There I was, pumped for last night's TNF game, hoping to see the high-powered New Orleans offence pick apart let another average team. I was predicting Drew Brees to put up 4 touchdowns and a mess of yards against Dallas. Boy was I wrong! Nothing of the sort even came close to happening!
The Saints' offence looked dazed and confused, Brees looked worse than a rookie, completing very little of his passes to receivers that dropped or mismanaged almost every target. The Saints' defence looked porous and flat, like they were standing still the whole time. The Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott ran through them like it was nothing, muscling his way into gains and decent yardage. Dak Prescott looked a lot better than he had in recent weeks as well, and for once, you could hear the crowd in Dallas cheering loudly and going nuts with most of the plays.
Could the Saints have gotten a little complacent and expected to just win out? It's possible. The Saints players on the sidelines seemed to look on in disbelief as the Dallas offence got first down after first down, as if they had never seen someone do that to them before. I think this loss will motivate New Orleans to be better, and give them a wake-up call that they just may have needed. Better to have this happen now then on entrance to the playoffs.
Look for New Orleans to really put a beat down on Tampa Bay in Week 14. They'll be rested, better conditioned, and looking to prove that the loss to the Cowboys was but a fluke.
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