New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton has been the offensive play-caller for the team for most of his career because it’s something he loves to do, and he happens to be really good at it. Payton, however, is prepared to quit calling offensive plays this season if it helps him manage the entire team better. LINE: Giants -4.5. O/U: 52.5ABOUT THE SAINTS (0-1): While Cooks and Snead garnered the majority of the attention, tight end Coby Fleener was limited to just one catch for four yards in his debut despite playing on 56 of the team’s 69 offensive snaps. “You know the offense is going to have to be productive at some point”. “I feel like it was since they scored, we had to score”.
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Drew Brees, who had his 14th 400-yard passing game and threw four touchdown passes against the Raiders, said he wouldn’t be surprised to see this game decided in the final moments also.
New Orleans couldn’t slow down Oakland in part because it didn’t cause a turnover and did not sack Derek Carr. “But I think that it’s more hard on the back end if the quarterback has time and is able to sit in the pocket and get to his third and fourth receivers, and that happened a little bit in the second half (against the Raiders)”. The Giants plan on scoring plenty of points this weekend.
Brees tied an National Football League record with seven touchdown passes (40-of-50 passes for 505 yards with an interception) while his counterpart, Giants QB Eli Manning, added 305 yards and 6 more TD passes, a Giants franchise record. “The bunch of times we’ve played them it’s been high scoring. It was the pressure that we’re competing with the offense”. “We’ve got to do our part and try to make sure we’re scoring touchdowns”.
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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.
“I can whistle into his ear and just say hey let’s think about this right here this next series”.
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“The thing about that is that this year is a different defense, ” Beckham said. With Saints’ veteran cornerback Delvin Breaux out, Beckham, Sterling Shepard and Victor Cruz will face three inexperienced rookie cornerbacks. He underwent surgery and is expected to miss six weeks. Against the Giants last season, Brees passed for 505 yards, the second-most in a game in his career. The Saints had six running backs on the roster before cutting Spiller, who never produced as hoped after his 2015 signing.
