INGLEWOOD — It’s somewhat fair to say that the Saints’ season is on life support. I can’t say he’s dead yet, but we’re almost there. New Orleans lost its sixth straight game and is 2-6 on the season. You might say that things can and do have their time under different circumstances, but that’s simply not the truth here. This team is lost and has no answers, and I don’t know how many other ways you can say something needs to change. But the surface level problem suggests that nothing will happen.

Dennis Allen said: “We’ll be back, we’ll get to work, hopefully we’ll get a few more players back and hopefully we’ll start playing better football.” in question at the post-match press conference.

There’s that word again. Hope. The Saints’ business strategy is to hope that when they get more men they will play better football. They took it back this week, no change. They also lost more men.

You are now in a position where you need to win 7 of the last 9 games to get to a 9-8 spot, hoping the chips will fall your way. Spoiler alert. They won’t. The Saints are the second-worst team in the NFC and the Giants will play on Monday Night Football. Change is necessary but change is not coming.

Allen made it clear that change would only come with what he had. “It’s the people in the room who need to change this,” Allen said in a message to the team. He then said they needed to do a better job of coaching the details. The problem is that this is a recurring theme. These games are starting to look like movies Groundhog Day. It’s the same product on the field and they can’t do much.

played defense betterBut we had a lot of difficulty offensively. They had chances and opportunities. Even if they didn’t score points, the game started the way you wanted as they moved the ball early. You saw how many self-inflicted injuries there were and those 7 penalties for 66 yards were huge.

Now add more injuries to a team plagued by injuries. For every two steps taken forward, at least five are taken back. Kendre Miller also injured her other hamstring. Marshon Lattimore re-aggravated his hamstring. Juwan Johnson was evaluated for a concussion. Bub Means hurt his ankle at the end of the game. Rico Payton has a back injury and Adam Prentice is dealing with something from what we saw after the game.

There will be no magical meetings for the saints behind closed doors either. Dennis Allen says he doesn’t have to talk to general manager Mickey Loomis anymore because he chats with him every day. This has become one of the worst teams in the NFL and they have no answers that will change the narrative. I thought they hit bottom last week, but maybe I was wrong. This outfit is the equivalent of what a street in New Orleans looks like after a Mardi Gras parade, and it looks like we’re okay with that right now.