The Saints struggles

Can Drew Brees and the Saints turn it around?

New Orleans Saints was at an all-time fan high coming off the Super Bowl win over Indianapolis Colts. There was Saints flags from New Orleans to Mobile to Beaumont all finally proud of being known as a Saints fan. Flash forward to now and the Saints seem to be back to being the Saints of old.  The Saints can still throw the ball as they are 5th in the NFL in passing but they are 27th in rushing. They can not win unless they can rush the football. They are coming off a lost this past weekend to the Cleveland Browns where Drew Brees threw three picks to a Browns defense that is not near the top of the league or known as being a scary defense. Right now they find themselves in third place of the NFC South, a division that is not strong at all. If you look at the Saints schedule and see all who they have beaten you can not be impressed at all. They beat a 2-4 Minnesota team, a 1-6 49ers squad, 1-5 Carolina, and a 4-2 Tampa Bay team. They beat the Vikings, 49ers, and Carolina by a combine ten points. They have beat three of the leagues worst team by a total of ten points. How is that even encouraging? The only team with a winning record they beat was 4-2, and granted they beat them 31-6 but this past weekend they let a rookie quarterback come into the dome and dominate them. Saints defense was a weak point last year but came up with big plays when needed but now it is just a hindrance. Granted running-back Pierre Thomas has been hurt but i did not know their offense was Pierre Thomas. He is an important part of it but not near all of it. You have receivers in Lance Moore, Robert Meachem, and Pro Bowler Marques Colston, the cub-bard is not dry from anything and o yeah on top of that they have Chris Ivory still in the back field. So its not like Drew Brees is throwing some shrubs off the middle school team. Luckily for the Saints there last nine games only two of them are against teams with great defenses (Pittsburgh and Baltimore). So they have seven very winnable games and should make the playoffs but i would not count on them to really go deep into the playoffs. O yeah and i don't think Atlanta is going to give up the division that easily. T