DrewDawg said:
Well, for NO, they had lost 5 straight home games. Last year they beat Tampa twice, once in OT and once by 3, in a game that required coming back from a 13 point 4th quarter deficit. Why is Rex Ryan's history against Brady (even though he's like 1-7 in his last 8) more relevant than NO's home troubles and tough games last year against TB? Also, NO was 7-9 last year (won only 9 of last 23 games) but seem to be still given deference they maybe don't deserve anymore. Not until they right themselves.
The Miami and Baltimore were defensible (although Miami required a 4th quarter punt return TD to beat Washington in week 1), but I would not have wanted to load up on both of them.
And saving a team until week 10 just strikes me as putting the cart 18 miles ahead of the horse.
My main point though is that the Saints suck and everyone should cross them off any list they have of teams to always look at until they start winning again.
The problem is that while you may have come to the correct conclusion and others might have agreed with you, getting 20-40 other strangers on an interweb message board to agree to forego a 10.5 point favorite is going to be a pretty tough task.