We Can Only Blame Ourselves

When you go into a season expecting a championship, you’re destined to be let down.

Saints vs. Packers: A Statistical Showdown

We take a look at the two best offenses in the NFL and breakdown each team position by position.

Wild Card Preview: Saints vs. Seahawks

The New Orleans Saints finished a successful regular season campaign by going 11-5 and earning 5th seed in the playoffs.  The Saints also got the luxury of getting to play the NFC West Champion Seattle Seahawks in the Wild Card Round, who on Sunday night became the first team in NFL history to win their [...]

Monday Night Clincher

The Saints pulled off a great win on the road against the Falcons on Monday night to secure a playoff berth and have a shot at the division title.  Here’s a few things that I noticed from the game. -          Big props to the defense for holding that offense to 215 total yards.  Matt Ryan [...]

The Saints Can Still Be Scary

A few quick observations from the Saints’ 20-10 victory against the Steelers on Halloween night in the Superdome:  -          The offense looked significantly sharper in the 2nd half of the game.  The inability to run the ball really affected our production in the 1st half, but Payton worked out a solid game plan at half [...]

New Orleans @ Tampa Bay Statistics

Offense:   New Orleans Tampa Bay Total ypg 346.8 313.8 Rush ypg 75.6 103.5 Pass ypg 271.2 210.3 Points per game 19.8 18.5 Sacks allowed 8 10 INTs thrown 5 7 Fumbles lost 4 3 The 2010 New Orleans Saints have been quite bland.  Playing against a defense that was giving 29.5 points a game [...]

Lost in the Desert

Defending Super Bowl Champions, coming off a close win against a bad Panthers team and having a week to realize they need to step up their game, facing a rookie quarterback on a struggling Arizona team.  Put it on the board, right?  Well the weeklong oasis in the desert was merely an illusion and the [...]

Saints @ Cardinals Statistical Breakdown (numbers don’t lie)

Offense: Saints Cardinals Total ypg 344 249 Rush ypg 73.3 99.0 Pass ypg 270.8 150 Points per game 19.8 14.5 Sacks allowed 5 15 INTs thrown 2 6 Fumbles lost 2 2 Compared to the high-flying circus that Saints fans have become accustomed to over the last couple of years, this season has been quite [...]

The Training Camp Hype Machine

Every year, the NFL Draft is a chance for fans to savor the sweet smell of football before the long summer layoff.  High draft picks are analyzed and the next season’s depth chart is prematurely projected.  However, it is the late round picks and undrafted free agents who create the most offseason buzz.  Every year, [...]

A New Beginning

                I think all of us in Louisiana are getting pretty tired of hearing about Hurricane Katrina.  Four and a half years have passed and all the national media can talk about is the ‘devastation of Hurricane Katrina’.  We all know it was a bad storm.  We don’t need it shoved down our throats everytime [...]