It's time to stop and enjoy what the New Orleans Saints are getting in the 2017 NFL season. The time has come because, lost in the midst of so many starters and so many great teams, we can overlook that the Saints is no longer amazing or spectacular, it is taking on historical and little less than revolutionary tints. An orgy of monumental football.
Yesterday the Saints won the Washington Redskins in one of the most memorable games of the entire season. Memorable because in front they had a superb team. Few teams with the pride and good work of the Redskins this campaign. With a plague of injuries of those of knocking down anyone, and some options to get into play less than minuscule, they go out to play every Sunday as if the world were going to end at that moment and, in addition, with an exemplary direction. They are an admirable team.
So much, that they won to the very powerful Saints by two annotations, plus a conversion of two, with only three minutes left to conclude the match. It is said soon. In front they had Drew Brees and, with that QB at the controls, nobody can give the New Orleans dead. Two majestic drives, the aforementioned conversion of two, and remarkable bad fortune in the Redskins receivers' drops, took the duel to extra time where a 51-yard run by Mark Ingram left the matter in favor of the fabulous Saints.
What makes this historic is that we're talking about the team's eighth consecutive win, and no one had won eight games in a row in the NFL after losing the first two of the season.
Moreover, what makes this streak unprecedented is the game of the two running backs, Mark Ingram and the rookie Alvin Kamara, who are becoming, and here I quote Mariano Tovar, in the MVP and rookie of the year respectively course.
Do you think it's exaggerated? Well, there are some data that give weight to the previous argument.
Since the New Orleans Saints handed Adrian Peterson to the Arizona Cardinals in mid-October, Ingram leads the NFl with eight touchdowns on his account. He does it, eye, with an average of 120.7 yards in that period of time. But in those same weeks, which are five, Kamara is at 112.8 yards per game. That is, both, individually, at the top of the league in rushing yards.
On the whole? Well, never seen, of course. If they continue at this pace they would finish the season with 3082 yards, which would be the absolute record of a pair of runners in NFL history. Only the backfield of the Cleveland Browns in 1985, consisting of Ernest Byner and Kevin Mack, got each of them to pass 1400 yards in the same campaign.
Crazy. Totally and absolutely crazy. The Saints have not eaten a colin for years, without even going to the playoffs, with a quarterback in the category of Drew Brees, a man who is in the Hall of Fame almost before retiring. They lacked defense and a more balanced game on the ground to really be a great team. We can affirm that that has arrived, and that the amazing Saints have become historical and, of course, as candidates to win the Super Bowl as anyone
