Instances are robust for the New Orleans Saints with 5 straight losses after a 2-0 begin, together with a 33-10 drubbing by the hands of the Denver Broncos on Thursday evening in Sean Payton’s first recreation again on the Superdome since he left the group after the 2021 season.

Broncos kicker Wil Lutz, who performed for the Saints from 2016 to ’22, appeared to take a dig at New Orleans head coach Dennis Allen in response to a submit on X about how Lutz was getting jeered by followers within the Superdome.

Saints running back Alvin Kamara had no problem with the response from the home crowd to anything that happened on Thursday, telling reporters after the game he “can’t blame them” because “they’re fed up” with what they’ve seen.

There was some optimism around the Saints at the start of the season. New offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak seemed to unlock this unit, to the point they were averaging 4.33 factors per drive and scored on 15 consecutive possessions via their first two video games.

It seems that will have been a mixture of small-sample dimension randomness and enjoying in opposition to the defenses for the Carolina Panthers and Dallas Cowboys in Weeks 1 and a couple of.

After scoring 91 factors in these two wins, the Saints have scored a complete of 86 factors throughout this five-game shedding streak. They’ve been held to fewer than 300 yards of offense thrice previously 5 weeks.

A number of the offensive woes could be defined by having Spencer Rattler beginning at quarterback instead of the injured Derek Carr, however they have been on a downward trajectory earlier than Carr injured his indirect in Week 5 in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.

On prime of the poor efficiency from the offense, the Saints protection is having an abysmal run proper now.

Contemplating that Allen has a defensive background, together with seven seasons as defensive coordinator in New Orleans earlier than succeeding Sean Payton as head coach in January 2022, it is not a shock that Saints followers won’t be feeling nice about him proper now.

If Saints followers occurred to be directing their boos at Lutz, he acquired the final snicker by outscoring them on his personal Thursday evening with 15 factors. The 30-year-old was 4-of-4 on discipline objectives and 3-of-3 on additional factors in opposition to his former group.

The Saints will look to finish their shedding streak in Week 8 in opposition to the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium. The Broncos are using excessive with 4 wins of their final 5 video games to recover from the .500 mark (4-3) going into subsequent week’s residence recreation in opposition to the Panthers.