In addition to his seven-touchdown effort tying an National Football League record for passing touchdowns in one game, it also gave him the record for the most games (10) with five touchdown passes and tied the season total of Peyton Manning (entering the Broncos’ game Sunday night).
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“It was really fun to be a part of something like that”, Brees said. “When you reflect on it, it’s pretty wild, with that much scoring and that many yards on both sides”.
Seahawks 13, Cowboys 12 – Russell Wilson threw for the game’s only touchdown and directed a drive to Steven Hauschka’s winning 24-yard field goal with 1:06 left, and Seattle (4-4) got back to. “I just wish we could have come out on top of it”. The quarter closed out with the Saints ahead 14-7. Snead had just recovered a fumble by Saints punt returner Marcus Murphy at the Giants’ 47-yard line. Drew Brees threw for 511 yards and 6 touchdowns. The reason the Giants lost 52-49 to the Saints on Sunday was because for most of the game the 11 worst players on the field at any one time always seemed to be on the same unit.
Robinson, a three-year veteran from West Texas A&M, was tackled on a second-and-one play from the Giants’ 4-yard line after a 2-yard gain up the middle for a first down.
The 13 combined TD passes set a new single-game record. “It wasn’t quite this big. We didn’t win the game”. “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”.
The Saints were 3-point favorites and the total moved from 49½ to 52, so most bettors either got a refund or got it right.
On November 1, 1987, the Saints won 38-0 at Atlanta one week after Coach Jim Mora’s famous “coulda, woulda, shoulda”, speech that included him saying, “The Saints ain’t good enough”, following a 24-22 loss to San Francisco on a missed field goal by Morten Anderson with seven seconds left. On the Saints’ first series, Brees barely overthrew wide receiver Brandin Cooks who was running free down the New York sidelines.
-Derek Carr, Raiders, went 23 of 36 for 333 yards and four touchdowns in Oakland’s 34-20 win over the New York Jets. Manning went 30-of-41 for 350 yards, six touchdowns and no picks and connected with eight different receivers to scorch the Saints secondary. But the Giants should at least send Brees a quality farewell gift. We did a great job offensively just moving the ball down the field the whole day. I know better. It’s so easy to overreact after an emotional victory. “You had to knock out one of the big teaser games”.
Brees’s completions and passing yards set Saints record. New Orleans used a couple of timeouts and forced a punt with 20-second remaining. I’d have to look. “The ball was about to get stripped out”.
“I just grabbed it, tried to hold on to it, make a play and he ended up face-masking me”. “I can’t explain it, I can’t even lie to you”.
“You want to explode, but that is not going to help”, Coughlin said, “so you are trying to figure out how you can help …” Forbath asked. “That’s what kickers live for”.
The kick was Forbath’s first field-goal attempt as a Saint; he lined up for a field goal seven days prior in Indianapolis, only to have the Saints fake the kick and quarterback Luke McCown complete a 25-yard pass to Watson off the fake.
Brees doesn’t have a game ball to point to, after all.
“That’s what kickers live for”, said Forbath, who became a Saint less than two weeks ago.
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On your radio dial with Jim Henderson on the mic, it was left to right or right to left, depending on which team you were rooting for.
