[The Goat]

Does the team find its soul this week? That's my bottom line.

One of best buds made a comment the other day about it. He's from NO and a huge saints fan. We watch almost every saints and skins game together, and apart from the fact the saints are much better prepared, better disciplined and much better coached on both sides of the ball, maybe the biggest difference is one team plays with a single purpose and the other is all over the place.

Anyway he went on to say maybe shanny gate has lost the team. I didn't really think about it but then he said if Sean Peyton had left a severely injured Brees on the field and Brees suffered that kind of injury it would eff up the whole team unless Peyton and Brees showed unity going forward. I think that opportunity is probably already past here, but somehow this team has to come together. It's playing well below its talent level.

Still no way to predict a win or loss this weekend.