If you follow other professional sports around the world, you see this a lot. Our team is run like an Old Boy’s club and this worked for a long period of time. But things are too competitive to sit on your laurels. The Saints remind me a lot of Australian Rugby, once the best in the world, and due to old timer management now a laughing stock.
I feel he needs to win 4 of 6 to have a chance at keeping his job. He doesn’t deserve to keep his job. He has filtered out excuses for mediocre play, week after week, for 2 years now and despite spending a pile of cash to give him the QB and other players he wanted the team is not producing wins. It is clear he is not a coach that knows how to win consistently (the record vs the weakest schedule in the NFL says it all), is willing to make the tough management calls (like Carmichael), or inspires confidence in the players (listen to what Kamara is trying to say).
When you are in a game and things are going sideways, the players look to the coach for what to do. DA doesn’t seem to have any answers for them. “Keep doing what your doing.”
I don’t think that firing our coach etc would help get wins at the moment. But some sort of action would at least send a message that this culture of poor effort is not going to be tolerated any longer. If you are happy letting the Falcons use you like a prison bitch, then just keep doing what you are doing.
You are not alone. The team needs a reset not a retool and the only way to kick start management into this process is to have a ruinous season. The coaching staff is not very good, the team is not very motivated, and we need a high draft pick to get a franchise player in the draft. The worst thing we could do is win the Division or have a winning season. It would set us up for more of the same for the next 3-5 years.
I don’t want to see the Saints lose but it could be a good opportunity to play some of our younger players and give them game reps. See what they got.
I don’t think either team has had much else going for them except this rivalry during long periods of time.
And just to top it off at the odd time the Saints were in the league elite, the Falcons were also good and visited the Super Bowl so the competition was still strong.
ATM I am a bit jealous as they seem to have a lot more good young players than us and don’t have Carr’s contract acting like an anchor.
I feel we are in good hands now.
I hoped he would come out of the bye week and perhaps, by letting injuries heal, and having a chance to do a deep delve on game film see that he was missing a lot of open receivers and checking down unnecessarily. Nope. Same mistakes today. Nearly got Olave killed.
Yes. We brought in enough offensive weapons and the qb he wanted. We drafted the secondary he needed and retained the OL he thought would work. The team looks like it is in week 1 of preseason not week 12. Can only blame the coaches for this fiasco of a season.
Really wish there was some more tangible way to show my disgust towards this team.
Same. I hate tanking but 5-12 would give us a shot at Jayden Daniels and if Carr don’t like it he can leave. This coaching staff is awful. They constantly throw the players under the bus by saying ‘poor execution’ but the truth of the matter is by week 12 consistent poor execution is their fault. Just like the poor play calling, poor game plans, and poor player decisions.
The Vikings, Cowboys, Vikings run will really test them. They will either emerge from those weeks playing really well or will have to go back to the drawing board.
Saints, Bears, Broncos should all be pretty easy games for them on paper.
Will come down to team health and how motivated they can become before those final weeks. Can they find some momentum? Will be up to the team leaders.
If you watch the Football Life on Bilicheck you can see great attention to detail in prepping. The guy basically lived in the film room. Like that interception in the SB. Due to incredible preparation and anticipation.
The coaching staff is so bad. Sometimes, I honestly hope we don’t win another game. It is pretty much the only way we will see significant change this offseason.
Nothing works. Saints’ OC is terrible and Oline is terrible. Both need to be replaced. I can’t even begin to judge Carr, who also looks terrible, because these other two things are so bad.
Love for him to be Saints HC. But something tells me DA will linger like a bad smell for another season.
Probably Hill. He just dominates most teams. No one can cover him.
Another big Whippy Do Saint’s moment.
Ben is going to be in high demand. I doubt we have anything that could lure him here.
Carolina will make your eyes bleed.
Detroit will likely thrash us.
They will probably win 3 of those 4 games. Cowboys of course will be real test if they are play off material.
I hope so. We will likely be picking about 12th and JD5 might be on the board. If not I might wait till Round 2 and go for McCarthy or Nix.
JD5 is just the all round best talent that might fall to us. The kid could be a serious game changer for some club. But McCarthy and Nix can both throw into tight windows and are smart players. All 3 might be productive in their own way.