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Originally Posted by Sainters7
The craziest part is the Saints have done this while leading the entire league in most players on IR, with 18. Seven of their 11 opening day starters on D are on IR, that's insane for an 11 win division champ. Okafor opposite Cam Jordan at DE was having a fantastic year until he went down on IR, I'd love to see the Saints line next year with him and Nick Fairley back.
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Didn't the Saints hit a bit of cap hell coupled with the bounty gate punishments that really slowed them down for a few years. Prior to that Loomis had built a really talaneted team around Brees.
From what I remember off the top of my head about last year's Saints is that they lost quite a few close games. The Raiders 2 point conversion as an example. Even than they still won 7 games. I think they had 3 straight 7-9 seasons so it's not like they are two years away from winning 2 games.
They added some key pieces on D as well as beefed up their run game to keep the unit off the field. As you say their draft class from 2017 shows huge potential.
I'll be interested to see how they do this weekend. They beat the Panthers both times but it's hard to beat the same team 3 times in the same season. Carolina also seems to bounce back after they play badly, so will they do that here? Of all the teams on the NFC side that are in the playoffs, Brees is the QB I would trust the most by far.