Saints rip off 34 unanswered points to beat Giants 34-27 at MetLife Stadium

Thirty-four straight points. New Orleans absorbed a 10-0 start by the Giants at MetLife Stadium and answered with 34 unanswered, turning a ten-point deficit into a 34-10 lead before surviving a late surge to take it 34-27.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. opened the scoring in the first quarter, his touchdown and the extra point putting New York in front 7-0. Dominic Zvada's second-quarter field goal made it 10-0, and the Giants looked firmly in control. Daniel Carlson's field goal got the Saints moving at 10-3, and Bryce Lance's touchdown, completed by the extra point, sent the sides into the break level at 10-10.

The third quarter decided everything. Alvin Kamara's touchdown put New Orleans ahead, Tyler Shough added another, and Carlson's second field goal of the day capped a 17-point quarter without a Giants reply — 10-27 after three. Chris Olave's touchdown in the fourth stretched the lead to 34-10 and completed the run. New York finally stirred: Tracy Jr.'s second touchdown, an Isaiah Likely two-point conversion, a Likely touchdown and Zvada's late field goal trimmed it to 27-34.

New Orleans won this with breadth, not luck. Five different Saints got on the scoresheet — Carlson twice, Lance, Kamara, Shough and Olave — and Kamara's score was the one that flipped the game, New Orleans' first lead of the afternoon. The 17-0 third quarter left the Giants chasing a hole no single quarter could repair.

The strangest number of the day: New York scored the final 17 points of the game and still lost by seven. Forty-one of the afternoon's 61 points came after halftime. The comeback was real. The hole was deeper.