SAN DIEGO (3-1) At NEW ORLEANS (0-4)
Sunday, 8:20 p.m. NBC
OPENING LINE – Saints by 3
RECORD VS. SPREAD – San Diego 3-1; New Orleans 1-3
SERIES RECORD – Chargers lead 7-3
AP PRO32 RANKING – Chargers No. 10; Saints No. 26
LAST MEETING – Saints beat Chargers 37-32, Oct. 26, 2008
LAST WEEK – Chargers beat Chiefs 37-20; Saints lost to Packers 28-27
CHARGERS OFFENSE – OVERALL (24), RUSH (17), PASS (23)
CHARGERS DEFENSE – OVERALL (12), RUSH (6), PASS (17)
SAINTS OFFENSE – OVERALL (8), RUSH (26), PASS (3)
SAINTS DEFENSE – OVERALL (32), RUSH (32), PASS (24)
STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES – Teams’ last meeting came in Wembley Stadium in London. … Chargers 2-0 on road. … Chargers QB Philip Rivers replaced Saints’ Drew Brees as starter in San Diego in 2006. … . Rivers passed for 341 yards, three TDs and one INT with a 104.3 rating in only start vs. New Orleans, marking one of only eight career losses when rating 100 or better. … Since last season, S Eric Weddle leads NFL with nine INTs. .CB Antoine Cason has INTs in his last two games. … TE Antonio Gates has 7,907 career yards receiving, and with 74 more yards will surpass Hall of Famers Jackie Smith (7,918) and Ozzie Newsome (7,980) for fourth-most career yards receiving by TE. … Saints seek to avoid first 0-5 start since 1996, when they finished 3-13. … Brees seeks NFL record 48th straight regular season game with TD pass. He’s tied with Hall of Fame QB Johnny Unitas, who had TD pass in 47 straight from 1956-1960. … Last time Brees did not throw TD pass was Oct. 4, 2009, 24-10 win over NY Jets. … Brees already owns NFL records for single-season yards passing (5,476) and single-season completion percentage (71.2). … Since joining Saints in 2006, Brees has passed for 29,744 yards. … Brees has faced Chargers once, passing for 339 yards with three TDs in 37-32 win in 2008. … Brees passed for 446 yards and three TDs last week. … RB-PR-KR Darren Sproles was fourth-round draft choice of Chargers in 2005 and faces former team for first time. … In his first season with Saints in 2011, Sproles set NFL single season record with 2,696 all-purpose yards. … TE Jimmy Graham has TD in six of his past seven games. … WR Marques Colston had 153 yards receiving and TD last week.
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