Better than last year yes, good enough to make a deep playoff run, eh not so fast. The offense will get in gear but the D will be the downfall. I'm just not a fan of either of the ryan brothers. Prove me wrong and I'll be the first to chow down on the crow but I'm pretty sure I'm safe here.

One game does not a defense make my man. Just as 1 bad game won't do the same thing...HOWEVER, there is a reason he was run out of Dallas (with arguably more talent to work with than what he has in NOLA) and a bigger reason he said "I will have a job in 5 minutes" yet that actually turned into closer to 5 weeks, maybe more than that. This was a lets shake the coaching barrel and see what is left at the bottom that we can get on a clearance deal and viola, I give you Rob Ryan.

Like I said, may be wrong, will admit it if I am, but past performance predicts future behavior, expectations, whatever you want to call it. To quote the great Don Henley "I might be wrong...but I'm not, no I'm not"

Ryan's not the worst we could have done, and I have never been a big fan of him either. There is absolutely no denying that his defense, with players learning new schemes and playing new positions, has been THE factor to the Saints winning their first 2 games when the offense couldn't get it done for us. Also consider how banged up they are right now and still getting the job done. They are one injury away from calling me to play D line. Same offense as last year, new defense. The Saints would be 0-2 without that defense. I'd say that's vast improvement.

The defense wasn't the problem in Dallas last year. That's why his firing was so perplexing. Even though they were decimated with injuries, they were still a solid unit.