Viewpoint: A little perspective on the Saints’ loss

“The Saints’ loss to the Cowboys Saturday night was a bummer, that’s all there is to it,” The Times-Picayune writes. “But that initial feeling of disappointment couldn’t last. One loss out of 14? There’s no way to be down about that. As Heather Elizabeth Wright worked the art market at New Orleans’ Palmer Park Sunday, she predicted that fans would start to feel better pretty quickly. The way she saw it, we just needed a moment to get over the idea of a perfect season. Perfection was tantalizing. It felt so good winning week after week after week after week. But, come on, if anyone had told any of us a year ago that the Saints would be 13-1 and have a good shot to get home field advantage throughout the playoffs, we’d have been wildly excited. Which is what we’d all been — until the Saints crashed into Dallas. “Sometimes when you’re flying so high, that bump in the road seems more like a Lakeview-sized pothole,” Peter Thriffiley wrote Monday on his Blackened Out blog. The loss was only a bump in the road, not a pothole big enough to swallow your car. Shoot, by Sunday night, things were already looking rosier.” To read the full column, click here.