Early mistakes, and the inability to contain the Packer running game spelled doom for the New Orleans Saints today. Green Bay amassed 299 yards on the ground today as both John Brockington (23-141) and McArthur Lane (19-140) was the workhorse of the Packer offense. The Packers only threw the ball 12 times in the game and a majority of those passes were early in the 1st quarter as they tried to get Jerry Tagge in a groove after last weeks pitful performance. The former Husker
went 8-12-114 yard and his success without a doubt was due to the potent running game. Saints QB Archie Manning (23-38-240) had a decent day but much of that yardage came late in the game with the game well in hand. Thanks to some early New Orleans gifts the Packers cashed in and led 20-0 at halftime. Green Bay got the ball first in the second half and went 80 yards in 10 plays also using 6:10 of the clock to go up 27-0 and basically at that point the game was no longer in question. Saint fans could be seen leaving ripping the sacks they had used to cover their heads during the game. Saint fans for years have been keeping the paper sack companies in business by
donning the traditional paper sacks over the head at Saint games.Although they managed to end with 21 points on the board the offense did not get untracked until midway through the 3rd quarter. By that time it was to late. To show how dominate the Packers were on the ground in the 4th, they only went to the air 3 times the entire second half.
The Saints ended the game with 3 turnovers, and 9 penalties. All contributed to the lopsided score. Bill Keller was totally snake bitten in this game as the dice rolls continually fell the Packer way. Not much anyone can do when things like this happen. He called a great game but just didn't get the results in the end.
New Orleans and Green Bay now are both at 1-1 on the young season and with teams of this caliber a 4-3 record will likely be good enough to finish 1st in the division.
-contributed by Bill Vogt-
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