New Orleans Saints cornerback P.J.
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On Sunday afternoon, the New Orleans Saints traveled to Met Life Stadium to take on the New York Giants. Last week Brees threw for 423 yards and four touchdowns. Let’s go get a stop and win it.
Big bucks went a long way in fixing a unit that allowed 52 points and surrendered seven touchdown passes to Brees and the Saints past year in a 52-49 win by New Orleans.
Handed the ball on offense at the Giants’ 25-yard line, courtesy of linebacker Michael Mauti’s sack-and-strip of NY quarterback Eli Manning that was recovered by defensive end Paul Kruger, the Saints were in business with 4:06 remaining in the first half of a scoreless, defense-dominated first half. On the play, Crawley had tight coverage and even touched the ball but like last week against the Raiders, he could not prevent the biggest completion of the game. “Every guy is happy on the defense and we’re only going to get better”.
The Saints needed this win badly, but they’re far behind in the playoff race. The Saints just seemed out of sync from the very beginning. Eli Apple, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, and Jonathan Casillas all performed well which will not show up on the stat sheet due to their roles in pass coverage. No wonder they produced only nine points despite 417 yards of total offense. We got ten points in the fourth quarter.
“At the end of the day, you’ve just got to win the games that come along”. It was a lot of dump passes and underneath stuff from Manning but it worked. The vibe is totally different.
The Giants had way too many drops on Sunday which is the key reason they failed to put the game away earlier than they did. It’s not often to force three of them. “Those are the things and growing pains that we’re going through right now, where we’re doing certain little things, where yesterday the blocked field goal cost us the game”.
Even though the Giants are still at the top of the division, they should be anxious about this performance. Brees was 15-of-22 but for just 108 yards in the first half. The average starting field position for the Giants offense on Morstead’s seven punts was their 20-yard line.
The game was also redemption for the Giants’ defense. “Last season’s last season”, McAdoo said.
The turning point of the game came with 2:30 left in the second quarter of a scoreless game.
“I just heard the hand hit the ball and I just went looking for the ball and it was a flawless bounce and I just scooped and scored”, Jenkins said. “It was a great job by the defense”.
Willie Snead- It was another consistent performance out of Willie Snead, who is quickly reminding us all of Lance Moore.
Manning thinks he knows why they’re making the plays.
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Brees had a couple of chances against the defense, but he did not come through. “We got into some third-and-long situations, or third-and-longer than probably we should have”.
