Saints fighting pessimism after another 0-2 start

Aug 20, 2016; Houston, TX, USA; New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton during a game against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium.

“He kinda stuck his hand in there right at the right time, but I gotta go up and get the football”, Cruz said. Follow that assumption up with the idea that it’ll be close, because these games so often are, and that the Saints will put up one hell of a fight at home in primetime, regardless of the final outcome.

Williams is a second-year player from Florida State University.

The game was scoreless, barely a minute in, when Steve Gleason came in clean up the middle and blocked Michael Koenen’s punt into the end zone, where Curtis DeLoatch recovered it for a touchdown that set off an awesome celebration.

“As tough as it is to lose a game, I’d be lying if I said there isn’t a little, little, little piece of me that didn’t appreciate what this game meant to this city”, Falcons coach Jim Mora, whose father coached the Saints from 1986 to 1996, told reporters after the loss. “So we’ll get that cleaned up”. “It was just the significance of the hit”.

-LB Sean Weatherspoon: Weatherspoon, who was in the starting lineup for the injured De’Vondre Campbell (ankle), made his first National Football League start since the 2013 season last week.

He earned a starting position with the Saints when the team released veteran cornerback Keenan Lewis during training camp this year. He signed with Arizona in 2015, but was a reserve after being slowed by a hamstring pull. Weatherspoon finished with nine tackles against the Raiders in the 35-28 victory.

22 that the team, in partnership with Raycom Media, has produced adocumentary entitled “The Saints Are Coming” that chronicles the emotional re-opening of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on September 25, 2006. He said it was the right approach to use against the Raiders to keep them off-balance and exploit what he considers to be his team’s excellent conditioning. But when the Saints get their injured starter Delvin Breaux back, he, P.J. Williams, Harris, Crawley, and Moore look to give the Saints a sound secondary for years to come.

“He’ll be able to make a full recovery”, Payton said. The 2015 Giants didn’t have a $200 million-plus defense that can limit Drew Brees to 263 yards passing and no completion longer than 23 yards.

Alternatively, the Saints could once again turn the tides of fortune by leaning on the people who love them most. Still, something makes me believe the Browns will play loose and the Dolphins are 0-2 needing a win badly. The speedy Cooks is a unsafe deep threat who averages 16.2 yards per catch.