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For the second time this year, the New Orleans Saints were taken into overtime, but unlike the first week of the season, the Saints were able to endure over the Cleveland Browns, 23-22, stopping the visitors on a two-point conversion with one minute left on the overtime clock.

Biggest Winners

Saints Defense

Another day, another game where the Saints can't seem to get their offense moving (until they had to). So it was up to the Saints defense to make a difference, and they did. In the first half, faced with a fourth and goal to defend, the Saints D made a huge stop.

4TH DOWN STOP 🛑

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— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) November 8, 2026

Then, in overtime with the Browns electing to go for the win and not the tie, the Saints pass rush put the pressure on Cleveland quarterback Shedeur Sanders to force an errant throw on a two-point conversion.

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— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) November 8, 2026

The Saints sacked Sanders five times in the game and pressured him on most of his throws. There were a couple of big plays they gave up, but they held the Browns to under 100-yards rushing as a team, a gigantic step for this Saints D.

Audric Estimé

After bouncing around among three different teams this season alone, Audric Estimé made his second go-round with the Saints the one that counts.

The Saints released their leading rusher this year, Kendre Miller, one day before playing the Browns, deciding to utilize a pair of journeymen running backs instead: Zamir White and Estimé. White had a slight hand in making a difference in this one, but it was all Estimé in this one.

Audric Estime go-ahead TD! (He was a Brown earlier this week)

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— NFL (@NFL) November 8, 2026

The third-year back out of Notre Dame ran the ball 15-times for 72-yards and his second touchdown as a Saint. His first came last December on a 32-yard jaunt against the Titans.

Saints Offensive Front - Part 1

Today, the Saints were able to claim 396-yards as an offense, 160 of that on the ground. Just two weeks ago, this same Saints offense claimed 18-yards rushing. That's almost nine times more yardage running the ball game-to-game.

There were no huge runs by those mentioned earlier or veteran Alvin Kamara, but there were large enough holes for the Saints running backs to find creases, which led to that 160-yards rushing.

Biggest Losers

Turnovers

The New Orleans offense gave up two turnovers, both by rookie wide receivers. That's fifteen turnovers on the year, nine of those fumbles which leads the NFL, surpassing, of all teams, the Cleveland Browns this weekend.

Meanwhile, the Saints defense, for the second week running, did not force one after taking the ball away from the New York Giants 4-times. New Orleans has forced nine total turnovers this season.

Saints Offensive Front - Part 2

As well as the O-line blocked at times for the run game, it left a lot to be desired in the passing side of things. Quarterback Tyler Shough was sacked five times and was hit or hurried seven additional times. We have said this so many times, we're starting to sound like a broken record, but if the line doesn't do a better job of protecting their QB, he's going to break more than a couple of fingers on his left hand.

Saints Uniforms

Call us purists, but the Saints colors are black and gold, not black and whatever this color is. We will say that unlike others, we like the black helmets with the gold spots in place of a stripe.

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