Found February 06, 2012 on The Saints Nation: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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I've got a number of things I want to talk about so be forewarned, there's numerous topics discussed in this blog post. Here are the 8 topics I want to touch on, so I hope you're ready to spend your Monday reading about the Saints.1. Super Bowl thoughts - So the Giants won last night in what I thought was a very boring game. Neither team really took chances and they were both satisfied attempting to play mistake free football. I felt like both teams played an incredibly conservative football game trying "not to lose". I will say the final Patriot Hail Mary was an exciting play and a good way to end it, though. As disgusted as I am that the Giants won as a 9-7 team that the Saints pummelled, you have to at least take solice in the fact that any team that makes the playoffs can win. The Giants proved that. Were they a good team? Yes. But they were also probably one of the weakest Super Bowl champions of all time. What that says is anything can happen once you get...
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