The New Orleans Saints (7-2) are on a roll that the franchise hasn’t experienced since the end of 2011, when the team won its final eight regular-season games and its wild card playoff game. And the current seven-game winning streak for New Orleans, as it enters Sunday’s game against Washington (4-5) in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, is one that has players being advised to remain even-keeled while they attempt to do something that few teams in franchise history have done.
“Every day, we talk about the realities of today, each week and the understanding of we’re just past the midway point of the season and yet, the experts will be talking playoffs, Super Bowl,” Coach Sean Payton said Wednesday morning in a teleconference with local media.