Record 3–13 Playoff finish did not qualify Start date 1999 | Division place 5th NFC West Head coach Mike Ditka Home field Mercedes-Benz Superdome | |
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Similar 2000 New Orleans Saints se, 1973 New Orleans Saints se, 2001 New Orleans Saints se, 1972 New Orleans Saints se, 1986 New Orleans Saints se | ||
The 1999 New Orleans Saints season was the Saints' thirty-third NFL season. This was Mike Ditka's third and final season as the Saints' head coach, as he was fired, along with his entire coaching staff and general manager Bill Kuharich, three days after the conclusion of the season.
During 1999, the Saints became the first team to lose to the expansion Cleveland Browns and in the process became the only team since the NFL/AFL merger in 1970 to lose to the last winless team in successive seasons.
NFL Draft
With the only pick in the draft the New Orleans Saints selected RB Ricky Williams out of the University of Texas with the fifth pick in the first round. The Saints traded all of their draft picks in the 1999 draft in order to move up so they could draft Williams, as well as a first round pick in the 2000 NFL Draft that eventually was used by the Washington Redskins to draft LaVar Arrington.