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Well, it was great when it lasted.
The party the New Orleans Saints and their fans waited more than four decades to throw has officially ended when the Seattle Seahawks eliminated them from the 2011 NFL playoffs, bringing forth the sobering reality of an offseason devoid of celebration and full of re-evaluation.
The stunning fashion in which the New Orleans Saints (11-6) relinquished their title of defending champs—a 41-36 loss at Seattle (8-9) on Saturday—had more to do with an uncharacteristically lousy day on defense than anything else. Yet the Saints still must address several matters that troubled them long before they were upset by a Seahawks club that was the first NFL division winner with a losing record and opened the playoffs as 10-point home underdogs.
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Even as Drew Brees and an injury-riddled offense put together a solid overall outing, the Saints’ season-long struggles with the running game continued. Perhaps most unsettling was the performance of Reggie Bush, who entered the postseason expecting to shoulder the load of the Saints’ running game but instead went to the locker room after taking a hit to his lower right leg, an area where he fractured a bone early in the regular season.
While X-rays were negative, it was the latest example of the electrifying athlete’s struggle to prove he can be reliable or consistent.
“It just flared up on me a little bit and I couldn’t...''
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