What was the Saints signature win in 2017/18?

I guess it depends on each individual person's definition of "statement game".

My personal definition is essentially a game where the doubt has officially been eliminated that a team is for real and a legitimate threat to contend for a championship.

I personally don't think it took until week 16 on Christmas Eve for that to happen with the Saints............though that game certainly brightened most of our holidays, for sure.

I guess the "downside" of a good season is that usually it involves multiple scenarios to choose from, when it comes to this sort of thing. Just like in 2009.........there were the Washington and Miami comebacks......not to mention throttling the Giants in a game where both teams were undefeated...........but at the end of the day, most people are gonna say the New England MNF game was the statement game of that season.

The title of the thread was signature win. The Falcons game felt like the signature game of 2017. It summed up entirely how our team was with running the ball so heavily and it was at the time when the defense was doing everything right.

IMO our statement game had to be playing Detroit. That was the game when the defense proved they were done with being the old awful Saints defenses and the three defensive TD's really saved us in that game.

Our offense last year was not well equipped to get into back-and-forth shootout games like we did in previous seasons. This was made obvious in the Patriots game, as well as when we played Atlanta on TNF and then the Bucs at the end of the year. Third down crippled our offense in those, as well as lack of short yardage passing. The Lions game and then the Falcons on Christmas Eve were games where our defense picked up where the offense was struggling and did everything right to give them second chances when they needed it.

If our defense improves again this year and if we can fix our third down issues, we will be a SB contender for sure this season.