New Orleans 30 @ Minnesota 20 Final - NBC

Scoring Plays:
1Q - NO - Drew Brees to Alvin Kamara 3 yd TD pass (PAT Good) 7-0 NO
1Q - MIN - Kirk Cousins to Stefon Diggs 1 yd TD pass (PAT Good) 7-7
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2Q - MIN - Latavius Murray 1 yd TD rush (PAT No Good) 13-7 MIN
2Q - NO - Wil Lutz 52 yd FG GOOD 13-10 MIN
2Q - NO - Alvin Kamara 1 yd TD rush (PAT Good) 17-13 NO
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3Q - NO - Wil Lutz 42 yd FG GOOD 20-13 NO
3Q - NO - PJ Williams 45 yd INT return for TD (PAT Good) 27-13 NO
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4Q - NO - Wil Lutz 42 yd FG GOOD 30-13 NO
4Q - MIN - Kirk Cousins to Adam Thielen 1 yd TD pass (PAT Good) 30-20 NO

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Welcome to week 8 of the NFL season and Game Thread #7 of 2018!!

Cue up Carrie Underwood & the trumpets from John Williams... we're waiting all day for Sunday night



The Saints are on Sunday Night Football for the first time this season in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game rematch from a season ago and all we've been hearing is...



meawhile... we're sitting here like...



so we come tonight to get a bit of retribution and try to keep pace with the Rams for the top of the NFC and stay ahead of the rest of the NFC South

On the injury front, the Saints injury report is actually fairly thin with only Mitchell Loewen officially listed as OUT for tonight's game, meanwhile that's not the case for the Vikings who will be missing a number of key players - inc. RB Dalvin Cook & S Andrew Sendejo - while CB Xavier Rhodes is expected to return to the field after missing the last few games (Rhodes will NOT return tonight - he's on the inactive list).

Hopefully the Saints D will be bolstered by the debut of the recently added DB Eli Apple, who the Saints got in a trade with the Giants

LET'S BEAT THESE NORSE BASTARDS AND MOVE TO 6-1!!! WHO DAT!!!

Uniforms: The Saints will be in the amazingly awesome color rush uniforms for the 2nd time this season



Tonight's Officials: Big news came out earlier this week in that the NFL actually FIRED an official in-season for the first time in the Super Bowl era, truly strange times to be a NFL official

Referee: #4 Craig Wrolstad


Umpire: #121 Paul King (Nicholls St. alum)
Down Judge: #6 Jerod Phillips
Line Judge: #101 Carl Johnson (Nicholls St. alum)
Field Judge: #21 Jeff Lamberth
Side Judge: #29 Adrian Hill
Back Judge: #93 Scott Helverson
Replay Official: Larry Nemmers
Replay Assistant: Kevin Stine

Inactive Lists:
NO-
T Jermon Bushrod
C Will Clapp
CB Ken Crawley
DB J.T. Gray
G/T Chaz Green
DE Trey Hendrickson
DL Mitch Loewen

MIN-
QB Kyle Sloter
CB Xavier Rhodes
RB Dalvin Cook
S Andrew Sendejo
LB Anthony Barr
OT Riley Reiff
OG Tom Compton