THE SAINTS ARE FOR REAL

I like to be right – who doesn’t? I like But I’m also a gracious loser. In our preseason football guide, I was pessimistic about the New Orleans Saints. I said the team wouldn’t make the playoffs, piggy backing off accurate predictions I’d made about the team in the past three seasons before.

But I was wrong.

Early in the season, the Saints were a mess – much so that fans were jumping off the bandwagon in droves.

But since that time, the Black and Gold have rebounded in a big way and it pains me to say this (I’m not a Saints fan … at all), but New Orleans is a true championship contender in a NFL that lacks a dominant great team.

The key for New Orleans right now, to me, is two-fold.

The first is offensive balance.

Look, Drew Brees is the best player in the

THE SAINTS ARE FOR REAL