OK, show of hands everyone who thought the Saints, playing without the best player in the franchise’s history, could go into one of the loudest stadiums in the NFL and come away with a not-as-close-as-the-final-score-indicated victory.
Nope, me neither.
But there the Saints were Sunday, showing the type of grit and resiliency they’ll need to survive these next few weeks with Drew Brees on the shelf recovering from the torn thumb ligament suffered seven days ago.
Brees wasn’t at CenturyLink Field to watch the Saints’ 33-27 victory, but he surely would have given an injured thumbs-up for what he saw from his teammates.