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NFL teams alway say the right things about avoiding letdowns and taking every opponent seriously. Last week, the New Orleans Saints did it.

They challenged themselves to play their best game against the winless Indianapolis Colts, and the result was a 62-7 shellacking, the most-lopsided win in franchise history.

Now, for an encore, the Saints (5-2) will travel to St. Louis to face another winless team, the Rams (0-6). And once again, the Saints insist they need to focus on themselves rather than the opponent.

"We know what type of team we can be and how well we can play. We don't want to be a week-to-week team," Saints quarterback Drew Brees said, echoing Coach Sean Payton, who said, "If you aspire to be a really, really good team, you can't be back and forth."

That sounds great, of course. If teams could play their best football every week, they'd be in great shape.

Brees and Payton admitted, though, that it's a challenge to maintain that level of motivation. It's one of the great battles every team faces in every sport.

"Everybody says it's a marathon. It really is," Brees said. "It's physically taxing, but more so than anything, mentally and emotionally. That's why it takes a pretty mentally strong individual to play the game and to play well on a consistent basis, because it's hard to bring that same level of emotion and focus every day and each time out.

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New Orleans Saints say they'll be focused against the St. Louis Rams - New Orleans Saints Football NFL News - NOLA.com

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