Well, we knew as soon as there was one performance in which the New Orleans Saints were never really in it, the haters would come crawling from below the rotten wood deck like roaches crawling out of the dark, steamy concrete into the light during the middle of a French Quarter summer night.

And here they are. Following the 26-13 Monday night loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, Who Dats were loud and proud on a special “Mano E Tuesday,” of the (Ep. 291) . Of course, host Jim Derry had plenty of responses to the hundreds of comments we received this morning.

Will their thoughts change much if the Saints get it together and defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday to get back to .500 – or God forbid if they win the next two games at home (including against Sean Payton’s Denver Broncos a week from Thursday) and are at 4-3? There’s only one way to find out …

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction

4:40 Opening thoughts

19:15 Derek Carr and his injury

26:55 Jim gets on soapbox

24:50 Tuesday with Gabe

35:15 The comments roll in

52:20 Dennis Allen’s issues

1:02:35 More reaction

1:07:55 Jim lists REAL problems

1:17:35 Final thoughts

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