With 2020 being a very peculiarly odd year for most people across the planet, this sentiment didn’t stop in regards to the SFL season as well. 

The SFL saw its first ever “fantasy team draft”, completely resetting the league and giving the owners in the league a choice for who they want to use this cycle. 
 

Coach Chan didn’t have much postseason success last cycle, so he selected the New Orleans Saints at number 12, missing out on the teams he actually wanted to coach. 

Nonetheless, the Saints had the best overall team grade in the league, so one would assume a lot of success with the new coach/team relationship. But to add to how odd 2020 has been, Coach Chan had the worst season in his career with the best overall team he’s ever had.

With that overall being said, if you take a deeper dive into the Saints roster, they have glaring issues. No issue more glaring than the teams overall speed and explosion. On both sides of the ball, the Saints are tremendously slow and to top it off they were lead by a QB with the weakest arm in the league, abide his accuracy. The next glaring issue, which ultimately doomed the team, was the ability to stop the run on defense. With the way the league is now, that is a tremendously bad problem to have when teams can legitimately win games while having under 100 passing yards for the game. 
 

The Saints dug themselves a tough 1-5 hole to start the season with fumbling, dropped interceptions, stopping the run and scheduling issues leading the way to a shocking terrible start. You could finally see Coach Chan and the Saints finally settle in after rattling off 7 straight wins to ultimately ending the season at 9-7 and a chance to actually make the playoffs on the last game of the season. With that being said, the Saints actually saw themselves in prime position to make the playoffs in week 17. With the ball in field goal range, up by two scores and under five minutes left, the Panthers got a strip on the 3rd string HB and momentum took over from that point on giving Chan & Co. the worst collapse of his career and ultimately a playoff berth. 

Though it was a rough season, in regards to Chan’s expectations for his teams, their was still positives to take away from the season. The Saints have one of the best offenses in the league and possibly a top balanced offense all together. Even with Drew Brees having 83 THP, the Saints saw an almost 12 yards per pass attempt. But no one stood out more than the only player in the league to have over 1,000+ yards receiving and 1,500+ rushing, Alvin Kamara in 14 games. 

Offensive Standouts:

RB Alvin Kamara- 311 Attempts/ 1,548 yards rushing/ 21 rushing TD’s/ 101 catches/ 1,134 yards receiving/ 6 receiving TD’s

WR Micheal Thomas- 90 catches/ 2,360 yards receiving/ 17 td’s

QB Drew Bress- 5,210 yards passing/ 37 passing td’s/ 121.9 rating/ 11.7 attempt

Defensive Standout:

FS T.J Green- 11 INT’s in only 8 games