On to Kansas City

as has been pointed out, KC had a solid running game and "Smith is no gun slinger"....
....the Saints D has been able to do something this year, that it hasn't done in a long time, tackle! there are not as many lost/broken/slipped tackles this year as we have had since the greg williams era ended. As a result, i think we will be able to slow down KC's run....i would expect us to give up one or two big runs (it's just kinda par for the course based on our youth)....I can see KC putting up 24 points (14 based on a solid rushing, 7 on smith's passing, and 3 points just because)

as for KC, their DBs are a weakness....and i think we can exploit that. KC also seems to start of really sluggish and flat at home, and over the past years have seemed to have to crawl back to win home games....I can see us getting a decent lead again early on, 14 points, then we put up small drives and get into field goal range....I think this game will be similar to the NY game, however, we come out on top this time, no special teams mistakes (we play our special teams conservatively, "Byrd just catch the punt and hand the ball to Brees") we win 27 -24....

my only concern is the tempo that KC keeps with the run game....slowing the game down, eating up clock, and keeping the ball away from brees....there is nothing worse a as a saints fan then watching brees sit on the side line as minute upon minute tick off the clock....