The points have not piled up at such a dizzying rate in recent weeks for the New Orleans Saints. Talk of the year of the unstoppable offenses in the NFL — those of the Saints, Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs — has quieted a bit.
But that didn’t matter all too much to the Saints late Monday night. Once they were done fighting their way to a grind-it-out victory at Carolina by the un-Saints-like score of 12-9, they were headed back to New Orleans. If all goes the way they’re planning, they won’t have to leave there again until a potential trip to Atlanta for the Super Bowl.