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As we bring the curtain up on a new week here at Fox Sports Radio,

the weekday lineup has returned.

You have been blessed, depending how you look at it.

Maybe not.

But we begin with the Sunday night game in Norlands, in the bayou, the Saints without Drew Brees, with Teddy Bridgewater passing for only 193 yards and a goose egg.

In terms of touchdowns, the New Orleans Saints did not matriculate the ball into the end zone.

But their defense was able to contain the Dallas Cowboys.

Cowboys did get in to the end zone.

But Alvin Kamara, 69 yards. New Orleans

didn't need a touchdown because Will Lutz kicked not one, not two, not three, but four

field goals. And that was it. So New Orleans gets the win, their second ugly win. They lost the

stat sheet last week against Seattle, but the very generous, boy, were they generous.

Seahawks kept giving the ball away to New Orleans and they were able to capitalize on that

despite a huge disparity statistically a week ago.

So New Orleans ugly, but three and one and Dallas their first

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