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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The New Orleans Saints started the season by losing three straight games, only to play themselves right back into contention behind improved play and Drew Brees big arm.Brees and Co. won their first game before the bye week, then two out of the next three to climb into the NFC South race.For the San Francisco 49ers (1-6), it is likely too late to salvage Chip Kellys first season as coach.The Saints (3-4) should feel pretty confident about their chances coming to the Bay Area this weekend to face the lowly Niners after their week off.I just feel like were building something here, and different than the last few years, Brees said, referring specifically to the previous two seasons, when the Saints started 1/3 or worse, rallied back to 4-4, but stumbled to 7-9 finishes. I feel like weve got some pieces in place now that are here for the longer term and weve got a great opportunity.Last weekend, Brees and his balanced offense wore down the Seahawks typically stellar defense.Flustering Brees will be tough for a defense ranked worst in the league against the run that is a far cry from the dominant unit it was. Brees has thrown for 465, 367 and 265 yards in his last three games, but those numbers were down in the 25-20 win against Seattle considering the Saints ran the ball as many times as they threw it for a change.Just tackle him, said 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks, who has 4+ sacks, two interceptions and two forced fumbles in four games against the Saints.The Saints havent played at San Francisco since losing 36-32 in the divisional playoffs after the 2011 season .Here are some things to watch for Sunday when New Orleans play for the first time at Levis Stadium:BREES CHASE: Brees has a pair of four-touchdown performances this season and has thrown for 18 TDs total to give him 446 in his career. Now, he needs only four more -- might he do it against the Niners D? -- to become the third player to pass for 450 touchdowns. Peyton Manning with 539 and Hall of Famer Brett Favre at 508 are the others.It might depend on the running game. Tim Hightower gained 102 yards on the ground against the Seahawks to become the Saints first 100-yard rusher of the year after taking over for the benched Mark Ingram.He did everything we asked him to do in that game. It was interesting, Brees said. Youre executing the offense, you dont really know until you look at the stat sheet at the end of the game to see how many times we ran the ball, threw the ball, and we were dead even, 50-50. We had 35 runs, 35 passes. It was very efficient.HEY, ROOKIE!: Saints coach Sean Payton made a surprise move just days before the regular-season opener when he cut veteran kicker Kai Forbath and signed Wil Lutz, a rookie out of Georgia State who had spent training camp with Baltimore. During New Orleans victory over Seattle, Lutz made Payton look good. He hit four field goals and was chosen NFC special teams player of the week for the second time this season.KAEPERNICKS THIRD START: Colin Kaepernick has made his mark off the field . On it, he has gone two straight games with a completion percentage below 50 percent. He went 16 of 34 and threw for only 143 yards in a loss to Tampa Bay.Yet hes had memorable games against New Orleans.One of the things that weve always said playing the Saints is youre going to have to put up points, Kaepernick said. Were going to have to be able to match up.IMPROVED D: After allowing more than 400 yards in each of its first three games, New Orleans much-maligned defense has demonstrated moderate improvement the past month under coordinator and former Oakland Raiders coach Dennis Allen. The Saints have allowed fewer than 400 yards in three of their past four games, moving up in the NFL rankings from 31st to 28th. 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Odisha bowled Maharashtra out twice on the second day to win by an innings and 118 runs, and win with a bonus point, in Wayanad.Odisha batted for 2.4 overs and folded for 319, having begun the day on 311 for 9. Maharashtras Anupam Sanklecha (5-75) took the last wicket to complete yet another five-wicket haul - his fourth in three games. In reply, Maharashtra struggled against Odishas medium-pacers - Suryakant Pradhan (4-34) in particular - as they were bowled out within 26 overs for 94. Basant Mohanty and Deepak Behera took three wickets each. After being asked to follow on, they fell to 45 for 7, before an eighth-wicket partnership of 55 between Vishant More and Sanklecha delayed their embarrassment; they eventually folded for 107. Biplab Samantray took a career-best 4 for 34, while Pradhan added a further 3 for 36 to his match haul.With their twin collapses on a tricky wicket, Maharashtra lasted only 376 balls across both innings - a record low for the past ten seasons among matches in which they were bowled out twice.Table-toppers Karnataka conceded the first-innings lead for the second match in a row, thanks to Saurashtra batsman Prerak Mankads maiden first-class century in Patiala.Karnataka removed Sheldon Jackson early in the day, reducing Saurasthra to 34 for 3 in response to Karntakas 200 all out on the first day. But the overnight batsman, opener Snell Patel, put on 72 with Jaydev Shah(39) to stabilise the innings. He then put on 57 with Mankad, to bring Saurasthra to within five runs of taking the lead, before falling to Abrar Kazi (2-66) for 87.Mankad struck at a strike-rate of nearly 80, and finished the day unbeaten on 100 off 126; in contrast, his partner, Kamlesh Makvana batted 119 balls for his unbeaten 30.ddddddddddddThe pairs 101-run partnership took Saurasthra to 297 for 6 at the end of the day. Karnataka captain Vinay Kumar took 4 for 43.Jharkhand bounced back from an early collapse on the day to skittle out Assam for 126 in Vizianagaram. Medium-pacer Rahul Shukla, playing his first first-class game since February, took 4 for 48 for Jharkhand.Jharkhand were 251 for 4 when the day began. Having survived the opening hour, overnight batsman Ishank Jaggi fell seven short of a century, when he was dismissed with the score on 276. Medium-pacer Krishna Das (4-65) removed Ishan Kishan shortly after, and triggered a collapse that had Jharkhand fall from 291 for 5 to 316 all out.In reply, Assam suffered two collapses - 4 for 18, and 5 for 26 - on either side of a 29-run stand for the sixth wicket to be bowled out for 126. Pallavkumar Das (30) and Arun Karthik (27) were the only batsmen to get past 25.Left-arm spinner Manan Sharma scored an unbeaten 82, his career best, to help Delhi overcome a first-session collapse and move into the lead against Vidarbha in Chennai.Delhi, who had bowled Vidarbha out for 183 on the first day, lost four wickets within 19 overs of the second day to be reduced to 74 for 5. Medium-pacer Rajneesh Gurbani (4-62) did the bulk of the damage, before Lalit Yadav (3-79) removed Nitish Rana (27) and Delhi were reduced to 102 for 6. But Manan and Milind Kumar (37) put on 63 for the seventh wicket to bring Delhi close, before an unbroken partnership of 72 for the eighth wicket between Manan and Vikas Tokas (28*) took them past 183 and to 250 for 8 at stumps. ' ' '