Saints Run Up Score on Hapless Colts, Though Media Doesn't Attack Sean Payton, Drew Brees
 

You didn't really think this would go unnoticed in New England, did you?

The New Orleans Saints bullied the Indianapolis Colts for three hours with no mercy. When the beatdown was complete, the scoreboard read Saints 62, Colts 7.

One more time: Saints 62, Colts 7.

That final score was created with four second-half touchdowns for the Saints, including two in the fourth quarter. Despite the thrashing of the hapless Colts, there is no media outrage on Monday morning condemning the Saints for running up the score. Nobody is accusing Sean Payton of being an egomaniacal nut who has no class whatsoever.

It's certainly a lot different from those dark days back in 2007, when evil Bill Belichick shuffled his pawns to destroy and embarrass opponents seemingly every week. Back when John Clayton wrote that Belichick "kicked a Hall of Fame coach while he was down, running up the score on Joe Gibbs' Redskins" and that the Patriots' scoring too many points was a situation that "has turned ugly."

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Some of the scoring at the end was accidental -- we couldn't help the pick 6, or that our backup hands off the ball really well. I suppose on the last offensive TD Sproles could have run 15 yards and taken a gentlemanly knee at the goal line, but come on.

I was thinking the same thing. Can't blame Torrence or Sproles, we played vanilla and taking the gas pedal off would be putting it mildly. Colts just quit.

We threw ZERO passes in the 4th.
Easily could have been 76-7.

Belichick got crucified bc he's a douche. The piling it on part was just another reminder

Oh please! If I were a Saints sports writer I'd write a rebuttal article blasting the Colts for putting up such poor competition that they caused the Saints to have unreal expectations of their next opponent's level of talent, and causing them to not be fully prepared to play the league's best. I'd demand that Goodell step in and slap a fine on Indy for not having a team worthy of NFL standards.
Yeah, I know it's ridiculous. So is blasting the Saints for doing what they're trained to do; score and prevent scores.

Bill didn't pull his starters as I recall. That's what got him in luke warm water. As somebody else already stated, we were running the ball late.

We were way up. The Colts scored. So we put the hammer down again, then we eased up at the end. What are we supposed to do, keep it close?

:doh:

it would be impossible to have a classier blow out.

It was a franchise record something we should celebrate - not feel guilty about.

We shut it down at the end.
I have no idea who could be complaining about a well deserved spanking.
I hope that game set a new standard for this group.

We pulled Drew Brees in the 3rd freaking quarter.

Bill Belacheat used his starters the entire game during huge blowouts. He would go for it on 4th down and had Brady throwing TD passes until time expired.

The difference is simple. We pulled our starters. Drew was pulled in the 3rd quarter.

Leigh Torrence is technically our 4th string cornerback.

There is no comparison.

...And Drew was pulled before getting to his 350+ yards per game to keep his record going. Class act by our team and coaching staff. The Indy players quit and that was after Dungy had ranted and raved over Indy not giving up despite these difficult times. Whatever.

I was there.
The Colts were completely hopeless.
Their defense was so weak that I don't think Payton Manning could have scored enough points to offset them.

If I remember correctly, the Colts came to the Superdome not too long ago during the Haslet era and dropped 55 points on the Saints.

Final score 55 to 21. There was no outrage.

I think 62 to 7 was a fitting revenge.

There is no comparison because it is completely different situations.

You can't shut it down after the first quarter, there is way to much time left on the clock and a lot of football to go.

You don't know what is going to happen in the second half to shut down at the half even.

Hell look what happen to Bronco's and Dolphins.

I understand if you're up 3 scores and 2 minutes left but it all comes down to how much football is left in the game and there sure was a lot to go in the Saints game.

My impression of the score was that once we reached a certain point, we were just running the ball to try and run out the clock. The Colts weren't tackling anyone!

I was worried that folks would think we were running up the score. But we really did back off and Brees came out early(not even allowing another 350 yd. game). Sproles was proabaly one of the few that was playing and shouldn't have been. You know what? Screw whoever thinks that F 'em. I dont think we will be haunted by the ghost of bad kharma for this win.

I would have went for more....

How many teams used to do that to us on a regular basis back in the dark days? We played the game, the way it should have been played, and screw anyone who says otherwise.... And Halo, i remember that game u referred too.... Payback is a ***** huh?

Remember the Saints getting critcized by Dallas players for NOT scoring against Dallas in 2006 while ahead 42-17?

I don't remember a lot of critcism of the Patricheats when they beat Tennessee? 69-0 in '09; and Brady and co. played the whole game. And I believe it was a home game for Tennesee .

It was a Pats home game cause I remember them dropping 50 in a blizzard

Nothing much to see here. We all knew this article was coming, even before the game was over. Someone is just pissed because their favorite team got the snot beat out of them.

That's it! It was Dungy who wrote that article!! LOL

This is why everyone west Maryland hates the east coast media

Maybe it was payback for the last time the Saints came to the Dome.
LAST GAME AT SITE
9/28/03: Colts 55, Saints 21. Manning passes for 314 yards & 6 TDs for 158.3 passer rating, highest possible rating a passer can achieve.
Maybe the Colts just really sucked,
Or maybe it was just football.

This "greatest performance of all time," "best team ever," "most hated coach ever," **** has to stop.
ESPN created this...
ESPN sucks.
The thing about sports is all this stuff has already happened.

There was a Bill Belichick before Bill Belichick, his name was Bill Walsh. Before him Vince Lombardi. Paul Brown.

The problem is this hack is attacking his own kind.

No one got mad when the Colts ran it up on the Saints in 2003. Or when the Packers did it to the Saints in 2005 (50-3).
Or when the league ran it up against the Saints from 1967 to 2009.

Dear East coast media,

Take my team's name out your mouth.
Go back to defending Belichick for cheating...
And learn that life is cyclical.

If the Colts didn't like the score they should have done something about it!! LOL.

The idiot is an ass cok

Cue the violins! Ran up the score? I don't think Daniel threw a pass did he? What are the RB's supposed to do? Fall down?

I know Manning was out....but the colts did score 21 points in 4 mins before. The whole thing about running up scores is stupid. if you don't want to get embarrassed play harder.

Let's see now. Thanks to the Saints you can't win a playoff game in overtime with a field goal (AKA the "Hartley" rule). The NFL will probably have a new rule that if one team is ahead of the other by more than a touchdown you have to kick off to them after they score so they can catch up. AKA the "Colts" rule.

One of the college all star bowl games had that rule to keep the games close.

That sounds scary to me.....the NFL just might go that direction.

I'm pretty sure it was either the Senior Bowl or the Hula Bowl. My first thought was the Senior Bowl, but for some reason it seems that when Archie was a Sr., he played in the Hula Bowl, and it seems like he was able to take advantage of that rule and continue playing in the 4th quarter even after his team had just scored. I may not be remembering this correctly, though.

Chase didn't throw a pass in the 4th quarter.

Makes sense in the college all-star games. Coaches and scouts don't care about the score, they just wanna see both sides get about the same amount of snaps.

You guys missing the point of what it means to run up the score.

When there is a lot of time left in the game its not running up the score... its scoring what ever you can because you don't know what is going to happen and the other team makes a comeback.

Late in the game when you have them beat say 24 to 0 with 2 minutes to the gentlemen thing to do is not throw a touchdown pass... that is running up the score not what the Saints did. It totally 2 different things.

Obviously the Saints pulled Brees out before the 4th quarter and only ran the ball after that so its no harm and clearly no foul.

Here's a link to the article, since its no longer on the home page...

Saints Run Up Score on Hapless Colts, Though Media Doesn't Attack Sean Payton, Drew Brees


Blogging does not equal journalism, and this is from NESN, a homer website for the New England Sports Network, so don't be fooled into thinking it was written by a writer.

At first I was going to point out that the blogger/homer (can't call him a writer) was actually defending the Saints blowout, but simply crying foul about unequal treatment by the public and media at large. But then I saw the part about "Vicodingate" vs. "Spygate" and I saw behind that thin veneer of a sportswriter, an actual crybaby homer...the kind you don't like to sitting next to you at a sports bar when the games are on, because they can't acknowledge facts.

Sean Payton is no Bob Stoops.

hammer down don't let up rams next