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Yuck. Props to you if you remained up on a Monday night to watch the New Orleans Saints journey over themselves in a blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens — and even more regard if you were amongst the crowd packaging the Caesars Superdome for the Saints’ most dispiriting loss of the season.
The videogame was neverever truly close, with Baltimore running out to an early 11-point lead and neverever givingup control. The Saints weren’t able to relocation the ball with consistency on the ground or through the air on offense, and while their defense pressured Lamar Jackson throughout the night the previous league MVP had little problem browsing the pocket to transform long downs. It was tough to watch, and it was a huge action inreverse after last week’s incorrect guarantee of a turn-around. Let’s break it down evenmore.
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| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Final | |
| Baltimore | 7 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 27 |
| New Orleans | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 |
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- Starting center Erik McCoy went down in the veryfirst half with a calf injury, and was atfirst examined on the sidelines priorto being moved to the locker space. The Saints lateron stated he would be doubtful to return.
- Weakside linebacker Pete Werner was accompanied to the locker space on a medical fitnessinstructor’s cart with his right shoe off, and lateron revealed as doubtful to return with an ankle injury.
- Defensive end Marcus Davenport likewise left the videogame with a calf injury, atfirst getting attention on the sideline priorto walking to the locker space. The group stated he was doubtful to return.
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Any hope of completing this videogame with some self-respect was snuffed out when the Saints settled for a field objective down 14 points in the 3rd quarter, cutting that deficit to 11 points — significance they still required several ratings simply to make it competitive. That choice was a coward’s call. It made the margin, well, partially thinner without doing a thing to assistance their possibilities to win. The Saints needsto have attempted to push for a goal there. Instead, they kicked a worthless field objective, and the Ravens penalized them for it a coupleof minutes lateron with another rating of their own.
- Passing: QB Andy Dalton finished 19 of 29 tries for 210 lawns, tossing 1 goal pass and 1 interception while being sacked 4 times for a loss of 28 lawns
- Rushing: RB Alvin Kamara taped 9 brings for 30 hurrying lawns, with his longest effort acquiring 10 lawns
- Receiving: WR Chris Olave was targeted 9 times, capturing 6 receptions to gain 71 getting lawns, with his longest reception acquiring 16 backyards
- Defense: S Marcus Maye was credited with 11 dealswith (8 solo) … LB Demario Davis taped 7 dealswith (5 solo, 2 dealswith f