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Defense was dismal
It’s hard to overstate how bad the Saints defense was Sunday. Fitzpatrick torched the group for 417 yards and four touchdowns, finishing with a 156.2 passer rating. Fitzpatrick also ran nine times for 36 yards and scored, and his 12-yard run late in the fourth quarter converted a third down and effectively ended the game.
The pass rush was pretty much non-existent for the Saints. The secondary allowed too many long completions. The linebackers let too many run plays reach the secondary.
Sunday’s game was reminiscent of the season opener in Minnesota last year as the Saints defense allowed big play after big play.
With a performance as bad as Sunday’s, the Saints coaches and players deserve equal blame. The defense looked totally unprepared, and the players made repeated physical and mental errors.
Even cornerback Marshon Lattimore, the reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year, had a rough day. As Mike Evans created long plays, Lattimore looked worse Sunday than in any game last year. On the other side, DeSean Jackson burned Saints cornerback Ken Crawley multiple times, too.



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Brees is still the man.

So is Kamara.

But Leon, can't do it all.

The D let the rest of the team down.

Need more contribution from the TEs and WRs (other than MT)... and other RBs. Thank you, Mark Ingram.

Peat not playing affected us.

AWOL were the DLine, LBers, and DBs. Never seen Lattimore look this bad. Hopefully not a sophomore jinx hangover.


Move on and forget this game. Hopefully we can regroup like we did last year.

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