Alvin Kamara and the Saints overcame a Category 2 hurricane this week. Then, they stormed over the Cowboys on Sunday.
Kamara said after Sunday’s 44-19 win at Dallas that the Saints’ offensive explosiveness is as much mental as it is physical, a belief they have not only in their play but also their gameplans under new coordinator Klint Kubiak.
“They’re putting us in position and we’re just bringing it to life,” said Kamara, who recorded 180 scrimmage yards and four touchdowns on 22 touches Sunday. “We’re just, ‘set, hut’ and we’re going. We’ve got great ball plays and great players and when you’ve got those two, I think the sky’s the limit.”
The limit certainly wasn’t the roof of AT&T Stadium on Sunday. New Orleans gashed the Cowboys for first-half touchdown passes from Derek Carr to Rashid Shaheed (70 yards) and Kamara (57) to build a 21-6 advantage. Kamara caught Carr’s screen pass 1-yard behind the line of scrimmage and raced through the center of the Dallas defense, accelerating to the right sideline.
On the Saints’ previous series, Shaheed beat cloud coverage on his touchdown, “which is insane that he out-ran that,” Carr said. “God blessed him to be able to run really fast and I just prayed that the ball got there.”
Carr and Shaheed, who also caught a 59-yard touchdown in Week 1, were unquestionably on the same page after the snap. What’s insane is that Shaheed is averaging 24.1 yards per reception (seven catches, 169 yards and two touchdowns) through two games. On Sunday’s touchdown, Carr said he initially thought his target was going to be Chris Olave underneath.
“And as soon as I turned around,” Carr said, “I saw ‘Shid already that far down the field and I thought, ‘Holy crap, he’s out-running them.’ The play, everyone’s going to see it as, ‘Wow, what a play.’ The way he ran and the angle he took was so elite, I just wanted to hug him. ‘Thank you so much for seeing that the way you saw it.’ I saw it and I’m like, please, and he hit it. Oh, my gosh. This guy, he’s different. He’s a game-changer for sure.”
Olave is also a game-changer – the Saints obviously have many of them. He set up Kamara’s first touchdown with a magnificent, 39-yard reception on the team’s first series. Olave finished with four catches for 81 yards.
Entering its Week 3 game against Philadelphia, New Orleans has scored on 16 of its 21 possessions (76.2 percent). A breakdown of those 21 drives: 11 touchdowns, five field goals, three punts, one interception and one ended by the clock.Alvin Kamara and the Saints overcame a Category 2 hurricane this week. Then, they stormed over the Cowboys on Sunday.
Kamara said after Sunday’s 44-19 win at Dallas that the Saints’ offensive explosiveness is as much mental as it is physical, a belief they have not only in their play but also their gameplans under new coordinator Klint Kubiak.
“They’re putting us in position and we’re just bringing it to life,” said Kamara, who recorded 180 scrimmage yards and four touchdowns on 22 touches Sunday. “We’re just, ‘set, hut’ and we’re going. We’ve got great ball plays and great players and when you’ve got those two, I think the sky’s the limit.”
The limit certainly wasn’t the roof of AT&T Stadium on Sunday. New Orleans gashed the Cowboys for first-half touchdown passes from Derek Carr to Rashid Shaheed (70 yards) and Kamara (57) to build a 21-6 advantage. Kamara caught Carr’s screen pass 1-yard behind the line of scrimmage and raced through the center of the Dallas defense, accelerating to the right sideline.
On the Saints’ previous series, Shaheed beat cloud coverage on his touchdown, “which is insane that he out-ran that,” Carr said. “God blessed him to be able to run really fast and I just prayed that the ball got there.”
Carr and Shaheed, who also caught a 59-yard touchdown in Week 1, were unquestionably on the same page after the snap. What’s insane is that Shaheed is averaging 24.1 yards per reception (seven catches, 169 yards and two touchdowns) through two games. On Sunday’s touchdown, Carr said he initially thought his target was going to be Chris Olave underneath.
“And as soon as I turned around,” Carr said, “I saw ‘Shid already that far down the field and I thought, ‘Holy crap, he’s out-running them.’ The play, everyone’s going to see it as, ‘Wow, what a play.’ The way he ran and the angle he took was so elite, I just wanted to hug him. ‘Thank you so much for seeing that the way you saw it.’ I saw it and I’m like, please, and he hit it. Oh, my gosh. This guy, he’s different. He’s a game-changer for sure.”
Olave is also a game-changer – the Saints obviously have many of them. He set up Kamara’s first touchdown with a magnificent, 39-yard reception on the team’s first series. Olave finished with four catches for 81 yards.
Entering its Week 3 game against Philadelphia, New Orleans has scored on 16 of 21 possessions (76.2 percent). A breakdown of those 21 drives: 11 touchdowns, five field goals, three punts, one interception and one ended by the clock.