The New Orleans Saints interim head coach credited his team for finding enough ways to win in his return to his home state of New Jersey.
New Orleans Saints interim head coach Darren Rizzi made his official return to East Rutherford, New Jersey for the first time as a lead ranking member of a visiting NFL sideline and earned himself just the homecoming he had hoped for.
Sure, he was facing off with a New York team sitting at 2-10 with seemingly nowhere positive to turn except the top of the draft order, but the bigger obstacle laid in drowning out the overwhelming emotions surrounding him from a big contingent of supporters sitting in the three fourths empty bleachers left vacated by the Giants faithful.
It certainly wasn’t a pretty performance that Rizzi put his beloved audience through. The Saints and Giants posted a defensive stalemate in the first thirty minutes of play that included 10 total points and 12 combined drives with less than seven plays and 14 yards amassed. The rest of the way would require the New Orleans defense to spare what was a first half of miscues by the offense and special teams units that kept the Giants in the affair to the bitter end. They found the important paths to making those big stops around their rare scoring drives and then found the ironic turnaround in the latter department to pin another grueling loss on the shoulders of the Giants organization.
“We go through the week with a purpose because we're still playing. We're still in contention. Trying not to be a big-picture guy, but, it's always nice to have that out there so you can focus on the now and not worry about that there's still that opportunity for us.”
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