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.