January 08, 2012

Saints Offense Breaks Records in Win Over Lions: The New Orleans Saints and Detroit Lions combined for a record 1,038 offensive yards in a 45-28 Saints victory in the NFC playoffs Saturday. Saints quarterback Drew Brees threw for 466 yards, the second-most in NFL postseason history, and the Saints' 626 offensive yards broke a 49-year-old league record. In another sign of offensive dominance, they never punted.

posted by rcade to football at 10:49 AM - 3 comments

In another sign of offensive dominance, they never punted.

To be fair, there were at least 3 times where they could/should have punted, but (as Collingsworth wanted to tell us over and over again), they didn't want Stafford and the Lions to get the ball back.

I don't see a lot of NFL games any more, but that was a hell of a lot of fun to watch. Megatron is beastly and unstoppable.

I picked the 49'ers to make it to the Super Bowl when the playoffs started, but that Saints offence...damn.

posted by grum@work at 12:39 PM on January 08, 2012

The Saints are just so much fun to watch. Can't wait until next week.

posted by justgary at 07:38 PM on January 08, 2012

Lions cornerback Aaron Berry told some critics on Twitter, "Y'all can go back to being Broke & Miserable ... now back to regular scheduled programming."

posted by rcade at 10:42 AM on January 09, 2012

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