Brees was frustrated, especially wasting a great effort by his own defence, which forced three turnovers and did not allow a touchdown. Just when ole Eli thought he had the leaderboard all locked up with six TD strikes, Drew topped dat with seven.
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“I’m getting pretty comfortable”. The Saints just seemed out of sync from the very beginning.
The New Orleans Saints, already thin at cornerback, may have lost another member of their secondary in Sunday’s game against the New York Giants.
Next Week: The Saints entertain the Atlanta Falcons on MNF while the Giants will host the Washington Redskins.
One play before Cruz’s decisive reception, Manning had thrown a similar pass down the left sideline to Odell Beckham Jr., who couldn’t secure the ball. It would be the only touchdown that the Giants would score in the game, and give them some momentum.
This is a trap game for the Giants.
“He is a weapon in the slot, he’s a smart young player, he works at it”, Giants coach Ben McAdoo said. First quarter, comes out and catches one. Vereen gained two yards on the first play after the two-minute warning to earn another first down, and then Manning went for it all on two deep balls; one to Odell Beckham that he dropped, and another to Cruz that served as the key play in the game.
The 2016 New York Giants possess a pass happy offense that looks awfully similar to the 2011 Super Bowl champs. “I see that progressing as the season goes on”. They held the Saints to 288 yards and three conversions on 13 third-down tries in a second strong outing in a row.
Lutz did hit a 39-yard field goal in the final 11 seconds to close the gap to 7-3, leaving the Saints with 127 total yards at halftime and possibly on track to their lowest point total since they scored three points against Tampa Bay in 2005.
“Looked like one heck of a play in a very big point in the game”, McAdoo said. By converting on third downs, the Giants were able to keep the Saints offense on the bench a bit longer.
The Saints pulled even on a 17-yard touchdown pass from Brees to Willie Snead, capping a nine-play, 74-yard drive.
Dallas was able to manage only 101 yards rushing, averaging under four yards per carry at 3.4 yards per rush. Allowing 35 points against the Raiders last week, the Saints’ defense does not appear to have improved much from last season.
With an 80 percent chance of rain forecast for East Rutherford on Sunday, Ingram is expecting the ground game to play a larger role than it did in last year’s Saints-Giants game. The Giant D-Line that consists of Jason Pierre-Paul, Olivier Vernon, Jonathan Hankins and Damon Harrison won the battle in the trenches and will make things hard on the Saints revamped offensive line this week. “But as spring went on, I started working with guys like DRC (Dominique Rodger-Cromartie) and Eli Apple and the linebackers and we realized that we could have something special”.
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Two, and most important, defense is the calling card for the Giants and the main reason they came away with a 16-13 victory over a New Orleans Saints team that put up 34 points the previous week.
