The Saints have a potential trip to the postseason sitting out in front of them, but they'll have to reach out and take it.
And how can they do that? Well, aside from winning their remaining four games, it'd help if they could get the home crowd back on their side by giving the New Orleans faithful something to cheer for, as Bobby Hebert explained on WWL this week.
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"I’m still going to try and say, can we have that Domefield advantage? You look at the sample size and where you’re at. We’re now 8-12, I should say, dating back to where we are in home games at the Caesars Superdome," Hebert said. "I think we should be 12-8 or at least 13-7, when you consider where we’re at. … More than half of those losses have come by double digits including earlier this year to Tampa Bay. ... So that’ll be interesting, if we can take care of business, and we should, because you’ve got to take care of the Domefield and get the fans into the game, get off to a fast start."
The advantage has been noticeably absent over the past month, with the atmosphere at times turning outright negative with road fans taking over the building and boos directed at the home team.
That can change quickly, though, and taking care of business against the Giants in Week 15 would be a good start. A win would kick off a streak at the right time, with a difficult road trip and a short week looming with the Rams. The Saints have their final two games against the Bucs and Falcons, with all three times locked in a tie at 6-7 atop the NFC South.
"Let me tell you, Who Dat Nation, why you should be encouraged … it just shows you that the way the NFL is," Hebert said, "that there’s a lot of teams that are bad, but don’t you want to be the best of the bad? Anything can happen in one game."
