You’ll have to excuse David Edwards’ French, even if the New Orleans Saints have now landed in Paris.

Many of the passionate words the Saints’ offensive lineman spoke to his teammates in the locker room after Sunday’s 34-27 victory over the New York Giants had to be bleeped out.

“We won this game because of our week of preparation and our (bleeping) mindset, period,” Edwards said. “How do we carry that moving forward? Positive. (Bleeping) all together. That’s who we are. We (bleeping) showed that today. How do we build on that? That’s our (bleeping) objective this week coming up.”

Chances are, the language would have been much worse — both in the locker room and among the fanbase — if the Saints had let their 24-point fourth-quarter lead slip away. They didn’t. They held on and snapped out of a three-game funk and gave themselves a chance to get this season back on track.

It was a roller-coaster of a game in what has been a roller-coaster of a season.  They found a way to win and almost found a way to lose all in the same game.

“Resiliency,” said Saints quarterback Tyler Shough.

Resiliency was exactly what the Saints needed after the way things had fallen apart the previous three weeks. The morale, at least among the fanbase, was about as fractured as the broken bones in Shough’s non-throwing hand. The migraine headache that sidelined cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry in the second half had nothing on the heartache Saints fans were dealing with after seeing all that optimism after Week 2 vanish.

Nobody needed this win more than second-year head coach Kellen Moore.

This was easily the biggest game of his young coaching career. No, his job wasn’t on the line. Gayle Benson, despite her words last week about her disappointment with the team’s 1-4 start, wasn’t going to fire Moore.   

But the last thing Moore needed was to be on a 7½-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean with a battered team still searching for answers. The Saints didn’t find all the answers at MetLife Stadium. But it’s a whole lot easier to learn from your mistakes in a win than it is in a loss.

The slow starts are still a thing, evident by the 7-0 deficit at the end of the first quarter and the 10-0 hole they eventually dug. The costly penalties that keep the Saints behind the chains continue. (They were penalized seven times for 52 yards, but it felt far worse than that.) Moore will need to find a solution for their issues at the left tackle position, especially with Pittsburgh’s menacing TJ Watt up next. And surely Moore now knows that his team isn’t good enough for him to rest starters early in the fourth quarter. That decision, aided by running back CJ Donaldson’s fumble, almost cost the Saints in what would have been one of the worst collapses in team history.

The only thing that matters in the NFL though is what the scoreboard says when the clock displays all zeroes. The Saints found a way to win, which is what good teams do. No, the Saints aren’t a good team yet. That can change if they string some W’s together over the next month. Do it enough times over this next stretch, and nobody will even be talking about how bad things were after those three straight home losses to the Raiders, Falcons and Vikings.

Moore didn’t all of a sudden win back the confidence of the fanbase with one win. But at least his team fixed some things that were broken. They finally ran the ball well (175 rushing yards) and they finally forced turnovers (four). Playing on the road seems to be just the cure they needed. For whatever reason, the Saints continue to play better on the road than they do at home. They are 0-3 at home and a two-point conversion in Detroit away from being 3-0 on the road. Next up is a “home” game in Paris.

They will get to answer Edwards’ question.

“How do we build on that?”

The Saints have yet to play consistently for four quarters. What they showed late in the second quarter and in the third quarter is a good foundation to build on.

Drew Brees, who handled broadcast duties for Fox on Sunday, said during pregame that this was a game where the Saints could get some of their swagger back.

I’m not sure how much swagger they got back.

But they should at least have got some confidence back.

About bleeping time.

Excuse my French.