It wasn’t much of a football game, but it goes down as a Black and Gold victory as New Orleans defeated the quarterback less Denver Broncos 31-3. Because of COVID issues involving the Broncos QBs, Denver was forced to use a practice squad receiver and running backs as their quarterbacks. Coach Sean Payton summed it up well.
“This is a challenging year, I felt bad for the cardboard fans, it is what it is,” said Payton.
The victory improves the Saints record to 9-2 and New Orleans starting quarterback Taysom Hill is not apologizing for taking advantage of the short-handed Broncos.
“It is hard to win in this league, it’s hard to win nine games this early, so overall, a win is a win and we’ll take it anyway we can get it,” said Hill.
Hill only threw for 78 yards. But Payton says the game plan was to keep the ball on the ground.
“Taysom played this thing just how I wanted him to play it, and it doesn’t have to be aesthetically pleasing to be effective, the job is to win and he did a good job of that,” said Payton.
Hill rushed for 44 yards and two touchdowns, while Latavius Murray led all rushers with 124 yards and two touchdowns. Denver completed just one pass and had 112 yards of offense.
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