Patriots hold off Saints 27-24; up and down game for the champs
 

The New Orleans Saints stepped onto the field for the first time as the defending Super Bowl champions,

Drew Brees and the offense got the ball first after the Saints won the coin flip and chose to receive. A quick three-and-out though forced them to punt which caused the first problem of the evening.

Punter Thomas Morstead came out and booted a 49-yard kick to Julian Edelman who returned it 40 yards. Morstead made the tackle but ended up slamming his left elbow and shoulder hard into the turf.

Morstead would remain down a while before being taken to the locker room. He came back out a short while later, caught a few snaps, but then got his shoulder wrapped officially ending his night.

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whew, preseason

My sentiments exactly. I will say this though...it's nice knowing our back-ups have a lot of talent and are looking really good. Ramsey looked the BEST I've seen him so far throughout camp and preseason. Ivory held onto the ball. Hill ran strong. Casillas got in there with good hits and pressure. Arrington with a lot of action.

I like what I see.

you said it all danny. i'm going on a limb and saying pj hill will have plenty carries in 2010. ivory looked good but i would have liked to see him in on afew more tackles on special teams but who was on tackles.

watching it all again on nfl net

HA...me too! And I was going to check out the same thing.

I'll say this about Ivory though...after watching him in practice all training camp so far, seeing him actually hold onto the ball was fantastic.

Thank God Ramsey finally looked decent too.

yes ramsey looked good. were'nt expecting much after reading your reports, by the way thanks for them really helps a guy like me that just had a back surgery a few months back. its preseason like we said, a lot will get cleaned up by next week like kick off coverage. lol to start the game on offense 3rd and 8 or 9 and lance went 7 and out. things like that will burn coach payton's but and will be better as we go along.

just to many people standing around on D for the pats 1st offensive t.d.

I LOVE BEAVERS!!!!!!!!

that can go 2 ways D IT UP

And I love it both ways! :D

I heard some people saying Charleston was ineffective but I thought he looked good.

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Ok...pre season was designed to shake the cob web off of your feet ...now we can go and look back at where improvements are needed. Seemed to me the defense especially needs work and some tweaking...nothing wrong with loosing this one,,i think it was the best thing that coulda happend because now you'll really where this team is really at and go work on it.

I thought the first string looked ineffective. If it hadn't been for the interference call on a long bomb our scoring drive would have failed. Having said that I'm sort of glad that we looked sloppy. It'll give Payton a lot of ammunition to motivate his players. Fortunately it just looked like the timing was off on offense and defense just couldn't tackle. Both are correctable.