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Saints Dominate Cowboys to Stunning Victory in Dallas
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9/18/2024
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We start with the Saints at the star the Cowboys home opener where they had won 16 consecutive
00:08
home regular season games.
00:11
Of course, they lost to start off the postseason last year against Green Bay.
00:16
You would have thought maybe Dallas could put up 44 against New Orleans.
00:19
It was the complete opposite.
00:20
The Saints score 44, which means they have scored 44 or more in each of their first two
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games, 47 week number one against Carolina.
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New Orleans wins outright by a ton as a six and a half point underdog.
00:35
A total of 47 and a half, nearly skies over with New Orleans putting up all the offense
00:40
themselves.
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It's crazy too, because sometimes you don't really know what you're going to get out of
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a football team.
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I didn't expect this last year out of the Saints, but I expected a better performance
00:49
and probably should have won the division in my mind and also got the 10 wins.
00:52
They weren't able to do that.
00:53
So this year coming and sort of I forgot about team, like I'm not even really going to handicap
00:57
the Saints because I don't think they're the best team in their division.
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It's Derek Carr.
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It's Dennis Allen.
01:00
Why worry about them?
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So when I look at week number one, the biggest surprise to me was the New Orleans Saints.
01:04
Even though we know the Carolina Panthers aren't a good football team, that many points
01:08
at home.
01:09
It's like, Oh, you know, I don't know what to take out of this game.
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Let's wait till week number two.
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And they did the exact same thing against better competition in the Dallas Cowboys.
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And this time not at home in their dome on the road in Jerry world, 44 points at 44 to
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19.
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That doesn't even tell the tale.
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Like this game was even worse than that.
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They dropped 35 points on that vaunted Dallas pass rushing defense in the first half and
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just put it on cruise control in the second going to an easy victory.
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And also after week number two, you really know a lot about teams.
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Do you know who's on deck for the New Orleans Saints in week number three?
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It's the Philadelphia Eagles.
01:42
You want to talk about them getting the Eagles in a good spot off a Monday night game, which
01:45
we don't even know if AJ Brown's going to play in this game.
01:48
He's already out.
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Whether he plays in next week.
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Could we be looking at after three, four games into the season, the Saints as the best team
01:55
in the NFC, who had that on their bingo card?
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They looked every part of the best team, not in the NFC, but in the NFL so far.
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No doubt about it.
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DRS.
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And you know, the defense under Dennis Allen is always going to be consistently solid.
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It's what we saw yesterday against Dallas.
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Now, normally I would give you a hard time for being unprepared in admitting to a national
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television audience that you did not handicap one of the 32 NFL teams to look at for the
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year getting underway.
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But I can't fault you because much like you, I was high on New Orleans entering last year
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as the odds on favorites to win the NFC South.
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And they failed us.
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They disappointed both of us.
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And at the start of the year, when I kind of turned my head from New Orleans, it was
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because the offense was stale.
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First month and a half of the season, midway through October, the Saints were a bottom
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10 scoring offense.
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And then after last week, I looked at what New Orleans ended up doing, still thinking
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they would be bottom half at the end of 2023.
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They actually ended the regular season.
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The ninth best scoring offense in the league, averaging nearly 24 points per game.
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And here we have the Saints averaging 45 and a half points per game, 91 total in two games.
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And Donnie, they haven't even needed the offense to be that great.
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New Orleans scored a touchdown on their first six offensive possessions yesterday in Dallas.
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On their first eight offensive possessions against Carolina a week ago, a score on every
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one, five touchdowns, three field goals, Alvin Kamara, 115 rushing yards, three touchdowns
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on the ground, 65 more through the air, and another receiving score, a four touchdown
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day.
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This New Orleans offense looks like a world beater.
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Not just the Saints winning and covering numbers.
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They beat Dallas yesterday, 17 to 14 in an ugly game, where you look at the underdog.
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New Orleans took it to Dallas, and that is impressive.
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No, it really is.
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Like you go on the road against the Cowboys, you run the ball 39 times for a buck 90, which
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is close to five yards per carry and four touchdowns on the ground, which is impressive.
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And also you have a game that you scored 44 points.
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Your quarterback was 11 of 16, but 15.2 yards per pass attempt, 243 yards and two touchdowns
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here.
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The thing that you don't trust about New Orleans, not necessarily is they don't have enough
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talent because they do.
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It's always like sooner than later, Derek Carr is going to come back down to earth.
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But if your running game is that strong and your defense is playing that well, you don't
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need Derek Carr to win you football games.
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You might just need Derek Carr to manage those football games for you, which is so impressive.
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And also look at their defense like Dallas, 21 carries, 68 yards, only 3.2 yards per carry.
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You said, okay, CeeDee, get yours, four for 19, a touchdown.
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We'll shut everybody else down.
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And they did that.
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As I said, again, the most eyeopening performances of the early season are for the Saints because
04:39
maybe you could have said they could go 2-0, but winning games 21-20, 21-17, not absolutely
04:45
firebombing these teams in back-to-back weeks here, both home and away.
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They look absolutely fantastic and you're right, looking at it coming into the season.
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How many people were saying like the Saints are my dark horse in the NFC?
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I don't think too many people were saying that, Ben.
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