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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; The City of Brotherly Love hasn’t been very brotherly to the New Orleans Saints the past two seasons. Well, unless you want to say the Eagles have treated the Saints like little brothers the last two times they welcomed them ...
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01-01-2023, 02:42 AM | #1 |
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The City of Brotherly Love hasn’t been very brotherly to the New Orleans Saints the past two seasons.
Well, unless you want to say the Eagles have treated the Saints like little brothers the last two times they welcomed them to Lincoln Financial Field. It’s been two trips to Philly and two losses over the past 24 months, a streak the Saints desperately need to snap Sunday. There was a 24-21 loss in December 2020 in Jalen Hurts’ first NFL start. Then a 40-29 setback in November 2021. This version of the Eagles team is much better than those two though, with the Eagles (13-2) entering the game with the best record in the NFL. Any chance of the Saints keeping their slim playoff hopes alive starts with them pulling off what would be a giant upset against a team that has given them fits recently. “I don’t think the past two times have any bearing on what happens in this game,” Saints coach Dennis Allen said. “We have to go there with our game plan and a focus on doing whatever it takes to try to win this game. We obviously paid attention to the tape (from the last two games), but we are really focused on what’s right there in front of us and not what’s happened in the past.” So what is it that’s in front of the Saints? Well, first, there is still the chance to win the NFC South, a division so woeful that the Saints still have a shot to win it despite sporting a 6-9 record as the calendar flips to 2023. The Saints, of course, need some help, starting with the Carolina Panthers beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, an outcome that wouldn’t come as a surprise considering how the two teams have been playing down the stretch. The Saints also have an outside shot at a wild card, but that’s going to take a lot of complicated scenarios to take place. The most complicated part of it all is the challenge staring the Saints right in the face. The Eagles are nothing like the Atlanta Falcons or Cleveland Browns, the two team the Saints beat the last two weeks for their first back-to-back wins of the season. The Eagles are talented on both sides of the ball, regardless of whether Hurts plays or not. He sat out last week’s game against the Dallas Cowboys, but the Eagles — with Gardner Minshew playing quarterback — still managed to put up 442 yards in the loss. And the Eagles will be highly motivated, needing a win to lock up the No. 1 overall seed in the NFC and the NFC East title. If that’s not motivation enough, there’s also this: The Eagles own the Saints’ first-round draft pick from the trade in the 2022 draft. So Philadelphia would like nothing more than to hand the Saints another loss to make that draft pick even better. To the Saints’ credit, they haven’t quit on their first-year coach in a season where they very well could have, especially after the late fourth-quarter collapse against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers. Instead, the Saints went into the bye and won two straight games to give themselves a chance. “We’re trying to play playoff football,” safety Tyrann Mathieu said. "I think we’ve really been in that mode the last couple weeks. Obviously it’s not looking great for us, but we still have a chance, so we’re trying to approach these last two games as if they’re playoff games.” A win Sunday would easily be the Saints’ biggest win of the season and also the biggest of Allen’s coaching career.
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Trying to win my first fantasy championship in a long, long time. I need AJ Brown to be limited and Devonta Smith to put up the big stats today. I am also starting Juwan Johnson and hoping he has a big game. Stat-wise he sure has been feast or famine for us.
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CIGS, Aspirin, Adult Beverages, Snacks and Good Juju on deck for Kick-Off as always. Then we'll see what happens...
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