Bromance: Pelicans show the Saints love in their mission to Minnesota

There is a distinction but you have to know New Orleans to understand it. That said, they’re better than the Chiefs.

“We didn’t know what we had in store when we came out of this deal at the beginning of the year”, wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. said. And once they get your pattern established in the try to break the outer and so we could be a make talks. He was knocked out of the game for a little bit in the fourth-quarter and Newton went under concussion protocol and he was obviously put back in the game. However, it was like old times vs. the Panthers as New Orleans was held to 41 yards rushing, but Brees threw for 376 yards and two touchdowns.

These aren’t the same Saints on offense or defense that lost 29-19 to the Vikings back in the September 11 regular-season opener on “Monday Night Football”. The Vikings turned the ball over five times in that game, ultimately losing in overtime to Drew Brees and the underdog Saints.

And that means this playoff game is a rematch more in name than reality.

“You start factoring those things in, and then you take a good scheme with great players, and you end up with the No. 1 defense in the league”.

Anyone who doesn’t root for a specific team will find that team’s fan base “obnoxious”.

This has the potential to be the game of the weekend as you have one of the best offenses in the league going against the top defensive unit in the NFL.

Ultimately, Zimmer is right. We are a long way from when Sam Bradford, Dalvin Cook and Adrian Peterson were playing in this matchup, so things are not the same on either side of the field. Bradford’s only full game played this season came in Week 1 at home against the Saints. Now they’re on to the divisional round of the NFC playoffs after holding off Carolina (11-6), 31-26 on Sunday.

The two teams first met back in 1968 when the Saints defeated the Vikings 20-17.

“It’s night and day”, Saints quarterback Drew Brees said. The offense is ranked 2 in yards (391.2 per game) and 4 in points scored (28.0 per game). Mark Ingram added 9 carries for 22 yards, while Zach Line chipped in a rushing score of his own in the win. In the eight other years that the Saints made the postseason they failed to get any further than the NFC Divisional Round.

With that in mind, we take a look at three takeaways from the Saints Wild Card Round win over the Panthers and what they will need to do to perform even better against the Minnesota Vikings next Sunday.

Brees is a week shy of his 39th birthday. It’s been almost a decade, and if I’m honest, Minnesota was the better team that day, but Adrian Peterson fumbled 986 times, Vikings coach Brad Childress botched the end of the game, and two Tracy Porter magic moments later the Saints had a Lombardi Trophy.

“I’ve known Mike Zimmer for years”, Payton said of the Vikes sideline boss. The list gets fewer and fewer of the guys that are still on the team that played with that group.

The other part of me says the Saints could be hosting the conference championship in an all-NFC South matchup at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

All this week we’ll be sharing coverage of the New Orleans Saints from The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La.

The Saints have been terrific on offense and surprisingly good on defense.

Keenum. In a brief survey of Vikings fans I polled, all pointed to Keenum being the biggest wildcard for Sunday’s game.

Our friends at SunBets have the Minnesota Vikings as 2/5 favourites to advance to the NFC Championship Game.

Williams, a third-year pro who missed nearly all of his first two seasons with separate injuries, has two interceptions this season and saw increased playing time after Vaccaro’s injuries.