{"id":45901,"date":"2014-10-05T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T21:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=45901"},"modified":"2014-10-05T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T21:56:16","slug":"new-orleans-saints-recap-thrilling-victory-over-tampa-bay-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=45901","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints Recap &#8211; Thrilling Victory Over Tampa Bay Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[poll id=&#8221;757&#8243;]<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=45901 \" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=45901 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-39506\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Saints Helmet\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Saints-Helmet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Debbie Edwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TEAM&#8230; Together Each Achieves More. Today, the Saints reinforced that acronym as the team went the distance and beyond, defeating a pesky Tampa Bay Buccaneer team 37-31 in overtime. And while the leader of this team, Drew Brees, struggled at times, throwing 3 uncharacteristic interceptions, others stepped up, cementing the victory. The Saints improve to 2-3 for the year while the Bucs slide to 1-4.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints running backs came up big. What wasn&#8217;t gained by foot was gained by hand as Pierre Thomas rushed for 35 yards, but caught 8 passes for 77 yards. Kirby Robinson continues to impress fans as he rushed for a team leading 89 yards, the final 18 yards coming on the game winning rush. <!--more--> The running game gave the Saints a breath of life, but a peering eye would recognize that the incredible blocking of Left Tackle Terron Armstead was key in this victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints will face another challenge as they pack their bags and head to Detroit to face a 3-2 Lions, who are sure to be sore from a 17-14 loss at the hands of the Buffalo Bills. The Saints will have to heal up a bit, as Jimmy Graham, Jonathan Goodwin, and Patrick Robinson all went down with injuries in today&#8217;s battle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><span style=\"font-size: large; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">RSR is NOW Hiring Boxing Writers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[poll id=&#8221;757&#8243;] By Debbie Edwards TEAM&#8230; Together Each Achieves More. Today, the Saints reinforced that acronym as the team went the distance and beyond, defeating a pesky Tampa Bay Buccaneer team 37-31 in overtime. And while the leader of this team, Drew Brees, struggled at times, throwing 3 uncharacteristic interceptions, others stepped up, cementing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[10696],"class_list":["post-45901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sporting-news","tag-new-orleans-saints-recap-thrilling-victory-over-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45901"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}