A 21-point deficit, the largest of the game, became 14 and the Saints were on their way.
“There’s just moments in a game that you feel as a head coach or as a quarterback that we needed an emotional lift right now, we need a momentum swing, we need to make a play and I just felt that I could get in,” said Drew Brees, who had his toughest day of the year with three interceptions, but who came back to lead several late scoring drives.
The deficit was 10 after three quarters, but then the Saints outscored the Dolphins 22-0 in the final 15 minutes. A 21-point deficit was overcome and so was the last knock on an unbeaten football team, could it come from behind.
“All of a sudden you’re sitting there and you’re looking at the scoreboard and it’s 24-3 and you say, ‘How did this game get out of hand like this?’” Brees said. “But, I’ll say, there was no doubt on our sideline that we would come back and win this game, because that’s all we talk about is finishing football games and I think we all knew that they had given us their best shot and we had played about as bad as we could play. All we had to do was string a few drives together to get the momentum back and start making some plays. Honest to God, we knew it was going to happen and sure enough it did.”
The end of the game featured a victory lap by the visitors, whose traveling fans made them feel almost at home.
“We travel really well,” commented an impressed Brees. “Wherever we go, ter is a great
The number one seed in the NFC right now is your New Orleans Saints. As you might expect, Sean Payton was not impressed with that tidbit.
“It’s not the BCS. In the BCS you have to pay attention to the 1, the 2, the 3, the 4. That means nothing here. After six weeks, we have a lot of football left. The
One for the history books for the Saints, who took a bite out of the Dolphins at Land Shark stadium.
