Vintage Saints Back in Business in NFC South After Handing Falcons 1st Loss

October 16, 2015   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

Let's look at the glass as half full.
Let us not bemoan the unmasking of the previously unbeaten Atlanta Falcons as a paper tiger, a team whose 5-0 start to the season was as much a product of a soft schedule as a barometer of the Falcons themselves.
No, instead let us celebrate the New Orleans Saints, who did the exposing with a 31-21 win at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Saints were a team in full-on panic mode after last week's embarrassing loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Lose again and fall to 1-5, and the end of the Sean Payton/Drew Brees era in the Big Easy appeared a foregone conclusion.
Well, instead the Saints did the embarrassing, and the reports of the Saints' demise may have been just a tad premature.
Things had gotten just about as bad as they could get for the Saints. A disappointing 2014 led to big offseason changes that were supposed to right the ship. Instead, the Saints pitched and lurched out of the gate, quarterback Drew Brees was knocked arou...

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