If you’ve given even a cursory glance at the Saints’ remaining schedule, you’d see that aside from tonight’s game with the Falcons (as 11.5-point favorites) and another Monday night tilt against the New England Patriots in four weeks, there’s really no game on their schedule that they can’t win. The New Orleans Saints could be our second team to finish the regular season undefeated in three years.

Let’s gander at the rest of the schedule after today: only one cold-weather game, and only three other games against teams with winning records–New England in four weeks, and then Atlanta again two weeks after that, and then a Dallas team that seems to have finally found its rhythm. The rest of the campaign is against sub-.500 teams, either in domes or in warm-weather citites. That’s terrific news for Drew Brees and a defense that’s allowed only 92 yards per game, on average.

Brees and the Saints have been the best team to watch; nearly all of their games have been high-scoring affairs. Brees is having a good-but-not-really-elite season, and he’s distributing the ball to everyone. The Saints have six players averaging at least 10 yards per catch.

And I guess Atlanta’s pretty good, too. But they’re 27th in pass D and plus they play their home games in Georgia, where people try to tell you that they don’t watch the NFL because the players make too much money. Look, Billy Joe, when you find me a schoolteacher or a firefighter that can throw 35 touchdowns in a season, we’ll talk. Otherwise, enjoy the game. It should be a good one.

Over the last few seasons, we’ve enjoyed healthy debate over which of the league’s 32 signal-callers was the best quarterback in the NFL. Today, the debate is over: Drew Brees stands alone on the mountain top, yelling random combinations of colors and numbers before taking the snap and decimating his opponents. Last week, it was a shootout with the Lions. Yesterday, it was an asswhipping of the McNabb-less Philadelphia Eagles.

As Eagles defensive back Joselio Hanson put it, “Drew Brees is an animal.”

And now Brees has plenty of help, with running backs Mike Bell and Reggie Bush, wide receiver Marques Colston, tight end Jeremy Shockey and a solid offensive line. This won’t be the last time these guys drop 40 points on somebody. via.

Tom Brady lost against the Jets and Pey-Pey waddles into Miami tonight. But Brees, in this fantasy-obsessed football universe, is making all the idiots that drafted him in the first round look like geniuses. Oh, and I guess the Saints look pretty good as well at 2-0. Too bad they couldn’t have done this right after Katrina hit. Because what those people really needed was some good football…