Gus Kattengell’s Saints Report – Titans Game
The Saints look to win their 5th in a row on Sunday as they travel to Tennessee to take on the 7-5 Titans.
The Saints look to win their 5th in a row on Sunday as they travel to Tennessee to take on the 7-5 Titans.
The 8-3 New Orleans Saints host the 7-4 Detroit Lions in a second straight nationally televised game Sunday night. The game yet another important one in a string of key games for the Saints in terms of the NFC Playoff picture. The Saints currently hold the 3rd seed, a game out of the 2nd seed held by 9-2 San Francisco. Detroit currently is on the outside looking in and reeling, as the 7th seed losing out in a tie-breaker with Atlanta who beat the Lions earlier in the season.
Well it's time for THE Rivalry to renew as the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons do battle Sunday. All week Saints players and coaches expressed not only what the game means in terms of their goal of winning the NFC South, but what it means to Saints fans.
Saints head coach Sean Payton, since arriving in New Orleans, has done his best to help compartmentalize the long and grueling NFL season. One mental tool is to break the season down in two 4 quarters of games.
Well it's another scrimmage game for the New Orleans Saints this weekend as they face their second straight winless team in the St. Louis Rams at noon on Sunday.
The 3-1 New Orleans Saints take on the 1-3 Carolina Panthers in Charlotte on Sunday, but do not let Carolina's record fool you. This week at Saints camp the team was very aware of the fact Carolina has the players to hand the Saints a loss.
The 2-1 New Orleans Saints travel to 1-2 Jacksonville for the first of three straight road games.
After playing three top level teams, the fan in us wants to look at the Jags as a win, and why not? Jacksonville QB Blaine Gabbert is making just his second NFL start, the team needed an extension this week to try and sell out the game so the blackout would be lifted, and surely if the Saints can play the Packers tough, spank the Bears and snatch a win from Houston, Jacksonville should be no trouble?
The New Orleans Saints improved to 2-1 on Sunday, winning a shootout with the Houston Texans. The 40-33 win, as thrilling as it was seemed secondary, before, and after the game, however, thanks to former Saint Steve Gleason. Gleason, a retired former New Orleans Saints special teams captain who revealed that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rare terminal disease that damages the nerves that control voluntary muscle movement, served as the Saints' honorary captain Sunday against the Houston Texans at the Superdome.
The New Orleans Saints picked up their first win of the season in impressive fashion Sunday in the Superdome. Head coach Sean Payton was pretty pleased with his team's performance:
Every week during the NFL season, Gus Kattengell joins Bruce & the Kennel Club to give you the latest with our New Orleans Saints. Listen for his reports every Monday and Friday at 7:20am. (Although this week with the Thursday game, he'll be joining us on Thursday morning.)