We will barely get to consider the Falcons’ loss to the Vikings this week before we need to start thinking about the game ahead. It’s a short Hate Week for the Falcons and Saints, with New Orleans riding a red-hot ground game into nine wins on the season and the Falcons trying to stay alive in the playoff hunt after losing their fifth on Sunday.
This is not the way I think most of us envisioned this game lining up before the season, when the Saints bizarrely signed Adrian Peterson, blocking Alvin Kamara from a huge role.