re: For a variety of other reasons, it’s a shame the Saints didn’t get a bye

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Every top seed in the NFL this year in both conferences has a bad loss on their resume

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Exactly. All fans are looking at their teams and thinking how could they lose these games.

GB lost at home to Philly, and @ LAC
49ers lost to the same Falcons team

Saints lost to a team that was also coming off of a bye, and used that bye week to completely rewrite their script. They were 1-7 at the time, and finished 6-2 w/ some quality wins. They also shuffled their coaching staff. All of this meant the film the Saints had actually worked against them.