Amen 🙏
It would be funny if the Saints started winning NFL games again after these tweets…
For a franchise with a lot of dark moments, the New Orleans Saints are really going through one of their toughest periods right now. The Saints’ record has fallen to 2-7 despite winning their first two games, former receiver Michael Thomas was blasting current quarterback Derek Carr during Sunday’s embarrassing loss to the Panthers, and they fired head coach Dennis Allen on Monday.
Never mind the cap hell they are going to have to deal with in 2025 when the aging New Orleans Saints roster will be more than $60 million over the cap. They sure could use a prayer right now.
Fortunately, the good NFL news is they may have the Vatican on their side. Pope Francis was recently sending tweets on his account that used the hashtag #Saints and the X/Twitter app is displaying it with the team’s logo as he talked about actual saints rather than the Saints football team:
The #Saints are formed by the Beatitudes: poor, meek, merciful, hungering and thirsting for justice, seeking peace. They are “filled with God” and incapable of remaining indifferent to the needs of their neighbour. They bear witness to paths of light that we too can trod.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) November 1, 2024
As you might expect, NFL fans had a lot of fun with the tweets, pretending that he did in fact mean the football team. Here’s a good reply to that tweet with a wish that came true as Allen was fired Monday following a seventh-straight loss:
You fired Benedict, why you can’t #firedennisallen too?
— Concept of A Plan (@JohnEHagan) November 1, 2024
The Pope continued tweeting about the #Saints on Tuesday, the day after Allen was fired, leading to some more bangers:
Even the Pope is excited we fired Dennis Allen
— Jono Barnes (@JonoBarnes) November 5, 2024
The Pope had his funniest #Saints tweet yet on Thursday morning when you read it in the context of the football team instead of his intended meaning for hope:
We cannot become #Saints with a frown. We must have joyful hearts that remain open to hope.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) November 7, 2024
The quote tweets laughed it up:
we’re all melting down and the Pope is out here NFL posting https://t.co/YSNPMd742o
— schleiermocker (@schleiermocker) November 7, 2024
His Holiness wants to go double-or-nothing with the Saints on the money line this week. Do I take his action, T? https://t.co/byspDjf7c3 pic.twitter.com/yjMrmkWCCl
— Christopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events (@MoltisantiThots) November 7, 2024
Can you bless the Chicago Bears while you’re at it as well, Your Holiness? I fear the devil has led them astray https://t.co/srE002KoY7
— Frost of Rivia (@TheOtherFrost) November 8, 2024
Even the official team account (@Saints) got in on the action:
Amen #Saints https://t.co/zDsyaPe9tL
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) November 7, 2024
Not Enough Prayers in the World for the Saints
It would be funny if the Saints started winning NFL games again after these tweets from the Pope. But the team is really behind the eight ball now at 2-7. However, you can’t help but feel like they should have a much better record given they have blown three late leads in the fourth quarter against the Eagles, Falcons, and Panthers. Things would be so much different now if they held on in those games.
But the hot start appears to be a mirage, they’ve had too many injuries to key players, and Derek Carr is just not elevating the team like he was signed to do. He came to the Saints to give them an edge in close games in an NFC South that finally got rid of Tom Brady to retirement for good.
However, the Saints are the only NFL team that hasn’t won a game after trailing in the fourth quarter since 2023. This was something Carr was surprisingly good at doing with the Raiders, but they just haven’t pulled it off yet in New Orleans.
Carr also came here to have a defense, and while that worked last year, the Saints have regressed on that side of the ball too. Again, they’d have a comeback win on Sunday in Carolina if the defense didn’t blow the lead at the end to Bryce Young.
It’s hard to see things going well with interim coach Darren Rizzi. Maybe he can add a weekly blessing from the Pope to the team’s schedule.
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