00:00But these are teams that could do something if everything falls the way they want it to.
00:07The Saints have a schedule that's difficult, but not impossible.
00:13Their win total at Circus Sports is set at seven and a half.
00:17Can Tyler Shuck, who was the number one under quarterback last year in the NFL,
00:23can he continue to develop at the position?
00:27He played really well.
00:29He's got some additional guys coming in talent-wise.
00:33And they signed Travis Etienne to a four-year, $52 million deal to bring him home to New Orleans
00:41to tandem with Alvin Kamara.
00:44How does that look like?
00:45What does that look like is a major question for this offense.
00:49Their defense was really good last year.
00:51How much better could it get?
00:53What do the Saints look like?
00:55Because they're in a division that you could think that they could win the division.
01:00It's not crazy to say New Orleans, if they win nine, ten games, could very well win their division.
01:08The Bucs, Saints, Panthers, Falcons all have big question marks.
01:13These are not, you know, this is not a slam dunk here with the Saints, you know, being one of
01:18the worst teams in the division.
01:19At seven and a half, eight, nine, I think this is the first team where realistically you can think about
01:27betting the over.
01:27Okay, the previous five, I wouldn't touch the over.
01:31This one, different story.
01:34I think there's something to be said here for the New Orleans Saints.
01:37And the reason really is the schedule.
01:39Okay, they open up with Detroit and Baltimore.
01:41That is brutal.
01:42Okay, that is a brutal, brutal week one, week two on the road.
01:45It's an 0-2 start.
01:46If they win one of those games, it's a huge tip of the cap and a gigantic start to the
01:51year for the Saints.
01:52But the next five games are all winnable.
01:58Vegas at home should be a win.
02:00Atlanta at home should be a win.
02:02The Vikings at home should be a win.
02:05Their first road game or their third road game, the first winnable road game against the Giants in October,
02:11Saints can win that game 100%.
02:13Then the Steelers at home, if they go 0-2 to start, but five wins in a row,
02:20and they're 5-2 when they hit their bye, that's not impossible.
02:25The more realistic is probably 3-4 when they hit their bye.
02:29But if they're 3-4 and they need four wins or five wins to get to eight,
02:35I think you can find five wins here with this schedule.
02:39Cleveland, Carolina at home, at Chicago and at Cincinnati, Green Bay in December.
02:45It's in New Orleans, not Green Bay.
02:48Carolina-Tampa is a very difficult stretch on the road in the division, but maybe you can split that.
02:55Arizona is a dumpster fire.
02:57That's an automatic W.
02:58At Atlanta, difficult.
03:00You'll probably split with Atlanta.
03:02And then Tampa Bay at home for what could be for the division.
03:06So, I mean, eight wins, if they were to open up 5-2 to start, heck, 4-3 to get
03:14to four more wins,
03:16and you just start splitting the divisional games, you talk about a win over Carolina,
03:19a win over Arizona, a win over potentially kind of a middle-of-the-pack team in Atlanta,
03:27maybe you go 2-0 against Atlanta.
03:30Eight wins is really possible.
03:32Win the division, really possible.
03:33I get why people like New Orleans a lot.
03:36I really do.
03:37I understand why there's so many people who are really excited about New Orleans
03:42and that this could be one of your sleeper teams.
03:45100-1 to win it all?
03:47Eh, I'm not going to go that far with New Orleans,
03:49but I do think there's a reason why New Orleans has a chance to do something special.
03:54Win the division?
03:55Don't hate that bet at all.
03:56Over 7.5 wins?
03:58Don't hate that bet at all either.
04:00Definitely a team that I think we'll keep an eye on as we roll.
04:04I haven't bet that over yet, but I think it's definitely on the radar screen for me.
04:09Go behind it.
04:09Go behind it.
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