The season has felt over for a while now, but if the Saints were able to pull out a victory on Monday night they would sit just a half game back with a much more favorable schedule compared to the Buccaneers as well as the tiebreaker. Now they effectively sit three games back with four to play. There’s no way that a 4-8 team should have entered a Week 13 game with a decent chance to win the division, but that has just been the NFC South this season. Now that the Saints sit at 4-9, two more losses or two more Buccaneer wins will eliminate them from the playoffs, and it’s hard to feel optimistic at all at this point.
2 takeaways from the Saints loss to the Bucs
