Saints prepare for playoffs vs. Vikings

With the NFL regular season officially in the books, the road doesn’t get any easier for the 13-3 New Orleans Saints, looking to get past the first round of the playoffs with a familiar playoff foe: the Minnesota Vikings.

It was just two years ago when the Vikings crushed the Saints’ Super Bowl chances on a last second play now known as the “Minnesota Miracle.”

This time around the Saints are looking for revenge from the Superdome and a chance to continue their hot streak, winning six of their last seven games. Saints Defensive End Cameron Jordan said, “At the end of the day, ya know what we have has been steady and it has been strong and we’ve pushed ourselves to be better each and every year. It’s not about them it’s about us, it’s about our 53-man. So it’s about us going forward. We fought to the best of our abilities, made it to a 13-3 season, now we have to deal with whatever we have to deal with. We have the Vikings and we’ll deal with them accordingly as we set to our game plan.”

Saints Offensive Tackle Terron Armstead said, “At the end of the day, this is what we got and we can only control what we can control. We won our games at the end to give ourselves a chance and we had a chance to take the number one seed and we didn’t get it done, so here we go.”

The Saints and Vikings kickoff from New Orleans at 12:05 Sunday afternoon on WXXV Fox.