Wow, Saints ten and oh. When's the last time they came out so strong?

These are your past complaints, buddy! Enjoy them!

I'll be bumping some threads where I've complained about older Saints teams for the rest of the season.

I certainly didn't. With some of the chuds that are on the schedule later (two against Carolina, the Vikes, the Bengals) the Saints have a real shot at doing something special, record-wise, this year. I mean, hell, with Favre out they could possibly get home field advantage throughout the playoffs. That's something, as a Saints fan, that you only hear about happening for other teams.

well hey... nice effort against the 'Niners today. The 'Aints put together a solid game. 6-1... whoda thunk it after the second-half collapse last year??

They have been utterly unpredictable. They were last year as well. I got involved in one of those survivor things, and picked them after they came from behind to beat the Rams. I mean, that was a great game. A regular team feeds off that emotion and wins the Super Bowl with it.

Their next game out was versus the Jets, and they managed to lose it after Damien Robinson (the same guy who attempted to bring in his hunting rifles to practice a week after the WTC attacks -- he is probably the dumbest human being in the NFL from a pure stupidity standpoint) attempted to rip the head off of Brooks. The word "punk" is oftentimes overused, but that's the kind of move it was. Turley starts whomping on him, Robinson's helmet goes flying, a personal foul is called, the Saints go from like the 10 to the 25, Jets win. Oh, and I, having picked them, lose. Who goes out the very first week in a Survivor pool? Well, that week... *I* did.

I try not to bet for or against them. I place my picks up on Old Man Murray each week and had the Steelers winning that game. I really thought that they'd try to take the week off because an XFL guy was behind center. Hopefully the problem that the Saints have with complacency has been solved.

They have Washington this week and the neat side-angle is that Haslett was one of the guys insulted by Spurrier his first day as an NFL coach. Someone asked Spurrier if he planned on working the 20 hour days that some coaches put in and he laughed it off, saying no frigging way. He then said, "Jim Haslett comes in at 4:30am. It doesn't seem to be doing him much good." HAW HAW LOL LOL, the guy single handedly found a way to repeatedily stop the greatest offense in the history of the NFL, right, he sucks ass STEVE. Anyway, seeing how Frisco managed to drop this clown after he tried to run up the score with his scrubs I am hoping the Saints do the same. But hell, I don't know what's going to happen. In a video game free from injuries, the Saints have Dale Carter, Fred Thomas, Michael Hawthorne, Ken Irvin and Keyou Craver as their corner backs, and can easily play with Washington's aerial assault. In this world the only guy not hurt is Irvin.

That being said, Washington can't play defense and the Saints have primarily aired it out for the first time since 79. Again, I do not know what to expect.

Since I praised the Saints for helping me in my against-the-spread pool, they've:

* lost to the Lions in a week in which they were my top pick to cover.

* Failed to cover in their win over Pittsburgh (another week in which I picked them high).

Thanks, New Orleans. Thanks a lot.

This is why it sucks to be a fan of this historically-miserable organization over the years. 3-0, coming off wins versus three playoff teams from last year, and they go get worked by a Detroit team that, frankly, is the worst squad in the NFL.

The offensive line couldn't pass block. The tight end could not catch a damn ball. Way too many turnovers. No ability of the secondary to cover someone running a frigging seam. Careless use of timeouts (when Brooks called the second one in the 2nd half, he did it to avoid a five yard penalty for delay of game -- when they come back, the right guard commits a false start. Result? Five yard penalty, same as a delay of game. WAY TO GO, MORONS.)

God forbid they put out 16 high-quality efforts. It's reprehensible for a team to be lazy when there are that few games. If they were going to go get butchered by any of the teams they played so far, well, so be it. But to lose against a team with a rookie QB and who had something stupid along the lines of 10 guys out with injuries is just disgusting. The officials even did a fair enough job keeping the Saints in the game at the end, which makes it even worse, I guess.