In NFL, worst to first starts with September
The Saints were coming off a last-place finish in the NFC South and suffered an unlucky scheduling draw – games against the league's two powerhouse divisions, the AFC East and NFC East. The Saints were no one's favorite to win the division, much less the conference or the Super Bowl.
But the Saints rocked the lowly Detroit Lions in the opener, then went to Philadelphia and ripped the Super Bowl aspirant Eagles, 48-22. With a business-as-usual romp in Buffalo over the lowly Bills, the Saints found themselves a surprising 3-0 at the end of the September.
The Saints started to think they were a pretty good team, and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. New Orleans became a good football team, storming off to a franchise-best 13-0 start on the way to its first Super Bowl championship.
In a parity-driven league, you see it almost every year. A team on no one's radar storms through September unbeaten. It begins thinking it's a good football team, then it starts playing like a good football team and, finally, it becomes a good football team.
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