Category: Highlights

WATCH: Saints bag critical second-half INT vs. Bucs

Second-year safety Jordan Howden came up with a critical interception during Sunday’s contest between the Saints and the Buccaneers:


The New Orleans Saints have a huge opportunity for an upset against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the road Sunday — and they have surprisingly held the momentum all game long.

The highly favored Bucs did start to gain some momentum in the second half, but the Saints responded with an interception off of quarterback Baker Mayfield by second-year safety Jordan Howden, which ended a drive that could have been promising for the Buccaneers.

The ball was tipped by Saints defensive end Carl Granderson, who got a hand up at the line of scrimmage. The Saints led the Bucs, 19-13 at the bottom of the third quarter.

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Panthers QB Bryce Young pulls out the Steph Curry celebration before throwing a TD

Panthers QB Bryce Young knew he had himself a beautiful touchdown to TE Tommy Tremble before it was even a touchdown.

Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young may never escape the Steph Curry comparisons.

Young, as he has since reentering the starting lineup in Week 8, is absolutely humming in Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Atlanta Falcons. And the confidence, like his play, his growing—as evidenced by this touchdown pass and Curry-esque celebration on a fourth-and-1 in the third quarter . . .

To that point, Young had completed 14 of his 19 passes for 126 yards and two touchdowns—including an earlier 33-yard score to running back Miles Sanders.

The 23-year-old also recorded a 1-yard trip into the end zone in the first quarter, his fifth rushing touchdown of the campaign.

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WATCH: Saints use a trick play for their first points of Week 17

From Kendre Miller to Spencer Rattler to Foster Moreau. The Saints got tricky to score their first touchdown against the Raiders:


The New Orleans Saints got on the board early against Las Vegas, and they got creative in the process.

Klint Kubiak doesn’t dig into the trick bag often, but they have done it twice in the last three weeks. Both times they went into that section of the playbook the result was a touchdown.

In the first play of the second quarter, Spencer Rattler tossed the ball to Kendre Miller and gave the look of a generic run play. As Las Vegas sold out for the run, Miller threw the ball backwards to Rattler who found Foster Moreau in the end zone.

This is a role reversal of the last time New Orleans tried trickery. Rattler passed the ball to Cedrick Wilson who then threw the ball to Alvin Kamara for a touchdown score against the Washington Commanders.

Ironically, both of those plays resulted in the first points of the game for the Saints.

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Saints on wrong end of one of B/R’s ‘most incredible’ sports moments

The New Orleans Saints were on the wrong end of one of the ‘most incredible’ sports moments of the last 25 years from Bleacher Report:

The New Orleans Saints have been on the wrong end of plenty of heartbreaking playoff losses, but one of them is considered to be one of the greatest sports moments in the last 25 years.

Bleacher Report recently released a ranking of what they considered to be ‘the most incredible sports moments of the last quarter century’ and the Saints made the list, but the play happened against them.

Put at No. 19 out of 25 was Marshawn Lynch’s “Beast Quake” run in the Wild Card round of the 2010 NFL season. Lynch ran through the New Orleans defense for a 67-yard touchdown that would go on to secure the win, embarrassing multiple Saints defenders on the way.

The Saints had a shot to win it all that year, finishing 11-5, but lost to a 7-9 Seattle Seahawks squad. If it is any consolation, the Atlanta Falcons 28-3 Super Bowl collapse ended up much higher on the last at the third-overall spot. David Tyree’s helmet catch from Super Bowl XLII was considered to be the best.

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WATCH: Saints use a trick play to score first TD of Week 15

Alvin Kamara caught a long touchdown pass against the Commanders, but it wasn’t thrown by a Saints quarterback:


The New Orleans Saints dug into their trick play bag to score to get on the board for the first time against the Washington Commanders.

Alvin Kamara scored his first touchdown since Week 6 and his first receiving touchdown since Week 2, but it didn’t come from a quarterback. Spencer Rattler pitched the ball backwards to Cedrick Wilson Jr. and Wilson threw the touchdown. Kamara pulled in the pass with one hand to add some extra flair at the end.

Wilson has a perfect completion percentage in his career. This was his sixth pass attempt and completion of his career, in addition to his second touchdown.

The play came off the heels of Rattler’s big pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling. That pass brought them down the field, and the trick play closed out the drive.

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WATCH: Foster Moreau makes must-see one-handed catch vs. Giants

WATCH: Foster Moreau makes must-see one-handed catch vs. Giants

Foster Moreau and the New Orleans Saints offense have had little issue taking care of business against a struggling New York Giants team that has been bitten even worse by the injury bug than New Orleans has.

Moreau made a one-handed grab look easy on a 2nd and 12 play from midfield late in the third quarter. As of roughly halfway through the fourth quarter, Moreau had caught a pair of passes from quarterback Derek Carr for a total of 40 yards. The former LSU tight end entered the contest with 17 catches for 223 yards with three touchdowns on the season so far.

Odell Beckham Jr.’s famous one-handed catch at MetLife Stadium has been a fixture of NFL highlight reels for most of a decade. It’s fitting that another former LSU Tiger would make a one-handed grab of his own.

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WATCH: Saints tie the game on huge two-point conversion catch by Dante Pettis

WATCH: Saints wideout Dante Pettis makes a spectacular grab to tie the game with a two-point conversion against the Rams

The New Orleans Saints were able to tie their matchup with the Los Angeles Rams in the fourth quarter on the back of a Marquez Valdes-Scantling touchdown, and then a Dante Pettis two-point conversion catch. The play by Dante Pettis was pretty spectacular, as Derek Carr had to throw off his back foot which caused the pass to be underthrown, and Pettis was able to come back to the ball and snag it over the top of Darious Williams. This tied the game at 14 points a piece, and brought the Saints back into contention as they were previously down 14 to 6.

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WATCH: Taysom Hill ices the game with third-longest rush in Saints’ history

WATCH: Taysom Hill ices the game with one of the longest rushes in Saints history

The New Orleans Saints managed to pull away late against the Cleveland Browns, and things wrapped up with a 75-yard touchdown rush by Taysom Hill.

This run tied for the third longest in Saints’ history with Mark Ingram’s 75-yarder and behind George Rogers (79 yards) and Deuce McAllister (76 yards). The rush came with Hill in the wildcat spot, where he took the direct snap and ran around the left side, where pretty much noone was there to meet him and he ran all the way down the field for a touchdown.

And this sealed a victory for the Saints as they went up 35-14, and managed to get to a 4-7 record entering their Week 12 bye.

WATCH: Juwan Johnson snags touchdown near the edge of the endzone

WATCH: Juwan Johnson snags the Saints’ fourth touchdown of the day at the edge of the endzone

The New Orleans Saints were in a back-and-forth battle with the Cleveland Browns for most of their matchup, however, they began to pull away with a touchdown pass from Derek Carr to Juwan Johnson that put them ahead 28-14. Johnson was able to get just open enough near the right edge of the endzone, and Carr placed it where he could catch it and still get his feet down in bounds before he fell out.

This was Johnson’s second touchdown of the year in somewhat of a down season so far, but hopefully with another touchdown to his name and some production to get the Saints further ahead in this game, he can come around and make some more plays down the stretch.

WATCH: Marquez Valdes-Scantling scores on the Saints’ longest play of the year

Marquez Valdes-Scantling scored on the Saints’ longest play of the year, finding the end zone for the third time in three games:


Man…

Marquez Valdes-Scantling surprises us yet again for a second straight week with a huge 71-yard touchdown on a catch-and-run from Carr. It was the longest gain of the New Orleans Saints’ season after Rashid Shaheed had a 70-yard pickup earlier this year.

On third-and-one at their own 29, Carr play faked to Kamara who came in jet motion behind him. As Carr rolled opposite, he found MVS on an over route in the middle of the field, allowing him to out run all defenders on Cleveland’s defense.

This touchdown marks Valdes-Scantling’s third touchdown as a Saint and his third in two games. The team has been waiting for someone to step up with Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed unavailable and MVS has been a very pleasant addition in the middle of the year.

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