New Orleans Saints (0-4) vender i uge 5 hjem til Caesars Superdome efter to udekampe i træk, når de søndag tager imod New York Giants (1-3). For Saints bliver det ikke bare en mulighed for at jagte sæsonens første sejr, men også for at udligne den historiske indbyrdes statistik. Giants fører lige nu serien 17-16, men Saints har haft overtaget i nyere tid med sejre i både 2023 og 2024 – samt syv af de seneste ti opgør.
Davis og Kamara – nøglerne til succes
To af Saints’ mest pålidelige profiler, linebacker Demario Davis og running back Alvin Kamara, har haft afgørende roller i kampene mod Giants de seneste år.
Davis har i sine fire møder med New York leveret 35 tacklinger, tre sacks, en interception og to pass breakups. Han blev kåret til NFC Defensive Player of the Week i 2018 efter en dominerende præstation, og han gentog succesen med en kampafgørende interception i sidste års 14-11 sejr på MetLife Stadium.
Kamara har på sin side været en konstant trussel både på jorden og i luften. I fire møder står han noteret for 364 yards og tre touchdowns på løb samt yderligere 126 yards på 15 catches. Særligt kampen i 2018 skiller sig ud, hvor han stod for hele 181 scrimmage yards og tre touchdowns. I tre af de fire møder har han rundet over 100 total yards.
Giants med rookie på vej frem
New York Giants kommer til opgøret med selvtillid efter en 21-18 sejr over Los Angeles Chargers i sidste uge. Her fik rookie-quarterback Jaxson Dart sin første NFL-start og ledte holdet til en sejr på hjemmebane. Hans udvikling og evne til at håndtere presset i Superdome bliver et centralt tema i søndagens kamp.
Hvad er på spil?
For Saints handler det om at få sæsonen på skinner og omsætte det historiske overtag mod Giants til en vigtig første sejr i 2025. Med lederskabet fra Davis og Kamara i front og et tændt hjemmepublikum i ryggen, er alt lagt op til en intens kamp i New Orleans.
Who Dat og Geaux Saints!
KAMPFAKTA MOD New York Giants
New York Giants @ New Orleans Saints
DATO 5. oktober 2025
KAMPSTART 19:00
STADION Caesars Superdome
DOMMER Alan Eck
SE KAMPEN VIA NFL Gamepass
US KOMENTATORER (CBS) Andrew Catalon, Charles Davis and Jason McCourty og AJ Ross
NFC SOUTH KAMPE Dolphins @ Panthers, Buccaneers @ Seahawks, Falcons (BYE)
ALL TIME Giants fører serien 17-16.
STREAKS Saints har vundet 2 af de sidste 3 kampe mod Giants.
SIDSTE KAMP Saints vandt 14-11 på udebane den 8. december 2024
Points for/imod: 25,1 (11) / 25,7 (26t)
Angreb: 312,9 yards (21)
Forsvar: 394,9 yards (32)
Take/Give: +2 (10t)
Jaxson Dart: 111 yards
Cam Skattebo: 181 yards
Wan’Dale Robinson: 237 yards
Paulson Adebo: 26 tackles
Brian Burns: 5 sacks
Andru Phillips: 2 INTs
Points for/imod: 25,1 (11) / 25,7 (26t)
Angreb: 312,9 yards (21)
Forsvar: 394,9 yards (32)
Take/Give: +2 (10t)
Spencer Rattler: 765 yards
Alvin Kamara: 256 yards
Juwan Johnson: 204 yards
Pete Werner: 22 tackles
Carl Granderson: 4,5 sacks
Jonas Sanker: 1 INTs
SAINTS PICKS 2025
Vær med i årets konkurrence. Det er i kommentarerne herunder du deltager i konkurrencen. Du skal kommentere med følgende fire udsagn: hvem bliver vinderen af kampen? hvor mange point scorer Saints? hvilken spiller scorer Saints første point? og hvilken spiller der laver flest taklinger for Saints?
Et bud kan se således ud:
SAINTS, 20-29 point, Alvin Kamara, Pete Werner
Deltag med en kommentar herunder og få muligheden for at vinde Saints Picks 2025!
Skal vi have noget at glæde os over i denne sæson, skal vi starte med at vinde denne kamp
SAINTS
30-39
Rashid Shaheed
Jonas Sanker
Jeg tror på det i denne uge, men Giants defensive line gør liiiidt usikker. Men det burde jo være styrke mod styrke, når de møder Saints offensive linje.
Saints, 20-29, Spencer Rattler, Kool-Aid McKinstry
Who Dat!
En must win kamp i denne sæson. Med Malik Nabers skade øger det også chancerne for første sejr i år.
Saints – 20-29 – Kamara – Sanker.
Saints – 20-29 – Blake Grupe – DeMario Davis
Saints
20-29
Alvin Kamara
DeMario Davis
En must win kamp i denne sæson. Med Malik Nabers ude burde det være muligt at sætte flere point på tavlen end Giants.
Saints – 20-29 – Kamara – Sanker. WHO DAT!
En must win kamp i denne sæson. Med Malik Nabers skade øger det også chancerne for første sejr i år.
Saints – 20-29 – Kamara – Sanker.
En must win kamp i denne sæson. Med Malik Nabers skade øger det også chancerne for første sejr i år.
Saints – 20-29 – Kamara – Sanker.
En must win kamp i denne sæson. Med Malik Nabers skade øger det også chancerne for første sejr i år.
Saints – 20-29 – Kamara – Sanker.
Saints, 20-29, Kamara, Werner
Yey! Sejr!!! Jeg kunne godt lide Sanker, McKinstry, Rattler og Shaheed…. m.fl
Who Dat!
MVP mod Giants
Da Giants scorede deres 2 TD i starten af 2. quarter frygtede jeg det værste, men så trådte især de unge spillere i vores forsvar i karakter. Giants fik ikke flere point.
Vi bliver nok ikke alle enige om Spencer Rattler. Jeg mener han har kvalitet til at holde os inde i en kamp, men mangler fortsat at blive overbevist om, at han kan vinde kampe for os. 21/31 for 225 yards og en TD, samt 21 løbe yards er absolut tilfredsstillende og hans kast til Shahid var eminent. Der var for mange “sikrer” kast og vi skal glæde os over en QB, som ikke mister bolden.
Kendre Miller overgik Kamara med flest løbeyards, men så har Alvin jo også 28 yards i luften. 10 løb for 41 yards blev Kendre Millers slutresultat, plus et godt kickreturn og en greben bold for 8 yards. Alvin løb 27 yards på 8 forsøg og et snit på 3,4. Efter Bills kampen havde jeg nok sat næsen op efter lidt mere fra vores RB. Taysom Hill var tilbage og løb 6 gange, men med nogle tabte yards, blev hans udbytte kun -1 yard. Han kastede i øvrigt også en gang for 19 yards. Altid lidt svært at sætte Taysom i en bokse, men vi fik nok mest set ham som supplement til vores løb i denne kamp.
RASHID SHAHEED blev med sin 87 yards TD også bedste receiver ned 114 yards i luften. Chris Olave havde 59 yards på 7 bolde, Juwan kun 17 yards og kun 2 grebne bolde. DeVaughn Vele fik også grebet to bolde for 13 yards. Vi har så mange gode spillere, at det føles trist, at Rattler kun en gang i kampen går rigtig dybt. Er det Kellen Moore som kalder de sikrer kast, eller er vi bare ikke kommet til det sider i “spillebogen”?
Vores O-LINE var betydeligt bedre end de fire første kampe. Vores pass-protection var afgørende for, at Rattler ikke blev sacket, men vi mangler nok lidt på rush-protection. Cesar Ruiz var ikke savnet i dag, men jeg vil nu gerne se den gode udgave af Ruiz tilbage på vores O-line. Giants er muligvis ikke NFLs bedste hold, men deres Pass-rush er blandt eliten.
Det tog lidt tid, men så trådte vores Defense i karakter. Fra 13.02 i 2. quarter kom Giants ikke til fadet. Vores front er begyndt at sætte stopper for Giants (Skattebo & Bellinger) løb. De to fik kun 97 yards tilsammen. Bryan Bresee fik en vigtig TLF og gode gamle Cameron Jordan 3 tacklinger. Granderson var lidt usynlig i dag men fik 6 tacklinger, Rumph 5 tacklinger, Shepherd 4 og Bullard 2. Vores D-line var tydeligt på banen i slutningen af kampen.
Vores midtbane med DeMario og Werner er fortsat et solidt værn mod løb. Pete fik 11 tacklinger, men kæmper fortsat lidt med sit opdækningsspil på kast, DeMario fik 10 tacklinger og naturligvis den vigtige “strip the ball”. Når disse to spiller så solidt er det svært for Stalbird og Stutsman, men jeg føler vi har gode unge afløsere klar til at tag over, når det bliver nødvendigt.
Vores bageste forsvarlinje var dog historien mod Giant. Vores normale ankermand Justin Reid blev skadet og JORDAN HOWDEN blev sat på banen. Howden sluttede med 4 tacklinger og en TD. Var hans vigtigste indslag hans flotte TD-løb eller det faktum at vi ikke savnede Reid på banen? Hans kollega på safety JONAS SANKER er allerede nu en fast bestanddel af vores hold og med 7 tacklinger og opsamlingen, viste han endnu engang Saints fremtid. Terrell Burgess skal naturligvis også nævnes, da han havde en kampafgørende deflection på et uhyre kritisk tidspunkt i kampe.
Den største glæde mod Giants var dog vores CB-gruppe. KOOL-AID MCKINSTRY havde 4 tackling og 2 Interceptions. Han fremstod klart som CB1 og trådte ud af Marshons skygge. Giants forsøgte bevist at kaste mod hans opdækning, men han fik lukket solidt af. Det er vel nok hans bedste kamp i Saints trøjen. Alontae Taylor med 8 tacklinger fik vist sit værd både når han dækkede CB og især når han blev sluppet løs i Star-positionen. Quincy Riley fik kun 1 tackling i dag, men vokser i styrke og altid klar når han skal overtag pladsen som CB2.
Lidt malurt i bægret er at Blake Grupe missede 2 FG forsøg og det ene på et kritisk tidspunkt hvor det kostede os at tag føringen. Han ramte på 4 af 6 forsøg og er nu muligvis den kicker i NFL, der har sparket forbi mest. Er det tid for Charlie? Vores Special Team i øvrigt er ved at finde formen og Danny Stutsman gør det godt.
Mine kandidater til MVP er denne gang primært at finde i bageste kæde:
KOOL-AID MCKINSTRY
JORDAN HOWDEN
RASHID SHAHEED
JONAS SANKER
Set fra den anden side:
Entering Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints, there was an air of optimism around the New York Giants. A feeling that maybe, just maybe, things were starting to FINALLY turn toward brighter days.
The Giants defeated the previously unbeaten Los Angeles Chargers in Week 4. They got a winning effort from Jaxson Dart, a rookie first-round pick who is the next great hope to become the franchise quarterback they have been in need of. The pass rush was dominant against the Chargers. Cam Skattebo looked like the kind of back with attitude the Giants have not seen since the heyday of Brandon Jacobs.
The Giants had hope. Hope that they could end the day on a winning streak for the first time in two years. Hope that a brighter day had arrived.
The Giants took all that hope, all those good vibes and flushed them on Sunday in an awful 26-14 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
The Giants fumbled some of that optimism away. They threw some of it away. They took whatever was left of it after the fumbles and interceptions and torched it with penalties, drops and other assorted mistakes.
This was a game the Giants should have won. Clearly. They had a 14-3 lead and it looked like the good times were rolling. Then, they took the victory they had in hand, put it in a nice box, wrapped it with some pretty paper, put a bow on it, walked it across the field and gifted it to a previously winless Saints team.
They also pretty much wrecked any chance their season had of not resembling something like the 3-14 disaster that nearly got head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen fired a year ago.
The Giants turned the ball over on five straight possessions. Per the CBS broadcast, they are the first team to accomplish that ignominious feat since the Jets did it NINE years ago. They had eight penalties for 95 yards. They had drops. They had missed opportunities.
“We had a lot of opportunities where we were moving the ball down the field and we would hurt ourselves,” Dart said. “We just gave the game away with all the turnovers.
“The whole game we moved the ball, we had turnovers. There weren’t many times where we got
stopped, we were really good in the open field, we just turned the ball over.”
The Saints made one nice play, an 87-yard touchdown pass from Spencer Rattler to Rashid Shaheed. For the most part, the Giants gave them everything else.
Here is another way to look at it:
Tae Banks’ 25-yard pass interference penalty that negated a Jevon Holland interception in New Orleans’ territory led to three Saints points.
The 87-yard pass to Shaheed was preceded by Darius Slayton failing to catch a long pass from Dart that would have put the Giants in the red zone. That’s at least three points, maybe seven, off the board for the Giants.
On third-and-2 from the Giants’ 48-yard line after the Shaheed touchdown, offensive coordinator Mike Kafka dialed up a flea flicker that should have been a touchdown and a 21-13 Giants’ lead. Instead, Dart was both late and short with the throw. The Giants punted. By my count, the Giants could have been ahead by as much as 28-10 at this point. Instead, they were ahead 14-13.
After New Orleans placekicker Blake Grupe missed from 52 yards, Darius Slayton killed a Giants’ drive with a sloppy fumble inside the Saints’ 35-yard line. That turned into a Grupe field goal and a 16-14 New Orleans halftime lead.
“I don’t know how I lost the ball,” Slayton said. “Obviously, right there I have to be better, I have to do a better job at securing the ball.”
Dart, untouched, fumbled to wreck a promising Giants drive at the start of the third quarter. That led to three more New Orleans points.
Then came Skattebo’s back-breaking fumbled at the Saints’ 15-yard line, turning a potential Giants touchdown into an 86-yard Saints score and a 26-14 deficit the Malik Nabers-less Giants had little chance of overcoming.
“I handed them a touchdown,” Skattebo said. “Just got to be better, hold onto the ball. We preach to take care of the ball and that is all I got to do, that’s my job.”
Skattebo apologized via social media. A nice touch, maybe, but it doesn’t change anything.
Two Dart interceptions followed as the Giants desperately tried to come back with no Nabers, no Tyrone Tracy, and with Slayton sidelined by a late-game hamstring injury.
Turnovers on five straight possessions is “hard to do,” admitted Giants head coach Brian Daboll.
No, you’re not.
It’s one thing to lose games to teams that are better than you, or that outplay you. The Saints are not better than the Giants. The Giants beat the Giants on Sunday. The Giants basically beat themselves Week 2 against the Dallas Cowboys.
If you thought the victory over Los Angeles showed that maybe the Giants were finally figuring out how not to beat themselves, think again. They really don’t know how to get out of their own way.
Question is, when will the Giants win again? When will they even have an opportunity?
The Giants face the 4-1 Philadelphia Eagles twice in the next three weeks. They face the 3-2 Denver Broncos, who just handed the Eagles their first loss. They face the 4-1 San Francisco 49ers. Nabers isn’t coming to rescue them. Slayton might be out. Points will be difficult to produce. The Giants could easily be 1-8 when they travel to Chicago to face the Bears in Week 10.
Sunday’s up-and-down start doesn’t mean Dart is a bust. Just like the Week 4 start didn’t mean it was obvious Dart would be the Giants’ answer at quarterback for the next 10 years.
Maybe Dart will be the guy who finally helps the Giants get back to respectability. Sunday was a reminder, though, that the rookie quarterback can’t fix all the problems that consistently plague the Giants.