By John Sigler | Saints Wire
One of the more underrated (and telling) stats of the Sean Payton era is how successful the New Orleans Saints are in October. Historically slow starters, they usually slump through the opening weeks in September before course-correcting and going on a run in the next month. New Orleans is 40-13 in October games, going back to Payton’s first year on the job in 2006.
They’ve won 14 consecutive games in the month of October after dispatching the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night. You have to go back to 2016 to find their last October loss — that was a close 27-21 defeat against the Kansas City Chiefs, and even then the Saints went 3-1 over the course of the month.
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