Monday night’s blowout loss did more than anything else to prove the lights were too bright for the team Mickey Loomis built. But that’s just the latest example in a disturbing trend. This year’s New Orleans Saints team didn’t show up in three prime time games.
The Saints lost 34-0 to the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. That’s after they were beaten 33-10 by their old coach Sean Payton on a Thursday night game earlier this season. And that followed a 26-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on another Monday night early this year. All told, the Saints have been outscored 93-23 across those three prime-time features.
And their fans deserve better. The Saints fans who are traveling to see those games and buying tickets and making time to tune in deserve better. The coaches Loomis has hired and the quarterbacks he has signed and drafted haven’t gotten the job done. Whether it’s Dennis Allen or Darren Rizzi and Derek Carr or Spencer Rattler, the product just hasn’t been good enough.
Right now the Saints are 2-5 on Monday nights since Drew Brees retired. They’re 3-9 on Monday, Thursday, and Sunday nights since 2021. Good teams show up for those games. Great ones win. The team representing New Orleans doesn’t fit either of those descriptions. Something needs to change, and it should start at the top of the organization where Loomis has made decisions leading to these results.