With his mobility limited, Brees couldn’t make enough plays to keep the Saints in the game with his defense giving early Christmas gifts to the Lions all game.
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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees walks with a walking boot at a post-game press conference after being injured in an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015.
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Tate had a team-high six catches for 45 yards and scored two touchdowns for the second straight game.
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“The guy was phenomenal”. “We rallied around that”. On Monday, he also extended his National Football League record to 10 straight seasons with 4,000 passing yards.
Detroit gets on the board 7-0 with Matthew Stafford’s 1-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate with 7:51 left in the first quarter.
With only two games remaining, the 5 and 9 Saints will suffer its first losing season under head coach Sean Payton since he took over the New Orleans coaching reins in 2006. Brees looked hobbled for a period in the second quarter after suffering a right foot injury.
“I don’t know what exactly we’ve got going on here”, Brees said of his injury. “We got behind by a couple of touchdowns, and we just couldn’t pull ourselves out of it”. Stafford led another touchdown drive, their fifth of the game, capped off by a one-yard touchdown run by Joique Bell to extend the lead to 35-20.
“Obviously, if you complete 88 percent, that’s rare”, Lions coach Jim Caldwell said of Stafford. “It’s very hard to do that versus air. He spread it around quite a bit”. “Unfortunately, we couldn’t match them step for step”.
They tacked on even more on a 15-yard touchdown run by Ameer Abdullah to go up 28-3.
To Brees’s credit, he played with tremendous heart throughout the game.
New Orleans managed to cure all of the Lions’ offensive illnesses in one half, and other than a forced fumble in the second, Detroit never let up.
The Saints once-again cut into the lead with a 15-play drive – all passes – that spanned 80 yards and ended with a 1-yard touchdown toss to tight end Benjamin Watson and Brees’ 50th pass attempt of the night.
First, Cooks made a spectacular one-handed catch of Brees’ 28-yard pass and was initially ruled to have scored as he was tackled near the goal line, but the call was changed after a video review, marking Cooks down at the 1. Tim Hightower punched it into the end zone on second down, but it got called back by an illegal formation. The inadvertent timeout came before Drew Brees found Marques Colston on fourth down, but a penalty eliminated that conversion as well.
NOTES: The Saints honored former K Morten Andersen, who played 13 seasons New Orleans, by adding him to their Ring of Honor at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. “I’m sure there will be explanations and maybe apologies about that”.
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Lions receiver CALVIN JOHNSON set up the Lions for their first points of the game with a reception down the middle for 19 yards to the NO 8 yard line. But on the occasions that it doesn’t, one of the possible reasons is that it already had fallen behind 21-3 at halftime, and 28-3 just over three minutes into the third quarter. Brandin Cooks and Willie Snead finished with 10 receptions apiece.
