Is there any team in the NFL that seems to loathe prosperity more than the New Orleans Saints? In clearly the biggest game of the season to date – and against its most fiercest rival in the Atlanta Falcons – the Black and Gold did everything but hand the Dirty Birds an early Christmas present.

Oh, and then their head coach and starting quarterback came out in the postgame press conference and decided to spew their perceived positives from the 24-15 loss. And when Dennis Allen and Derek Carr weren’t talking about the good things, they were talking about penalties, injuries and just about anything except what they should have been talking about: why they stunk up the joint.

On the first post-bye edition of the Dattitude Podcast (Ep. 191), host Jim Derry is ready Monday to tell it the way they should have told you on Sunday. And he’ll do it with far fewer excuses.