The New Orleans Saints are looking to avoid an 0-2 start. The last time they began a season with back-to-back losses was in 2017. Standing in their way are the San Francisco 49ers, a 17-13 winner over the Seattle Seahawks last week. Here are four things that have to happen for Kellen Moore to get his first head coaching victory.

Fix the flags

First things first. Nothing else written here will matter if the Saints don’t clean up all the penalties they committed in the season-opening loss to the Arizona Cardinals. The Saints were penalized 13 times, tied with the Tennessee Titans for most in the league. Even worse is eight of the flags thrown were pre-snap penalties. That’s also the most in the league. The obvious result of that is the Saints often found themselves in some unfavorable down

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