David “Doc” Mancina has had a lot of rotten Mondays in his 69 years.

A Metairie native and a Saints fan all his life, Mancina said he's always taken losses hard. He's suffered through plenty of them through the decades, both from inside the Superdome and in front of his TV. But this year, though Kellen Moore's Saints are a dismal 1-7, it's not hitting the same way.

“Used to be that it would wreck my Mondays. And sometimes my Tuesdays,” Mancina said, laughing. “But it doesn’t anymore.”

What gives?

“Maybe I’m getting old," he said. Or maybe I’m just beat up.”

As Saints fans trudge through a season that at times has felt like a jail sentence, Mancina isn't alone in feeling a little numb to it all.

Interviews with the team's faithful over the past week offered a sense of resignation, eve

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