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Saints Giving It Up

Saints defense is allowing yards at a record pace.

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Saints Giving It Up

POSTED: Sunday, November 4, 2012, 12:00 AM
Bob Vetrone Jr.

No team in NFL history has allowed more yards through seven games than the New Orleans Saints have this season. They held that distinction after six games and — if the Eagles can gain 235 or more yards Monday night — are a pretty safe bet to still hold it through eight games.

Here are the NFL teams that held that distinction through each of the first seven games of a season, and where the 2012 Saints ranked against each:

 Through  Year     Team  Yards   Saints   Rank
 1 Game  1951  New York Yanks    722    459  t-72nd 
 2 Games    1951  New York Yanks  1029    922  t-23rd
 3 Games  1951  New York Yanks  1481  1432    5th
 4 Games  2011  New England Patriots    1910  1853    5th
 5 Games  1950  Baltimore Colts  2431  2280    2nd
 6 Games  2012  New Orleans Saints  2793  2793    1st
 7 Games  2012  New Orleans Saints  3323  3323    1st
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:14 PM, 11/04/2012
    Eagles will probably end up racking up 400 yards but still manage to only score 20 points.
    — Only in Philly...
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:01 AM, 11/05/2012
    Only in Philly...probably only 17.
    — 5thstrretpast


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Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

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