Following the Saints 35-29 win against the Detroit Lions, quarterback Drew Brees said New Orleans’ offense on Sunday was “the closest to where I know we can be.”“the closest to where I know we can be.”
“We’ve set the bar high, high expectations,” Brees said. “There’s a reason that we have won more games over the last three years than any other team. It’s because we practice, we prepare, we have a great process in how we prepare for games and how we plan to execute and the level of expectation. And the speed at which we play, the variation with which we can win football games. So, this is obviously the closest to where I know we can be, thus far this season.”
The Saints scored 35 unanswered points after falling behind 14-0 and Brees was very efficient as he helped lead New Orleans on five straight touchdown drives. The Saints converted 71 percent of third downs and were perfect in the redzone.
Still Brees, who completed 19 of 25 passes for 246 yards and two touchdowns with an interception said the team had “a lot of work to do.”
“I hate that we had two drives in the fourth quarter that put our defense back on the field too quickly,” Brees said. “I felt like we had an opportunity to get some points there with our drive that extended into the fourth quarter, and we ended up punting them down and pinning them down at the two-yard line. But we really should have gotten points there. And then we had I think just a 3-and-out that next drive. And then besides the tipped interception, which is just bad luck, in the first play of the game, the first drive.
“Other than that I felt like, listen, it’s hard to put together five consecutive scoring drives. We were able to do that today and it was great execution all the way around.”
