On Monday night, several newsworthy things happened for the New Orleans Saints as they trounced the Washington Redskins in Week 5 to move to 4-1 for the 2018 Season. Drew Brees set the new all-time passing yards record, Mark Ingram returned to the line-up and rookie receiver Tre’Quan Smith finally got to make his first NFL start and lit it up.
But, as we spoke about before this one, this game was very important as a tone-setter for what comes next. Week 6 is the bye week for the Saints and that’s followed by two road games in Baltimore and Minneapolis to begin a nasty stretch of schedule ending with the early Super Bowl favorite Los Angeles Rams coming to the Superdome for Week 9.