The New Orleans Saints are tired of going 7-9. New Orleans has finished the year 7-9 in each of the last three seasons as its high-powered offense continues to be sabotaged by an ineffective defense. On offense, the team was ranked 1st in 2014, 2nd in 2015, and 1st in 2016. However, on defense New Orleans was ranked 31st in 2014, 31st in 2015, and 27th in 2016. The Saints made some moves in the offseason to try to finally address those issues, but we’ll see how those pan out.
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Key Factors For Winning the Super Bowl
Drew Brees Staying Healthy – Brees has started all but two games since joining New Orleans in 2016, but is reaching the age where quarterbacks start to trend downhill. He has shown no signs of being slowed yet though. He has thrown for at least 4,300 yards in every season with the Saints and has led the NFL in passing yards in five of the past six years. However, his offensive line is young and inexperienced and he is projected to have a rookie starting at left tackle for him. Brees has limited mobility these days and one big hit could throw this team’s offense into disarray.
Replacing Brandin Cooks – The front office didn’t think they had much of a chance of re-signing Cooks at the end of the season, so the Saints decided to get what they could for him. New Orleans dealt him to New England for a first-round pick and are now hoping that Michael Thomas is the real deal. Thomas was almost as productive as Cooks was last season, but also benefited from not being the primary focus of opposing teams’ secondaries. He will be the Saints No. 1 receiver now and won’t get much help from a relatively shallow receiving corps. New Orleans signed Ted Ginn this offseason, but he drops too many passes and no longer has the top-end speed that made him a first-round pick in the first place.
Continued Success in the Running Game – Sean Payton decided to complement starter Mark Ingram with two other pieces this offseason. The Saints signed long-time Vikings star Adrian Peterson and used a third-round draft pick on Alvin Kamara. Peterson can no longer carry the load and is an injury risk after barely playing two of the past three seasons, but should be good in limited action. He is still a powerful runner that can make strong cuts and find daylight to run. The addition of Kamara gives New Orleans a more natural receiving threat at running back. He will be used often in that role when the Saints spread the field and he can get mismatches.
A Pulse on Defense – This secondary continues to get torched no matter what the Saints do. New Orleans used a first-round pick on Marshon Lattimore in hopes of shoring up the unit, but the cornerbacks are still a huge question mark. PJ Williams and Delvin Breaux both suffered injuries that caused them to miss most of last season and there is no depth behind them. The hope is for the defensive line to get enough pressure to shore up the deficiencies in the back end, but that plan has yet to bear fruit. It seems unlikely to yet again in 2017.
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