Quote Originally Posted by HarveyWallbangers View Post
Hard to say we should win. The Saints are a different team at home. They are 10-0 at home the last two years and 3-10 on the road. They are 2-4 partly due to only playing 2 home games this year and losing some close road games. There is a reason they are favored. Next to Philly (and the match-up problems they present), this will be our toughest game.
The whole 19-0, 17-1-1 against the spread numbers under Payton at home more or less show what we already know: that the Saints have been really good. That 1 loss against the spread? That was this years home game against a terrible TB team that went into overtime. Their away record is like 9-14 or something but thats with 4 away losses this year to screw up that ratio too. By any measure they just don't have it going on this year compared to years past.

All belief that we should lose this game seem to be based primarily on this notion of a voodoo curse. NO looks out of voodoo to me. The ghost of NO is good enough to be dangerous but not enough to make this more than a Packers vs Packers game. I agree with Wist, an average day wins this game and looks good doing it.