the New Orleans Saints.
Sunday night we witnessed another Super Bowl upset. The 5 point underdog Saints outscored the Colts offense on the biggest stage of them all. It looked like the Saints defense who led the league in defensive touchdowns in this past regular season, did what every defense has been trying to do all year long. Take the ball away from Peyton. They did not sack him but that was not the most important task for the Saints to focus on.
Statistically Manning did not do that bad, he finished the day with 333 passing yards, completed 31 of his 45 pass attempts and threw one touchdown and one interception. His offensive teammates were not doing to bad themselves if you ignore some of the dropped passes(which I will right now).The running game was utilizing their inside run game very well.
Regardless of how good the numbers and averages were, they did not win. Their defense could not contain the Saints offense which was on fire thanks to Drew Brees, the Super Bowl 44 MVP. Brees and co. actually had 100 less offensive yards than the Colts did. All of this does not matter because the Saints went into the locker at halftime with their momentum building up so when they came out in the second half, they did what they have been able to do all year, score points. The kicker Garrett Hartley was 3 for 3 on the day connected with all of his kicks.
Drew Brees threw two touchdowns and Tracy Porter, second year corner back, returned an interception for a touchdown. All of these scoring opportunities put the Lombardi trophy into the hands of the New Orleans Saints for the first time ever.
Congratulations to the Saints but as a Ravens fan I just have to roll my eyes and look toward the NFL draft coming in a few months. I honestly did not have a team I really wanted to win so this game was a little irrelavant to me.
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