What a lying sack of crap this guy is.
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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...rter-td-pass-you-could-still-lose-when-up-31/
The Saints were beating the Eagles 38-7 in the fourth quarter when they went for it on fourth down and threw a 37-yard touchdown pass. But New Orleans coach
Asshole Face says he wasn’t running up the score.
Payton said he just called the play that made the most sense on fourth-and-6 with 13:15 left in the game and a 31-point lead.
“It was gonna be a long field goal, longer than we wanted, with a potential block. We still weren’t at that point in the game. You know, you just have to play in one game where you’re
up 31 in the fourth quarter and you lose,” Payton said, via ESPN.
For the record, no team in NFL history has ever been up 31 in the fourth quarter and lost. Only once in NFL history has a team lost a game after it led by more than 28 points, and that was the January 3, 1993 playoff game in which the Buffalo Bills came back from a 32-point deficit to beat the Houston Oilers, 41-38. But that comeback wasn’t in the fourth quarter. In that game, the Bills’ scoring surge came in the third quarter, and by the start of the fourth quarter it was a four-point game.