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The Saints are the fifth team to score at least 44 points in each of the first two games. They also were the most recent — in 2009, the season in New Orleans won its only Super Bowl.
Hill found Deonte Harris for a 70-yard score in the final minutes, but the Cowboys recovered the following onside kick and ran out the clock for a 10-point win. The Saints have now lost five straight.
The following is a detailed list of results and scores from National Football League (NFL) games aired on Thursday Night Football.Starting with the 2006 NFL season, NFL Network was awarded the rights to air Thursday night games regularly (with some extra broadcasts on Saturday nights under the NFL Network Exclusive Game Series branding).
According to the NFL, only two teams since 1970 have scored the same or more in their first two games since 1970 – the 1971 Cowboys (91 points) and 2009 Saints (93) – and both went on to win ...
The Saints are the fifth team to score at least 44 points in each of the first two games. They also were the most recent — in 2009, the season in New Orleans won its only Super Bowl. “It’s just important to get off to a fast start,” said safety Tyrann Mathieu, who had one of two interceptions of Dak Prescott.
But then they became the first 13–0 team ever to lose their last three games of the year. After losing their 14th game to the Dallas Cowboys 24–17, they suffered a narrow loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (20–17 in overtime) after Garrett Hartley missed a potential game-winning field goal.
The highest-scoring game overall was a 1966 game between the Washington Redskins and New York Giants, which produced a combined 113 points with a score of 72-41. The most points scored by one team in a single game is the 73 the Chicago Bears scored in the 1940 NFL Championship Game , which is not included on this list, as their opponents scored ...
Nobody assumed, after the Cowboys blasted the Cleveland Browns last week, that the Saints would go up and down the field on them. New Orleans had 310 yards in the first half. New Orleans had 310 ...