Latest / AFR Saints / Saints Blow Double-Digit Lead in 35-27 Loss to Raiders | 4 Fourth-Quarter Turnovers

Transcript

Saints Blow Double-Digit Lead in 35-27 Loss to Raiders | 4 Fourth-Quarter Turnovers · AFR Saints

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: AFR On Demand is brought to you by Breck Golf.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Try Beaver Creek today. Just 20 minutes from downtown Baton
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Rouge in the Zachary area. They've got a PGA Tour
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: driving range, a short game practice area, 30 to 40
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: yard practice shots. It's a great place to chip and
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: putt and practice if you don't have time for a
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: full round. Book your tee time today. Golf.breck.org. Golf.breck.org.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: Here's Johnson. He lost the ball to the stiffer. Still
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: on the carpet. Eric Stokes on top. A fumble recovered
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: by the Raiders. Tough battle.
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: Really good game. Ultimately, you know, turnovers in the fourth
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: quarter got us, and we're unable to overcome those. These
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: guys are better than us, and, you know, there's a
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: lot of good stuff on this film, but ultimately we
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: didn't get it done collectively.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Gag me with a sweaty tube sock.
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: Ugh.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Saints lose 35-27 to the Raiders. After you go and
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: steal one on the road against Baltimore as an eight
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: and a half point underdog, you come home and you
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: just hand it right back to the Raiders. A game
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: where you led by double digits against in the second half,
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: and you.
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: Turned the ball over four.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: Friggin' times in the fourth quarter. I mean, you just
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: defecated all over yourself in the fourth quarter. What a collapse, man.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: How disheartening.
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: Look, I.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Certainly thought New Orleans would be one and two through
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: three games. I thought they'd lose the two road games
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: and beat the Raiders. But you go and have the
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: amazing comeback and do all the heavy lifting to get
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: that road win, only to come home in front of
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: a bonkers crowd where you build the lead and then
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: you hand it right back. A team that's been notorious
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: for starting slow and finish strong did the opposite in
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: this game. Just an absolute melt. An inexplicable, inexcusable melt
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. I mean, you could not have
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: had a better sequence to start the second half. I mean, remember,
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: they're trying to go back-to-back. End of the first half,
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: start of the second. Because they score right before half
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: to go up 16-13. They get the ball to start
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: the second half. Now they're trying to build a two-score lead.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: And what does your defense do?
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: Three and out. Hell yeah. Let's go. Your offense gets
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: the ball. Boom. Right down the field in the third quarter.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: 12 plays, 87 yards, 650 off the clock.
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: Right up your donkey. Saints lead 20-16. Then what happens?
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: Ensuing kickoff, you jar the ball loose, you recover, you're
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: right back in the end zone two plays later. Two plays,
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: 32 yards, took 47 seconds, the Noah Fant touchdown, and
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: just like that, you're up 27-16. You got an 11-point lead,
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: the roof is about to blow off the Superdome, it
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: could collapse on the Raiders, and then what happens? Five plays,
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: they score. Even after that, even after that, I don't
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: feel great, but the offense has been moving all day.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: That offensive line has done a fantastic job holding up
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: against a really elite pass rush from the Raiders without
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: Kelvin Banks and the Saints punt. And this, to me,
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: I thought was the game. I thought this was the game.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: The Raiders scored. It's a five-point game.
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: It's 27-22.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: You're late in the third.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: The Raiders have the ball now with a chance to
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: go take the lead. And your defense, just like at
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: the start of the second half, forces a three and out.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going, this is it. This is your chance. You
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: have your, if I could see a line from Russ Mitchell,
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: put your foot on his throat and choke him out.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Here's your opportunity. Go back, score, make it a two
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: score game. Let's go home and celebrate. And my goodness,
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: Saints are trying. matriculating the ball down the field, nine plays,
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: and then boom.
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: Sack fumble.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: You had third and four at the Vegas 29-yard line,
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: sack fumble. Now, this play is going to be the
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: center of debate for Saints fans, and I get it.
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: You're upset about this today? I don't blame you one iota.
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: You should be.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: Because we saw an almost mirror image of this play
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: two weeks ago in Detroit when the Saints had a
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: defensive score taken off the board because of a cockamamie
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: rule that we were all told, yeah, but I know
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: what it looked like, and I know the ball went
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: backwards 20 yards, but the intent was to throw the
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: ball forward, and so it's actually an incomplete forward pass.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: None of us liked it.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: I crapped on it, said it's an awful rule, even
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: if enforced properly, it needs to change. And the same
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: stinking thing happens, and it's a fumble. Again, I think
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: it's a fumble. But so too was the play two
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. The inconsistencies are the hard things to reconcile. Anyway,
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: in this moment, you're trying to put the game away. Instead,
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: they have the ball, new life, and we all know
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: what happened after that point. After the Saints fumbled, the
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: Raiders go down and score to take a 28-27 lead,
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: and the Saints just decided that they were going to
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: implode and be a team that looked like the Little
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: Giants or something like that who just never played football before.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is how the Saints ended the football
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: game offensively.
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: They're serious.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: After the touchdown to go up 27-16, punt, fumble, interception, fumble, fumble.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: Horrendous.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a gigantic positive. I thought this is
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: the best game I've seen Chris Alave play in his life.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I've been hard on Chris Alave, y'all. I think he's
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: an outstanding football player. My contention has been he's not
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: a dominant number one that's worthy of being paid like
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: the sixth best receiver in the NFL. That's been my contention.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: Too many people misconstrue what I'm saying. I've never said
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: he's bad. I haven't said he's not a great receiver.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: I think all those things are true. I said I
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: wouldn't pay him like the sixth best receiver in the NFL.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: That's my point. I don't think that's outlandish. You can
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: keep all your stat padding games where he gets 15
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: targets and has a lot of yards.
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: I don't care.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: I want impactful plays. And in this game, Chris Alave
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: time and again made impactful plays. And I love to
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: see that. Please prove me wrong. Prove to me that
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: you're worth $ 30 million a year.
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: Please. I want to be wrong on that.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: First touchdown drive of the game, third and 11 after
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: the illegal shift, a lave. Second touchdown drive at the
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: end of the first half, back-to-back plays, 13 yards, 16 yards, boom, boom, boom,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: a lave right down the field. The third quarter touchdown drive,
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: he makes the reception, gets you down to the one
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: yard line when they went to Jawan Johnson next. It
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: looked like maybe he had gotten in, but contested catch
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: right at the goal line. Love to see it.
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: Even the play.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: Before the fumble in the fourth quarter that we just
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: talked about where the strip sack fumble, the play before,
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: right before, or two play, like there were two play
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: on that drive. He converts a third and five and
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: the play before was a conversion on third and nine
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: where they went to a lobby to get the ball
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: down to the 29 yard line. Please give me impactful plays.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: Please continue showing me, yes, $ 31 million receiver.
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: Great day by Chris Alave. If I'm going to criticize,
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give Flowers one warranted. Man, was it
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: warranted yesterday. He was awesome yesterday. What was not awesome
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: was the offensive collapse late in the game, and that's
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: the most disappointing. I don't know what the expectation is.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know what my expectation was in this game.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: It was my concern was that great Raiders pass rush
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: led by Max Crosby against a Saints offensive.
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: Line where you lose.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: your top 10 draft pick left tackle in Kelvin Banks.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: And now Asim Richards is replacing him. And for three quarters,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: they held up. For three quarters, they held up. They
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: kept Tyler Shuck upright, moved the ball down the field,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: kept him clean for the most part, did really well.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: And then in the fourth quarter, they all sucked. Richards
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: ends the game allowing six pressures, three hurries, two quarterback hits,
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: and a sack. And most of it was in the
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Maybe I just look and go, he held
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: up for as long as he could, and then at
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: the end, he just wasn't able to do it anymore.
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: How massively disappointing.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Even the other silver lining I could give you from
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: this football game is that the Saints rushing offense, which
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: has been one of the worst in the NFL the
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: past two years, and even to start this season, the
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: Saints rushing offense showed up yesterday. 28 carries, 148 yards,
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: an average of 5.3. That was aided by a 36-yarder,
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Tyler Shuck on the first possession, but it's part of
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: the rushing.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: You hadn't even had that in the past. That was
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Shuck's only rushing attempt of the day, by the way.
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: But I love to see the fact that you actually
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: were able to run the ball competently. Travis Aitken, 13
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: for 57, not awesome, but averaged over four yards a carry. Kamara,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: nine for 36, right at four yards a carry. Kendra
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: Miller had 14 yards rushing on the ground on four attempts.
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, you committed to the run and you averaged
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: as a team over five yards a carry. 148 yards
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: on the ground on 28 carries. I'll take that on
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: an NFL Sunday. What sucks is that Travis Aitken went
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: out with a hamstring injury, and on Monday, Kellen Moore
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: confirmed that this is not going to be a short-term
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: thing for Aitken.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: We'll see. We're gathering a little bit of information. Travis
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: will be time loss with the hammy. We'll see ultimately
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: what that timeline looks like. And then Grando and Jennings,
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: we'll see how that times out. And then Pete Warner. Obviously,
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: we have one more day this week, and so we'll
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: gather a little bit more information.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Another injury to a significant player.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Another soft tissue injury.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: Man, it just mounts. It's been mounting since camp, and
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: this is just so disappointing. The loss is insult to
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: injury with all these literal injuries here. But you let
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: one get away, man. You gave one back, and in
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: this league it's too hard to do. The silver lining
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: is that the NFC South is the worst division in football.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: The Bucs are 0-3 and Baker Mayfield's hurt. Atlanta and
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Carolina are both 1-2, so you're tied right now at
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: 1-2 for the division lead. And I just can't help
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: but think if this comes down to an 8-9, 9-8
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: situation at the end of the year, we're not going
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: to look back at this game and go, that's the
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: one you let get away that cost you.
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: I hope it doesn't.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: I hope they learn from this, they catch fire, and
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: they go on a run. But these are the types
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: of games where it's so hard to win in the
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: NFL that and you're at home with an 11-point lead
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: in the second half, and you have them on the ropes,
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: and you implode. Those are the ones that you look
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: back on at the end of the season and go,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: that's the one that cost us from getting to wherever
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: our goal is going to be. I hope it doesn't
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: happen that way for New Orleans, but my goodness, what
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: an incredibly disappointing day in the Superdome for the Saints,
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: losing to the Raiders 35-27. Now, you've got to pick
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: yourself up. Monday night football against the Falcons. We just
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: talked about how bad this division is. What if it
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: comes down to division tiebreakers? You've got to win your
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: division games. You've got a bad Atlanta team that's going
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: to be on extra rest because they played Thursday night.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Atlanta's got a long week, extra rest, almost like a
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: mini-bye coming to New Orleans for Monday night football.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Better show up in a big way and go get
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: that one done.