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I attended the Eagles-Saints game. I have no memory of the Saints trying to run-up the score on the Eagles. And the scoring summary shows that we did not.
We won the game 48-7. We scored our last touchdown to go up 45-7 with 13:15 left in the fourth quarter. In the last 13 minutes of the game, we scored three points--a 19 yard field goal--to go up 48-7. And again my memory is that we were not trying to score another touchdown at the end and that Philadelphia kept its first-string in the game until the end.
Had Gregg Williams been coaching the Eagles, I would understand questions of whether we were trying to run-up the score. But to my knowledge, Payton and Doug Peterson are friends.
The talk that we ran up the score is (a) false; (b) demeaning to the Eagles as an NFL team, much less the defending Super Bowl champions--this is not eighth-grade football; and (c) misleading because it diminishes the extent of the Saints' domination of the game--we didn't score a cheap touchdown with two minutes to go, and the margin of victory could have been worse had we actually tried to run up the score. Simply stated, at what point in the game with how much time remaining should the Saints have tried to stopped scoring points.
We won the game 48-7. We scored our last touchdown to go up 45-7 with 13:15 left in the fourth quarter. In the last 13 minutes of the game, we scored three points--a 19 yard field goal--to go up 48-7. And again my memory is that we were not trying to score another touchdown at the end and that Philadelphia kept its first-string in the game until the end.
Had Gregg Williams been coaching the Eagles, I would understand questions of whether we were trying to run-up the score. But to my knowledge, Payton and Doug Peterson are friends.
The talk that we ran up the score is (a) false; (b) demeaning to the Eagles as an NFL team, much less the defending Super Bowl champions--this is not eighth-grade football; and (c) misleading because it diminishes the extent of the Saints' domination of the game--we didn't score a cheap touchdown with two minutes to go, and the margin of victory could have been worse had we actually tried to run up the score. Simply stated, at what point in the game with how much time remaining should the Saints have tried to stopped scoring points.