Jamaal Charles Rushes for Over 225 Yards, Chiefs Beat Saints in OT
By Josh Hill
The New Orleans Saints had their backs up against an 0-3 wall and they sure didn’t look like a team that was turning things around. After taking an early lead against the Kansas City Chiefs, the New Orleans defense allowed over 225 yards to Jamaal Charles alone, and the Chiefs powered back into the game to tie it with time expiring, and eventually winning it 27-24 sinking the Who Dat Saints to 0-3.
Charles rushed for more yards than Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel threw for all day long, but somehow the Chiefs put the Saints on the ropes.
That’s bad news for the Saints, who thought that this would be their blowout arrival on the scene and their first win of the season. After getting torched in the first two weeks by Robert Griffin III and then Cam Newton, the Saints were blown up by Charles which can’t sit well with anyone in New Orleans. Wherever he is, Sean Peyton has to be squirming in his chair watching the Saints play the way they are.
Drew Brees finished the day with just 240 yards passing, but he did connect with Jimmy Graham and Lance Moore, making it the 46th straight game Brees has thrown a touchdown pass and the fifth time in six home games that Lance Moore has been dialed up in the endzone.
But that’s just cute statistics and means nothing in the grand scheme of things. The Saints looked terribly mediocre on Sunday against the Chiefs, and proved once and for all taht without Sean Peyton, they’re not a good football team — because they’re not a complete football team.
That was violently apparent in overtime when the Saints couldn’t get anything going at all and kept giving the Chiefs chances to win the game, what the eventually did. It’s the first time since Drew Brees took over in New Orleans that the Saints have started 0-3 but that’s the case on the bayou. The Chiefs of Kansas City came into the Superdome, literally pounded the rock into oblivion and made the Saints look like a flag football team.
Reality in New Orleans is that the Saints don’t have a win through three weeks of the NFL season.