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The Saints‘ 2021 schedule is out and surprisingly, they’ll partake in five primetime games this year (assuming they don’t get flexed out). I say surprisingly because with Drew Brees’ retirement, it’d have been easy for the league to write New Orleans off and figure they won’t be competitive but they didn’t do that.
The league knows that Sean Payton is a good coach and the Saints played well even without Brees the past two years. They went 5-0 without him in 2019 and only lost one game without him under center this past year.