Giants Defense Has No Answer for Brees and Co

Drew Brees picked apart the Giants defense for 369 yards and four touchdowns. The Giants defense was miserable and missed the injured players in their secondary. They could get away with second string defensive backs against the Raiders, but not the Saints. The Saints beat the Giants 48-27.

The Saints’ potent offense marched all over the Giants with 502 total yards. Brees threw touchdown passes to four different players including one to Marques Colston who had 166 yards receiving. It’s not good when your safety leads the team in tackles and that’s just what happened for the Giants. Safety CC Brown, stepping in for Kenny Phillips, who is out for the season, led the Giants with 12 tackles.

The Saints jumped out to a 20-3 lead and the Giants were able to get within 10 twice in the second quarter, 20-10 and 27-17. That’s as close as the Giants were able to get all day. Reggie Bush scored from seven yards out with nine seconds remaining before halftime to double up the Giants 34-17.

Eli Manning was only able to complete 45.2% of his passes for 178 yards and a touchdown and interception. Rookie Hakeem Nicks had six catches for 114 yards and a touchdown.

The story of the game was the Giants inability to stop the Saints offense. They were expected to at least slow down the Saints offense.

The Saints gave the Giants their first loss of the season and made them look awful on all facets of the game. Arizona comes to the Meadowlands to play the Giants next Sunday night.