For just one night the New Orleans Saints have reminded us of the MAGIC that they are capable of. It wasn’t a dominating performance, not by any means. However, the Saints beleaguered and much maligned defense made play after play after play to keep the team in the game. The Saints forced 3 fumbles on the day and none was more beautiful than the strip sack that (somewhat undeservedly) maligned defensive end Cameron Jordan pulled off to end the game. Cam had a great game with a multi-sack performance that featured dominance throughout the game, couldn’t have been more of an opposite from last years performance against the Falcons.
The Saints had a total inability to establish anything on the ground outside of the red zone (2 red zone TD’s for Ingram boosted his day for sure), however they were able to keep the Falcons just honest enough to allow Drew Brees to exploit their defense to the tune of 312 passing yards and a career (and breakout?) performance from Ben Watson. Drew was absolutely vintage in this game manipulating the pocket and managing to turn a beaten up offensive line into an acceptable one. His touch, accuracy, and savvy were on full display, and that was WITH him still being banged up from his shoulder injury. The Saints are still not a very good team, but neither are the Falcons and sometimes…you just have to remind little brother who’s in charge.
There might not have been a more beautiful moment, nor will there be this season, than when Michael Mauti blocked a punt and recovered it to score a TD for the Saints. At that moment I KNEW we were winning this game, I just wouldn’t let myself believe it fully until the clock read 00:00. That was a magical moment and will live on in Saints lore forever…especially because it happened against the Falcons. A play like that is awesome to behold, but to have it happen in primetime makes it a thousand times more delicious.
RT @BenTennant_: @TeamGleason at least we don’t need a machine to tweet …What dyu call your phone? Say it with me… #machine -SG
— Steve Gleason (@TeamGleason) October 16, 2015
The fact that THIS game happened to a team with a fan base that thinks the above tweet is ok under any circumstance makes it a 1000 times more deserved. Comments like that are not ok, and the incredible class of Gleason to just turn it into a snarky remark shows why he is so incredible, but seriously…its disgusting. The Saints never had to pump in crowd noise, our tickets are always sold out, and the Falcons will ALWAYS be the little brothers in this division. These are the facts of life folks. The 2015 Saints aren’t a great team, but they play their hearts out, they give us all they have, and on nights like tonight they make us as proud to be Saints fans as we ever have been. You can’t ask for more.
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