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This comes courtesy of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which, on its website, asked this question of its readers regarding the undefeated Saints:

"Would it be better for the Saints to lose a game in the regular sason, regroup, and then try to run the table, or are you in favor of a run at history -- trying to become the first team ever to go 19-0?

"You tell us -- will the pressure become too much to win them all, or can the team handle it?"

There were some people (fools? idiots?) asking the same question about the Patriots in 2007.

It's never good to lose a game. And who says that losing once, rather than not at all, gives a team a better chance of winning the biggest game of all -- the Super Bowl?

It's never worse than when a team's only loss occurs in the Super Bowl, as was the case with the Patriots two years ago. But the Pats lost that game because they couldn't stop the Giants from driving 83 yards to the winning touchdown in the final minutes, not because "the pressure" got to them.

Sometimes, I just shake my head and wonder what people possibly can be thinking.

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Robert said:

You have to look at it both ways. Any team would love to go 19-0. Being undefeated, you will have a lot of pressure until you win that final game. No one in history has done that. Now lets say you got into the playoffs with one loss on your record, then the team doesn't have to even think about making history. Now the "DUMB QUESTION OF THE DAY" was do you think the Saints have a better chance at winning it all going into the playoffs undefeated or with just the one loss on their record. I would take that one loss during the regular season over going home in the middle of the playoffs.

Link | November 20, 2009 2:07 PM
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Greg Andreozzi said:

The point is it's a dumb question unless you'd be willing to deliberately lose a game during the regular season, and no coach I ever met would want to that.

Link | November 21, 2009 9:05 AM
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