The New Orleans Saints and New York Giants will try to build off of their 52-49 thriller a year ago. Eli Manning threw three touchdown passes, including the eventual game winner to Victor Cruz. The Raiders piled up 486 yards in Week 1, second only to the Saints, meaning New Orleans’ defense once again ranks 31st, albeit only through one week.
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Being on opposite ends of fourth-quarter comebacks left the two teams in different mindsets coming out of the first weekend of the season. We’re going to play the game as it unfolds. Quarterback Drew Brees threw for 423 yards and four touchdowns.
“Fifty or more percent of games in this league come down to the last possession”, he said.
Mack faced a steady stream of double teams from New Orleans offensive linemen along with constant chip blocks by running backs and tight ends. He and Peyton Manning are tied for the most 400-yard passing games in National Football League history. “When you’re doing that then they’re short other place and we have to make sure we’re taking advantage of that”.
The Saints and the Giants have had an unusual series of high-scoring games against one another in recent seasons.
NY wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. also prepped at Newman and in three years at LSU, played in 40 games with 34 starts and recorded 143 receptions for 2,340 yards (16.4 avg.) and 12 touchdowns. Carmichael handled play calling for the final nine regular season games, when the Saints went 8-1 and scored 40-plus points five times, topping out at 62 once.
The last four times the Giants and Saints have played, dating back to 2009, the winning team has scored 48, 49, 52 and 52 points.
“He was highly graded, and I’m sure not just on our board, but on a lot of boards because of his versatility”, Saints coach Sean Payton said on a teleconference Thursday. A bunch of times when we’ve played them, it’s been high scoring. So we’ve got a new offense. We didn’t play third down well.
The players on the Giants’ offense, who spent the summer going against the Giants’ defense, definitely agree.
Check status of GIANTS LB J.T. Thomas, who was carted off field with knee injury in Week 1.
Rent-a-kicker Randy Bullock missed an extra point last week, but regular kicker Josh Brown returns from suspension this week.
NY also released Brown’s replacement, Randy Bullock, and re-signed defensive tackle Montori Hughes, who had been waived on the final preseason cutdown.
“It’s working out great, I feel like those guys are so much on the same page”, Brees said. “They have some good young talent”. Now the real test awaits them on Sunday. I’ll take the three touchdowns. As the game went on, it didn’t feel like he was going to do that.
This game marks the first home game for Ben McAdoo as New York’s head coach.
They also lost cornerback Delvin Breaux to broken leg, which means they will have to turn to an inexperienced trio of cornerbacks that include second-year cornerback P.J. Williams, and rookies Ken Crawley and De’Vante Harris. He will be out around six weeks.
Can Jennings, a seven-year veteran who had a career-best 863 yards last season, keep up that pace?
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New Orleans signed cornerback B.W. Webb to provide depth while Breaux is sidelined.
