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Saints beat Panthers to take NFC South lead
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THE New Orleans Saints cracked open a scrappy game late in the first half to forge to a 28-10 win over the Carolina Panthers on Thursday, wrestling top spot in the NFC South from their opponents in the process.
Running back Mark Ingram claimed two touchdowns and 100 yards in the win for New Orleans while quarterback Drew Brees added 297 yards passing and a TD. He also ran for a score in Charlotte, North Carolina.
With both sides failing to fire offensively for the opening 26 minutes, two Saints TDs in the last three minutes of the first half produced the gap needed to secure the win.
New Orleans improved to 4-4 on the season, snapping a seven-game road losing streak, to push ahead of the 3-5-1 Panthers.
After the Panthers had failed to get points out of two forced turnovers and the Saints had also squandered a chance after a Cam Newton interception the stalemate was broken as Junior Galette sacked Newton near his own endzone that allowed the Saints to set up Ingram for a three-yard TD run.
With time running out in the first half Brees marched the Saints 85 yards, capped off by a Jimmy Graham one-yard reception TD with three seconds left in the first half for a 14-0 lead.
“The biggest thing was early adversity and just overcoming that and knowing we had to battle back and find a way to get points,” Brees said. “The defense came up with a big turnover for us to get the first seven in and the two-minute drive at the end of the half was huge from a momentum standpoint and then we just preached finish.”
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