Saints stay unbeaten with 38-17 win over Patriots Play Video

By Staff and Associated Press reports

Posted: Dec 1, 2009 6:31 AM
Updated: Dec 1, 2009 12:20 PM

   NEW ORLEANS -- Quarterback Drew Brees threw for 371 yards and five touchdown passes and the New Orleans Saints beat the New England Patriots, 38-17, in a dominant performance on Monday Night Football. 

The Saints joined the Indianapolis Colts at 11-0, the first time two NFL teams have opened with that many wins in the same season. 

 The Saints' victory in a rocking Louisiana Superdome left little doubt about New Orleans' credentials to match the Patriots' 16-0 regular-season mark in 2007.  New England is the only team to go undefeated in a 16-game NFL regular season.

  Brees threw touchdown passes to five different players: Pierre Thomas, Devery Henderson, Robert Meachem, Darnell Dinkins and Marques Colston.  It was the second time the Patriots (7-4) lost to an unbeaten team on the road in three weeks.

 The Saints' victory was so dominating that the Patriots pulled quarterback Tom Brady two-thirds of the way through the fourth quarter, when the game was clearly out of hand.

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