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Now the Saints are back to 4-4 and somehow sitting alone in first place in the NFC South. And even at 4-4, they feel much better about their resilience after having weathered the storm.

Guard Ben Grubbs said a start like that is going to "make you or break you."

Asked what he was feeling after the emotional Thursday night win, Grubbs said, "I felt togetherness."

"When you go through something as tough as losing on walk-off field goals and then losing on the last possession of the game in Detroit, that does something to you," Grubbs said. "It can have a positive effect on you or a negative effect on you. One thing that Coach Payton has done is a great job with was just continuing to encourage us and tell us we're really close, we are a good team, we just have to correct the mistakes that we have."

The message now is to keep that same sense of urgency. Once again, Payton's postgame message was clear, because several players were repeating it throughout the locker room:

"I said this to them: Having been now where we've been and knowing how difficult that is, you refuse to go back," Payton said. "Hopefully you're becoming more resilient and a little bit more tougher, both mentally and physically."


After grueling start, New Orleans Saints believe it's their turn now - ESPN

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