The NFL scheduled the Saints to host the Falcons on Monday night to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Superdome\u2019s reopening after Hurricane Katrina. It was a big night in New Orleans, and the Saints did not match the fans\u2019 energy.<\/p>\n
Saints head coach Kellen Moore said after the 45-24 loss that the team came out flat despite the excitement of the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally disappointing game for us,\u201d Moore said. \u201cThe dome was an incredible night, incredible energy. I did a poor job preparing our football team. Didn\u2019t coach well enough, didn\u2019t play well enough. It wasn\u2019t good enough. We\u2019re at where we\u2019re at, a 1-3 football team with some good moments but not enough consistent football to be where we ultimately want to be. We\u2019ve got a lot of work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moore said he addressed the historical significance of the game with his team and thought they bought into this being a particularly big game. But when it was time to put it all together, they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talked about it at the beginning of the week, the guys were fired up,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI thought there was good energy, we just didn\u2019t execute well enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Saints saw the nationally televised, much-discussed game as a big opportunity to show what kind of team they are, and they didn\u2019t show much.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are big-time opportunities,\u201d Moore said. \u201cIt\u2019s just disappointing for us and I know there\u2019s frustration for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL scheduled the Saints to host the Falcons on Monday night to commemorate the 20th anniversary of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-872745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}