By DJ Harding
The New England Patriots traveled back home after having their worst loss in teh Bill Belichick era with a 38-3 loss. The Patriots saw bad only go to worse as they lost to the New Orleans Saints 34-0.
This is the first time the Patriots franchise has had back to back 30 point losses since 1970. This is also New England’s first time starting 1-4 since 2000. The Patriots also are now 0-3 at home this season.
The Saints opened up the scoring with a Tyrann Mathieu interception which he returned 27 yards for a touchdown. Mac Jones threw two interceptions for the second straight week and finished the game with 110 passing yards.
New Orleans then had two offensive touchdown drives in the second quarter to bring the lead to 21-0. First an eighth play 62 yard drive was finished off with an Alvin Kamara two yard rushing touchdown. Then a five play 52 yard drive was capped off by a Chris Olave receiving touchdown.
The Third quarter was the lowest scoring quarter for the Saints as a Blake Groupe field goal was the only points during the quarter giving New Orleans a 24-0 lead after three quarters.
In the Final quarter Derek Carr threw his second and final touchdown of the game to Foster Moreau before another Blake Groupe field goal brought the final score to 34-0.
Patriots Coach Bill Belichick said postgame “Simply, we need to do better than that, so we are going to start over and get onto a better track then we are on right now.” Belichick has now in back to back weeks seen his worst two losses in his coaching career as he sits one win shy of 300 career wins.
Defensive End Deatrich Wise also spoke postgame and said “we have to keep moving forward.”
For New England moving forward is traveling to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders on Sunday October 15 with kickoff scheduled for 4:25 PM EST.