You’d be forgiven for finding something else to do with your Monday night than watch the New Orleans Saints collapse in front of a national audience. They gave up an early double-digit lead to the visiting Baltimore Ravens and never rallied back to make it a competitive game. The defense that Dennis Allen was hired as head coach to maintain never really asserted itself against Lamar Jackson, one of the game’s best young quarterbacks. Now they’re 3-6 through the first nine weeks, matching the same win total Allen posted in his first two years with the Raiders way back when.
It’s one thing to be a bad team getting outplayed each week. It’s another if your team is boring but effective. It’s something else entirely if you’re losing twice as many games as you’re winning and fans are tuning out to catch up on their Netflix backlog instead of sitting through a lost cause.
