New Orleans

[HarveyWallbangers]

This game will be interesting b/c it is the type of game that Capers would usually sit back and let the veteran QB pick us apart. If he comes out with pressure and tight coverage we should be alright, but that is a big IF - Dom is still Dom.

We should win this game. NO is struggling, and we're playing okay... but they certainly have the weapons to put a beating on us. It's a 'pick em' game.

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.

[3irty1]

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.

[Bretsky]

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.

Agree; NO is near unbeatable at home. It will take a great effort by Dom and the defense to help keep us in this one. They were both tremendous last week though; who knows what will happen

[pbmax]

Agree; NO is near unbeatable at home. It will take a great effort by Dom and the defense to help keep us in this one. They were both tremendous last week though; who knows what will happen

We'll see. 3irty1 has a point about this year. So far at home the Saints beat the Vikings (no Peterson and Casswater at QB) 20-7. Then they nearly lost to the Buccaneers 37-31.

[Joemailman]

We'll see. 3irty1 has a point about this year. So far at home the Saints beat the Vikings (no Peterson and Casswater at QB) 20-7. Then they nearly lost to the Buccaneers 37-31.

Certainly can't rule out the possibility though, that the Saints came out flat at home against teams they expected to beat. Those two games were sandwiched around a game vs. Dallas. They won't be flat against the Packers. They need this game worse than the Packers do. Whatever New Orleans is capable of, I'll bet the Packers will see their best effort.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Certainly can't rule out the possibility though, that the Saints came out flat at home against teams they expected to beat. Those two games were sandwiched around a game vs. Dallas. They won't be flat against the Packers. They need this game worse than the Packers do. Whatever New Orleans is capable of, I'll bet the Packers will see their best effort.

I agree. Big, big game for them...and us. If we want to think of ourselves as Superbowl material, this is where we've got to show up big time. I sure wish we had a playmaking TE...