Tyler Shough doesn’t live in a bubble — he knows football means and feels like something different with the Atlanta Falcons coming to town this weekend.

And because Shough does live in New Orleans, that feeling and meaning would be impossible to ignore anyway.

This story may be apocryphal, but to anybody who has been here for any amount of time, it sounds true. After his breakout 282-yard, two-touchdown performance against the Carolina Panthers on Nov. 9, Shough said the people he saw in and around town greeted him like this: “‘Great job. … but, you know, go beat Atlanta next week. Don't really care about anything else.’”

And that’s the reality of life in the NFL anyway, isn’t it?

“You’re going to line up on Sunday against the Falcons, and (the past isn’t) going to matter,” offensive c

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