New Orleans Saints understand importance of game against Atlanta Falcons
 

The New Orleans Saints are cognizant of the situation they have played themselves into. As the 2012 season prepares for its stretch run, the Saints are lumped in with a cluster of teams vying for two of the NFC's wild-card playoff berths.

To stay in that position or improve their standing, the Saints likely will need to win on Thursday night against the 10-1 Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome.

Even faced with such a daunting task of beating the Falcons, who own the NFL's best record, the Saints (5-6) don't appear to be putting too much pressure on themselves. With five games remaining, they are not ready to label the nationally televised game as a "must-win" situation.

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Re: New Orleans Saints understand importance of game against Atlanta Falcons
 

It's not a must win until one of these middle ground NFC teams start pulling away. Every team we are fighting with have a high chance of losing this week also, except maybe Dallas.

Re: New Orleans Saints understand importance of game against Atlanta Falcons
 

We are just outside of "The hunt". They are all must wins at this point.
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