Brief takes from New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton’s Monday afternoon teleconference:
1. Running back Mark Ingram is 60 yards shy of becoming the Saints’ first 1,000-yard rusher since Deuce McAllister ran for 1,057 yards in 2006. Ingram, the Saints’ leading rusher in four of the last five seasons, is 25 yards short of topping his single-season career best of 964 rushing yards in 2014, and already has a career-high 1,230 yards from scrimmage. “He’s run very physically,” Payton said. “I can think of games – San Francisco, specifically, was a good bounce-back game for him.