Win out at home and most likely win South
 

Winning 5 at home gives us 9-7 at the worst.

As long as Atlanta or Carolina don't win all of their other games (excluding the Saints) - and they still play each other twice - we are in.

ATL and TB certainly aren't out of it, but their schedules says that neither of them are sniffing .500 this year, so its really Carolina and us.

Carolina is not playing well, but their schedule is soft. They travel to Philly and NO - other than that they have a chance. The key is to get them to 7 losses I think.


We can beat them out as long as we win all our home games and Philly (or any other team besides the Saints) beats Carolina to get Carolina a 7th loss


Up next - the Evil Empire. We must crush them!!!!:bng:

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Panthers still have to play the Falcons twice; that's going to be two tough games for two very bad teams...

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Panthers have the easiest remaining schedule according to the stats they showed last night.

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Panthers and Falcons at home.

Jazz Music to my ears.

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Weird, we won 2 games in a row, get to .500, finished a game we would not have finished earlier in the season, take division lead, and I'm still hearing Saints fans whine.

Also, where are the nay-sayers? We heard all season how this was the end and team needed to be scuttled. Really dissapointed with our fans and regulars here at black and gold.

Thank YOU to the very few here that are actually posting and participating, especially those on this thread.

Otherwise, the enthusiasm has been poop.

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South schedule:

ATL - BYE, @TB, @CAR, CLE, ARZ, @GB, PIT, @NO, CAR

CAR - @PHI, ATL, BYE, @MIN, @NO, TB, CLE, @ATL

TB - @CLE, ATL, @WAS, @CHI, CIN, @DET, @CAR, GB, NO

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Amen brother!

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I think that our away games are the key. Not sure we can stay undefeated at home but Chicago and PIT games are not that scary at this point. Chicago is falling apart on defense and Cutler lost that locker room. Pit secondary is very bad and their run defense is nothing special. We can win in high scoring game.

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Just have to win one more than Carolina. But the win against Carolina in Carolina last night was HUGE, from both a division perspective and also in terms of the ongoing "Saints suck on the road" meme perspective. This is the first time they have looked right on the road since Philly, and that game itself was the first time they looked right on the road since maybe early in 2013.

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honestly, we could win just 3 more and still win the division, as long one of the 3 is Carolina.
Atl, TB, & Carol are just that bad.

It would be nice to get 10-11 wins and at least have a shot a home game in the NFCG. No telling what will happen in the playoffs, and geez, right now Arizona is the #1 seed

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If we were to have to travel, I'd rather go to Dallas, Arizona or Detroit than Seattle, SF, GB or Philly

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So glad we are getting our **** together before the 49ers. I dislike them so~ very, very, very very much.

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Admittedly my enthusiasm went in the tank when we were 2-4 and I wasn't posting anything, heck hardly even reading anything about our Saints. I was pretty disgusted with their performance up to that point. It seems we may have turned the corner now but make no mistake, I didn't jump off the band wagon, was just riding it in silence.

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I was exactly the same, stopped watching saints videos and wouldn't read articles about how we could turn it around because I was disgusted with our early performance

Will gladly admit I was wrong about this team if we can continue strong, I understand we may lose a couple more games, but as long as our team continues to show improvement and we make the playoffs, I'll be a happy who dat

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I've been lurking around here for the whole season while still watching all the games and reading most of the articles about the Saints, but I haven't really posted much since I haven't really had anything constructive to say about the way the team has played. Also, the negativity that has been apparent in many posts here hasn't really made me feel like piling on with my woes.

Even though the Saints have improved their performances of late, there still remain a lot of questions - especially about the defense - that I don't yet feel all that comfortable about.

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I don't think looking ahead is worth anything... one game at a time and enjoy the season.

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tall order but it can be done. for the first time in a long time the saints kept gap assignments and it showed. back up OL or not i was pleased to see it and it will be huge for the niners game. Kaperdink's Achilles heel is pocket passing.

SP will continue to get the offense clicking and all looks good for the future. it is Drew and SP that will be the ones to get us that NFC South crown.

a crown is a crown no matter how ugly the division may look. get to the show and that is our only road to it