Brees did as he pleased. saying, “It was really fun to be part of something like that”. “I don’t know if I played in one quite like that with that many touchdowns back and forth”. We got the lead in the game [at 49-42 with 7:11 left].
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With 20 seconds remaining, after failing to convert on third-and-five, the Giants punted, hoping to take the 49-49 tie into overtime.
The Saints responded by driving across the 50, but Snead fumbled after a reception on a vicious hit by Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, who had intercepted Brees deep in Giants’ territory earlier in the game. At least the Saints at times made Eli Manning uncomfortable as he tossed his six touchdown passes.
So – if you still haven’t exhaled yet after watching that game; go ahead and catch your breath; and then sit back and relax for a few minutes as we look back at the good, the bad, and the DOWNRIGHT UGLY from the Saints’ unbelievable 52-49 win over the Giants. After the Giants took the lead, the offense overcome the emotional roller coaster and drove 80 yards on 14 plays in 6:35 after not scoring in its previous two possessions. Brees matched the single-game National Football League record with seven of them while piling on a career-best 511 aerial yards.
Manning and Drew Brees moved up and down the field as if they were playing a video game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome before a raucous crowd of 73,019. I tried to make it realistic, but I guess this is our reality. All the way around, it was a great win. “To be on the winning end of it and keep this three-game streak alive at the midway point in the season is something special, and I still feel like our best is still yet to come”.
But immediately afterwards, Brees led the Saints on a 14-play, 80-yard play that ended when he threw to C.J. Spiller for a nine-yard touchdown with 41 seconds left in the game. Defensively, the Giants yield 288.3 yards in passing and 113.4 yards in rushing.
The New Orleans Saints have won 3 straight, 4 of their last 5 and are now at. On the Saints’ first series, Brees barely overthrew wide receiver Brandin Cooks who was running free down the New York sidelines. The punt went into the end zone, so they only picked up 27 net yards, and the Saints went down the field for a sixth touchdown drive.
“That’s what they told me when they signed me”, said Forbath, who joined the Saints on October 21 after he’d been waived by Washington following the Redskins’ season opener. “It was a big play at that time”. Wasn’t even the game high.
The Giants ran three plays with the ensuing kickoff but gained only five yards.
The Saints’ defense then forced a Giants punt with 20 seconds to go. Drew Brees is not at 100 percent this year who’s suffering from a shoulder injury, but he could have a massive game against a New York Giants pass defense. “You want to explode, but that is not going to help”.
New Orleans head coach Sean Payton said the game reminded him of something one of his mentors, former Giants head coach Bill Parcells used to say: if you lose a low-scoring game it’s your defence’s fault; if you lose a high-scoring game, it’s your offence’s fault.
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“I like (Forbath’s) demeanor and makeup, he’s pretty calm”.
