The New Orleans Saints season is mercifully over. It was a tumultuous season as the Saints find themselves at the bottom of the NFC South for the first time in a decade and a half.
The Saints fired Dennis Allen after a loss to the Carolina Panthers. It marks the first time had to replace a head coach in the middle of the season for the first time since 1996.
Injuries to Alvin Kamara, Chris Olave, Derek Carr, Erik McCoy, and Rashid Shaheed hampered the offense and made for a much less enjoyable product. How different would the win column look is unknown, but the product does look better with those players on the field.
New Orleans outscored their opponents by 62 points in the first two weeks. They finished the season being outscored by 60 points by their opponents. They say, “it’s not how you start. It’s how you finish.”
Well…
Here is where every team in the NFC South finished and key stats for all four teams: