{"id":6310,"date":"2009-12-01T07:31:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/12\/new-orleans-saints-look-unbeatable-while-dismantling-patriots\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T07:31:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T15:31:29","slug":"new-orleans-saints-look-unbeatable-while-dismantling-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/12\/new-orleans-saints-look-unbeatable-while-dismantling-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints look unbeatable while dismantling Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/12\/p1.brees_.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"354\" alt=\"p1.brees.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/don_banks\/12\/01\/saints.patriots\/index.html?eref=sihp\">\n<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8212; They billed this one as the biggest regular-season game in New Orleans Saints history, and while that was a mouthful to be sure, you couldn&#8217;t argue about there being an electric, almost Super Bowl-like atmosphere in the sold-out Superdome Monday night.<br \/>\n  And here&#8217;s the real news flash for you: These Saints best get used to playing on the big stage. Because thanks to New Orleans&#8217; statement-game 38-17 win over the outclassed New England Patriots, there are a lot more spotlight moments to come this season for Sean Payton&#8217;s 11-0 juggernaut. A whole lot more. And like the stakes themselves, the games are only going to get bigger as this magic carpet ride of a season continues to unfold in New Orleans.<br \/>\n  We just found out in eye-opening fashion that the only team in NFL history to mount a 16-0 regular season wasn&#8217;t remotely capable of keeping the Saints from joining them in that distinction. New Orleans overwhelmed the Patriots in every meaningful way, and was so dominant that never-say-die New England actually ran up the white flag with a little more than five minutes remaining, pulling Tom Brady in favor of backup quarterback Brian Hoyer.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/don_banks\/12\/01\/saints.patriots\/index.html?eref=sihp\" ><cite>New Orleans Saints look unbeatable while dismantling Patriots &#8211; Don Banks &#8211; SI.com<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8212; They billed this one as the biggest regular-season game in New Orleans Saints history, and while that was a mouthful to be sure, you couldn&#8217;t argue about there being an electric, almost Super Bowl-like atmosphere in the sold-out Superdome Monday night. And here&#8217;s the real news flash for you: These Saints best &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/12\/new-orleans-saints-look-unbeatable-while-dismantling-patriots\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Orleans Saints look unbeatable while dismantling Patriots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1DM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}