All but buried after an abysmal performance in Philadelphia left them 1-4, the New Orleans Saints have looked very much alive the past two weeks.
If they keep trending in the right direction as the schedule lightens, their playoff hopes could be resurrected, too, although they were not willing to go there Monday.
“The best thing for us since we got put in the hole is to kind of put our head down and take it step by step and game by game,” safety Kenny Vaccaro said. “At 3-4, we don’t even need to be thinking about playoffs.