New Orleans Saints Strip Washington Redskins of Victory, Escape D.C. Perfect

What's it going to take?  How many times are the Saints going to prove you wrong?

On the growing list of ways the Saints are finding to win, you can file Sunday’s win in Washington under the "grand theft" section. 

In a season where everything has gone right for the Saints it's only fitting that they catch a break of this magnitude, even if the unbeaten team didn't necessarily need it.

In no other season, on any other Sunday, on any other field would the Saints have escaped the victor in a game like this. 

I'm beating a dead horse here, but for the ump-teenth time (and not the last, I'm sure), these are a new brand of Saints.

There is something to be said, however, about the team at whose expense the Saints' come-from-behind victory was celebrated.

Having devolved into what the Saints were formally, the Washington Redskins did absolutely everything right on Sunday – until the final five minutes of the game. 

But the Redskins have been doing that most of the season and no strangers to heartbreak.  

An all too familiar feeling for the Who Dat faithful.  Sympathize, Who Dats, sympathize.  

But do NOT feel sorry.

“Ironic", or "weird", or "coincidental" may not be the appropriate words to use here, but remember just last year this exact game was played out with almost the exact same drama and excitement in a 29-24 affair.

The only thing different was who was standing in the winner's circle.  Think the Redskins or their fans felt sorry for us after that one?

If Drew Brees was telling the truth on the eve of the Patriots spanking when he said that the Saints were trying to emulate Belichick's squad as the best team in football, then it's time the Saints and their fans started acting like it.

So gloat, and say the Redskins got what was coming to them and that at no point in the game did they ever have a chance of winning. 

Any real die-hard would.

And tell every fan of every team the Saints have left in their undefeated wake that they should have lost by more, and that the only thing we're sorry for is that we couldn't bury their pathetic team under more points and yards. 

Even the Rams and Bucs.

I'm not losing the faith here, but I've been waiting the better part of 15 years to get my chance to feel this good about the Saints.  Who knows how long it will last?

And there's no way I'm going to spend these precious moments patting my opponent on the back and wishing them well after they thought they could compete with the new sheriff in town.

Get mean, get confident, get cocky.  We deserve to.

It’s time for all the people out there who have never known despair to finally feel what Saints fans have been feeling for 40 years.  Let’s face it, when the Saints show up to play, they won’t have a choice.

It’s time to talk junk and take shots, Who Dat faithful.  The boys in black and gold will back you up.