Months before the Saint's season ever began, New Orleans Sports Writers were predicting rosy assumptions about the Saints season under first year head coach Dennis Allen. Some saw the Saints winning the division and making the playoffs and that all would be well under the new coach. The Saint's opening game win against Atlanta indicated all was well.
That all changed as the season started to play out and the losses started to mount. Now the reporting from those same writers have turned negative and they have all the answers after the fact but they still don't get it. That's because they lack objectivity in evaluating the Saints. They were blind to the two huge problems the Saints were facing going into the season.
The two huge problems concern the two most important people with the team, the head coach and the quarterback. The Saints entered the season with a head coach void of a winning record as a head coach so it was impossible to predict how well he and the team would do. It was and still is a situation of "time will tell." The Saints have no quarterback on their roster that has completed one full season as a Saints starting quarterback, so there is no record to indicate Winston could do the job. Plus, everyone knows he is injury prone, missed a good part of last season and has played only 3 games so far this year because of being injured.
In other words, the two most important people with the team has no real winning record to be judged which means the Saints season was bound to be a "wait and see" season. What has taken place at quarterback should have never taken place. Blame management for not signing a young promising quarterback 3 or 4 years before Brees retired so they would have a better quality at that position. And make no mistake, management knew the Brees era was coming to an end.
For those who believe Allen's experience as a defensive coordinator qualifies him to be a successful head coach is sadly mistaken. Picking the Saints to win their division and or making the playoffs was a nice dream far from realty and not very objective.
Politidose commentary was there and told the real story months before the season even started.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
