At 2-5, can the Saints still make the playoffs? Here’s what NFL history tells us.

At 2-5, can the Saints still make the playoffs? Here’s what NFL history tells us.

As the New Orleans Saints use their bye week to rest up from their week in France — and in preparation for the 10-game finishing stretch to come — it’s fair to wonder whether the 2026 season is already lost.

Can the Saints still rise to the top of the NFL’s weakest division?

Had any of us been told - off the back of the Saints’ Week 2 win in Baltimore that followed a refereeing injustice in Detroit - that New Orleans would sit 2-5 going into the bye week, it’s a safe assumption the reaction would be one of shock. But that’s indeed where we are, as