ESPN.com · Nov 23, 2015
Saints desperate for their usual bye-week bump
NEW ORLEANS -- The bye week was the best thing that could have happened to the 4-6 New Orleans Saints.
A chance to get healthy and recharge their batteries after an ugly two-game losing streak? Sure, all of those things.
But the Saints also have an uncanny knack for winning after bye weeks.
The Saints won five straight games following their bye from 2009-2013. Then last year, when they were struggling just as badly as they are this season, they came back from the bye and played one of their best games of the entire season at Detroit -- only to blow a 13-point lead in the final 3:38.
