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Monday night's Texans-Saints meeting ended with two incredible late outings and a spectacular 58-yard goal to allow the home team to pass the score by 30 to 28. Whatever the Saints feel and of their supporters, it is positive to note that they managed to erase a fairly large arbitration error in the first period which almost certainly cost the Saints a good chance. The world is waiting for the Saints' supporters to be silent about the arbitration – a slight defeat on Monday night would have revived their anger for another century.

The call came just before halftime, after Michael Thomas managed a 17-yard pass near midfield over the third and 17th Saints, at the last minute of the second quarter. It was an important training, as evidenced by the practices of the first half of the first game of the season: the Texans had thrown the stone to the Saints during two promises in the first half and had a record of 14 to 3 on the display board. A successful practice here could make it a game to a score before halftime.

The game gave the Saints a fourth and a goal, but the referees stopped the action to examine the ball's blob, which stopped the game clock at 26 seconds. After the review, which gave the Saints a first try, referee John Hussey announced for the first time that the game clock, posting 26 seconds, was correct. Moments later, after having spoken to the other officials, Hussey announced that as a general rule, since the previous game ended with the stopwatch still running, there would be a mandatory flow of 10 seconds to report the revision. The saints and their fans were not happy.

The runoff is good – the Saints were given the opportunity to cancel using their last wait, but they refused – but Hussey seemed to be wrong anyway. The problem is that the piece under study does not have end at the end of 26 seconds. Michael Thomas was eliminated with 41 seconds on the clock and the Saints actually broke the ball for their next game at the 26-second mark, before the rehearsal official interrupted the game to review the position of the decision. Thomas. FOX rules analyst Mike Pereira, NBC rules analyst Terry McAulay and ESPN rules analyst John Parry finally agreed that the second round should come from the end of the current game. revision, and not beginning from the next piece.

The Saints did not take advantage of the 16 seconds remaining after the sequence and arranged for a 56-yard try, missed. This very close to mattered. The Saints came back to take a lead in the second half, but Deshaun Watson brought the Texans to the field for a decisive touchdown of Kenny Stills, to give Houston a run-up. As electrifying as it was, honest people hoping to put an end to all this madness referee t-shirts in New Orleans began to shoot, at that moment, their necklaces, knowing that the fans of Saints would have a another extremely legitimate grievance to the official.

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The Saints ended up winning, while Drew Brees led an efficient 35-yard run over the last 37 seconds of the game, putting kicker Wil Lutz on a 58-yard score, which he crushed. I want to believe that the euphoria of a thrilling victory will remove the bitterness of the Saints' supporters once and for all, but realistically, the unofficial Monday night celebration will only encourage them. Alas.

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