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Malcolm Jenkins turning into elite defender for the Saints
December 16, 2010 by phil.lasseigne
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When the Saints used the 14th pick in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft to select Malcolm Jenkins, there were lots of question marks surrounding the pick. Scouts around the country claimed that the cornerback out of Ohio State University didn’t have the speed to play as a corner in the NFL, that [...]
Saints blow past Rams, 31-13
December 13, 2010 by phil.lasseigne
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It wasn’t the blowout that the final score indicated, but the Saints (10-3) used a big first quarter and stingy red zone defense to defeat the St. Louis Rams (6-7) by the score of 31-13 in the Superdome on Sunday. Saints quarterback Drew Brees and star receiver Marques Colston got off to a fast start, [...]
Cowboys Receiver Roy Williams Accepts Responsibility for Loss to Saints
November 29, 2010 by Jeric Griffin
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During the Cowboys’ 30-27 loss to the Saints on Thanksgiving, Dallas wide receiver Roy Williams had his best game this season since Jon Kitna took over at quarterback for the injured Tony Romo. The former Detroit Lion caught five passes for 83 yards, including a 47-yard reception on third-and-six on the Cowboys’ second-to-last drive with [...]
Saints’ Bush struggles in return
November 27, 2010 by phil.lasseigne
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In all of the hoopla of the Saints’ game against the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day, the return of offensive dynamo Reggie Bush was one of the reasons many of the NFL’s pundits were predicting a Saints victory. And even though he returned, and played sparingly against the Cowboys, the Saints were able to win in [...]
Brees awarded FOX’s ‘Galloping Gobbler’ award
November 26, 2010 by phil.lasseigne
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As if rolling into Dallas on Thanksgiving Day wasn’t enough, the Saints win on Thursday earned Saints quarterback Drew Brees another piece of hardware to put on his mantle. Every year that there is a Thanksgiving Day football game on FOX, the broadcast company gives an award to the MVP of the day’s game. The [...]
Saints squeak past ‘Boys in Thanksgiving thriller
November 26, 2010 by phil.lasseigne
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It is a Thanksgiving that Saints fans won’t quickly forget. The team made their presence felt during their first ever appearance on a Thanksgiving game by defeating the Dallas Cowboys 30-27 in Texas as the second of the three Thanksgiving day games. The Saints marched out to a 17-0 lead midway through the first quarter [...]
Saints lead the NFL in pass defense
November 16, 2010 by phil.lasseigne
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To Saints fans, the following names ring ominous: Fred Thomas, Tebucky Jones, Jason David, and Josh Bullocks. For newer Saint fans, those are the names of former Saints defensive backs that helped earn the Saints the nefarious title of consistently having one of the worst pass defenses in the NFL year after year in the [...]