After being eliminated from playoff contention on Sunday and one night later falling to the Detroit Lions to clinch their second consecutive losing season for the first time since 1999, the New Orleans Saints are in future mode.
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That prompted a fightback from the Saints, who scored 17 unanswered points when Drew Brees threw touchdowns to Brandin Cooks and Marques Colston, with Kai Forbath adding a field goal to make it 28-20. The Saints got a scare when QB Drew Brees came up limping on his right ankle in the first half, but he returned after having his foot taped.
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Sunderland are now seven points from safety, a gap Allardyce says needs to be bridged as soon as possible. We want to play football and if you get a second ball you have to re-focus and fight for it.
Payton still has two years remaining on his contract, so the Saints would have to agree to let him go – which would likely have to come with significant compensation in return. Whether or not he’s part of the team moving forward, Brees deserved better. “I don’t know exactly what we have going on here, but we will see after the MRI (exam Tuesday).”…
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Having said that, the stalemate at The King Power Stadium has done nothing to improve the look of City’s long-term away form. Leicester City showed their class today with their goalless home draw with Manchester City on Tuesday, December 29.
In the seven games under Lombardi, whom the Lions fired on October 26, Stafford had a 86.8 rating, a touchdown-to-interception ratio of 12 to 9 and completed 65 percent of his passes.
“For any coach to be somewhere for 10 years, that’s very good”.
Tight end Ben Watson said he suspects Flynn would be first in line to step in.
“Obviously, you lose ballgames that way”, he said.
However, in the National Football League, a win is a win, and the Lions were excited to pull out a tough road victory against such a high-powered offense.
The Lions looked ripe to self-destruct, but instead put together a clutch scoring drive that included Abdullah’s 27-yard run and Bell’s short rushing TD.
“That was huge just before the half”, Detroit coach Jim Caldwell said.
Let’s check out some of the notable players and stats from the game so we can determine why things played out the way they did.
Brees passed for 341 yards and three touchdowns Monday night, eclipsing 4,000 yards for a 10th straight season. He joins Peyton Manning, Dan Marino, and Brett Favre on that elite list of quarterbacks.
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton works the sideline in the first half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015.
“We’ve been able to run it well out of the shotgun, from the pistol, from under center”. Saints receiver Willie Snead had a career-high 10 catches for 76 yards.
Werder also reports that Brees wants to play in the Saints final two games, as with his $30 million cap hit in 2016, it could be his final two games with the franchise. It was his third 100-yard receiving game of the season. “And Tate extended the Lions” lead to 18 points when he caught his second score of the game from 5 yards out with 4:27 left in the first half. Bell had 71 yards on eight carries, with a 1-yard touchdown.
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