St.Dan
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Nice catch on the ‘79 game. I’ve seen that one on YT at least once. Final was 14-10 and was one of the few times the ‘70s Saints played decent defense in a fairly pivotal game to help Archie out.That was probably one of our best games in 2017 season and I'd put this comeback close to being in the low end (maybe #8th or #9th) in our franchise's all-time greatest comebacks ever. By all accounts, we should have lost both the 2017 game and our legendary, almost mythical 2009 OT come back @ Washington.
Our 1979 game, OTOH, to certain Saints fans over the age of 60, where our late-70's, "flex defense" rarely for once proved to be effective as we kept Redskins offense out of the end zone like 4-5 times where New Orleans evened their record, IIRC, to 4-4 against a 6-2 Redskins team. Likely one of the Saints best defensive overall performances by that point-blank in its franchise 13-year history.
Besides the obvious No. 1 of this thread (2009), two others worthy of note were 2017 (the big comeback in the 4th quarter) and 1992 (a win in the Dome on MNF against a Washington team that was the defending champion and a playoff team again that year).