The 2021 schedule is out for the New Orleans Saints, and the hot takes are starting to drop. Here are my first four thoughts I had when looking at the 2021 schedule for the Saints:
That early bye is rough
A Week 6 bye under normal circumstances would be less than ideal, but in a 17-game season? Far from perfect.
The season is longer, and players will get beat up, banged up, and bruised more and more as the season progresses, so it will be asking a lot of this Saints team to play 11 straight weeks of football (or more, if they make the playoffs).