it feels like to root for a championship team. Your expectations become loftier and the losses become more painful and bitter. The further SB44 becomes in the rearview mirror, the more I need to see another SB come into view in the windshield. I guess I will have to learn to adapt. Your thoughts?
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well for me
2006 I was just glad to be there
2010 we had so many injuries through out the year I never thought we would go far
This year I feel we were not only the best team but we would blow out teams in the playoffs and when we started fumbling away our chances I just couldn’t believe it
But give it up to the 49ers they are probably the hardest hitting team I have seen in a long time and they caused those fumbles
by mississippisaintsfan on Feb 6, 2012 12:11 PM CST reply actions
SF really didn't cause the Roby KO fumble (tho he was tackled later and fumbled)
SF didn’t cause Sproles’ PR fumble, non-focus did, I’ll admit they hit hard. Take away those two mistakes and the ten point gift we gave’m. But yes, I feel we would have outscored the Giants in the Dome.
You think you know, and you don't know, and you never, ever, will.-Jim Mora Sr.
I understand ....nothing.-Michael Scott
The Future is Unwritten.-Joe Strummer
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."-Mahatma Gandhi
This was our year
I’ve been saying that all along. The Giants came along and vacuumed up a free Lombardi, left lying around by the Saints, the Packers, and the 49ers. If any of those teams play the Giants ten times, they win nine (except the Saints, who win ten).
Forty seconds…somebody stop me before I turn into a Vikings fan.
What! shall we curse the planets of mishap
That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?
Agree, as usual
Up until Saturday, I was hoping the Giants would win. Underdog and all. But then it hit me: The Giants aren’t a good team. We blew their doors off, embarassed them, made them look like they didn’t belong on the same field!! They were freaking 9-7. The sucked for 2/3 of the season.
I don’t want a team that “played well when it counts” i.e. played well for their last 4 games, to win it all. @#$% that.
It cheapens the trophy, imo.
"They're ready to be like 'Same Old Saints'" - Roman Harper, on each of the New Orleans Saints vanquished foes of 2009
If you go back and look at that Saints/Giants game,
You’ll see it was actually pretty close statistically, with Eli completing 20+ passes in a row in the 2nd half. So I wouldn’t exactly say we blew their doors off.
We blew their doors off
It’s okay…say it with me: “We blew their doors off.”
What! shall we curse the planets of mishap
That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?
by MtnExile on Feb 7, 2012 2:09 PM CST up reply actions 5 recs
Indy = Doors blown off.
Giants = Easy win. But 20+ passes in a row by Eli? I’ve seen the writing on the wall, and it was made with urine……….
I think Eli actually had more passing yards. But Saints had twice the rushing yards + 2 TO.
You have to put those stats into context.
We were blowing them out, and they had to pass. Junk yardage. No way you can spin it any other way…
"They're ready to be like 'Same Old Saints'" - Roman Harper, on each of the New Orleans Saints vanquished foes of 2009
by Hollywoo! on Feb 7, 2012 7:42 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
49-29
doors blown off
In Breesus' name we play
by Breesus Christ Superstar on Feb 8, 2012 6:50 AM CST up reply actions
With ya bro, but I do feel a little vindication w/ Eli
he gets no respect, just like the Saints. And in NYC, the Media Mecca, and cornerstone of the World, Eli has been boo-ed at home games over the years, a kid from a tiny private H.S. in NOLA, so hey NY, remember where u got it.
40 seconds…. friggin aye.
You think you know, and you don't know, and you never, ever, will.-Jim Mora Sr.
I understand ....nothing.-Michael Scott
The Future is Unwritten.-Joe Strummer
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."-Mahatma Gandhi
Grapefruit is actually a pretty sweet fruit
But yes, I still do feel the pain. The football season ended as soon as the Saints gave away their Lombardi
There's a particular thought that helps me cope (after going through a couple of weeks of woulda/coulda/shoulda's)
“Our defense SUCKED!” I’m much more “homer” than Objectivist (b*** me, Ayn Rand), but that’s just the hard reality of this year’s Saints. We had a magnificent offense, but that’s not enough. More years than not, defense wins Championships, and the team with the better defense won the Super Bowl. I don’t begrudge the Giants for advancing to their championship. They obviously did what what it takes, just like we did for the ’09 season. If we were playing the Pats yesterday, could our defense have held their offense to fewer points than our offense would have scored? It would have been one helluva shoot-out, with turnover ratios likely being an extremely relevant factor (maybe with Colston fumbling in yet another big game, a la Green Bay & San Francisco?). My greatest hope is that SpagNOLA brings us what we need to compliment the best offense in the league next year, so that we earn our way to the Super Bowl & win our second championship.
"Dang! The Saints won the Super Bowl!" - my wife, Meso "Happy" Hu Dat.
Addendum:
I may be unjustly pinning a fumble in the 9er’s game on Colston. I was travelling that day & didn’t get to watch the whole game. Nevertheless, my point was that our relatively rare fumbles occurred in big games & bit us in the butt, and that turnover ratios in a SB against the Pats could easily be the deciding factor in the game.
"Dang! The Saints won the Super Bowl!" - my wife, Meso "Happy" Hu Dat.
You want Ayn Rand to rise from the grave and bite you? Kinky.
What! shall we curse the planets of mishap
That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?
Don't go thinking she wouldn't do it, either.
The naughty b——.
--Oh, sure, your name is John, and you're just a hard-working, law-abiding citizen running a s---hole bar where you got... no customers.
--Is bad location.
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by MobileSaint on Feb 8, 2012 8:14 AM CST reply actions 3 recs
If it makes you feel any better...
we’re (well, at least I) am still stinging over the Giants game. Watching the SB I was like “We would be creaming the Patriots!”. I think I moped around for two weeks after our loss…
I am not looking forward to us playing you next year. That whole revenge factor is going to make things a lot tougher.
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