FOXBORO — By virtually each metric, the Saints are worse soccer group than the Payments.
Win-loss document, factors allowed, factors scored, yards, you title it.
Simply don’t inform the Patriots.
A number of veteran gamers, together with Stefon Diggs, pressured Wednesday they can’t let up after their massive win at Buffalo final Sunday. Diggs went so far as to say this weekend’s recreation at New Orleans may be more durable than going through the Payments.
“They’re very skillful up entrance, and within the (secondary), to be trustworthy, (they) may be a much bigger check than final week,” Diggs mentioned within the locker room. “Simply so far as having success and with the ability to replicate that course of, do it over again; work equally onerous (with) consideration to element and focus. As a result of this opponent, I do know their document doesn’t say it, however that’s a superb soccer group.
Diggs detailed the method he mentioned the Patriots should take to Sunday’s recreation, and virtually assured New Orleans (1-4) could attempt to shock them.
“Stepping into poised, ready and understanding that there’s going to be some adversity. There’s going to be a curveball. One-hundred %,” he mentioned. “Each group does it. It doesn’t matter who you play, they’re going to point out you one thing totally different they won’t have proven on movie. So simply moving into with that mindset of being poised and having an actual plan.”
Defensively, the Patriots game-planned the Payments completely, holding Josh Allen and Co. 10 factors under their season common. Defensive sort out Khyris Tonga factored closely into that plan, because the nostril sort out in a brand new 3-4 entrance the teaching workers unveiled that Sunday. The shift to heavier personnel helped the Pats management Buffalo’s league-leading run recreation and restrict the Payments to simply three factors at halftime.
Not that Tonga remains to be celebrating. Echoing Diggs, the 29-year-old veteran mentioned the Patriots have to maneuver on.
“That’s the factor in regards to the league: you’ve received to show it each single week. So, that’s the mentality,” Tonga mentioned. “Like, it was a superb win. However that was final week’s win. It’s a complete new week, a complete new monster.”
