Saints stunned by Minneapolis Miracle

Before Sean Payton and Drew Brees arrived in the Big Easy, the New Orleans Saints had been a historically painful franchise to root for. Yet somehow, the Black and Gold found a way to top the hardest of those hardships with yesterday’s Minneapolis Miracle.
After trailing 17-0 at halftime, the Saints roared back into the game and would have completed the team’s biggest playoff comeback of all-time had it not been for what was perhaps the worst missed tackle of all-time.
All they had to do was tackle Stefon Diggs in-bounds and it was onto the NFC championship game, but it was the rookie Marcus Williams who had picked off Case Keenum in the third quarter that put his head down and got nothing but air. “Man, it was just my play to make. Ball was in the air, I didn’t go attack it and came down, made a great play and that’s on me. I’ve got to be that guy and go up and get the ball, and as a safety back there you’ve got to be the eraser and that was my job. That was the last play of the game, you’ve got to go do it and you know you’ve got to save the game,” said Williams.
Head Coach Sean Payton said, “It’s not on one player now, I mean I’m sure you guys will want to swamp his locker. He’s played well for us all year and it was a timing decision, obviously. He’d like to have that back, but he’s been a good player for us all year.”
Quarterback Drew Brees said, “We’re a group, we’re a team. Everybody is involved, it’s not one guy. So I’m sure we’re going to turn on the tape and say, wish we had done something a little bit different.”
The Saints will need more than the 24 hour rule to digest that loss which included the team’s first scoreless first half in 62 games.