Factoid
The Saints hung 62 on the Colts. You don’t see that kind of point total often. That’s happened only eight times since the merger – eight times in over 40 years.
Last time it happened was Dan Marino’s last game – Miami lost by the same score in a playoff game following the 1999 season. And it’s something that had happened only once in the last 20 years.
How many points can we expect these teams to score the FOLLOWING week? That is, when a team scores 60, does that make them more likely to score 35-plus or 40-plus points in the next week?
That will be something we’ll check out for this week’s editional of the Fantasy Index Weekly.
TEAMS SCORING 60-PLUS POINTS
Since the merger in 1970.
Year
1972 Bengals 61, Oilers 17 (Hou)
1972 Giants 62, Eagles 10 (NY)
1973 Falcons 62, Saints 7 (NO)
1980 Bears 61, Packers 7 (Cin)
1985 Jets 62, Buccaneers 28 (NY)
1989 Bengals 61, Oilers 7 (Cin)
1999 Jaguars 62, Dolphins 7 (Jac) -- playoff game
2011 Saints 62, Colts 7 (NO)
—Ian Allan
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Posted by JAMES BEAUDOIN | Oct. 25 at 08:47 AM
The Saints could have set some kind of record if they had chosen to.... they put in their back-ups and ran the ball exclusively the entire 4th quarter. Another interesting stat was that Drew Brees threw more TD's (5) than incompletions (4). That has to be a feat that is extremely rare!!!