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Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints 8:00 PM ET Why bother playing this game? The whole world says the Lions have no shot vs. The Saints, but that is just the way the Lions like it. These two teams met up in Week 13 with the Saints winning that matchup 3117, but the Lions were very shorthanded.Those differences are sometimes used to explain why, say, men forget to buy the milk when sent to the store by their wives. But making such leaps (as is done rep