Kellen Moore recaps win vs. Giants | Saints-Giants Postgame | 2025 NFL Week 5

Kellen Moore recaps win vs. Giants | Saints-Giants Postgame | 2025 NFL Week 5

Awesome effort. The turnovers obviously was a huge part of this game. Uh five to zero and u you know a lot of lot of positives coming out of this thing. How did your first win feel uh when you were celebrating in the locker room with the team after? Yeah, it’s awesome. I mean this is a special group. They’re uh again their resiliency to hang in there through through some challenging times the first month. Uh by no means is it the perfect script uh to start start a journey together as a group, but uh you I thought our guys just battled an entire game and it was really fun to see those guys. the first person off the chest. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously, you know, you got to get in the win column first and then then obviously you can carry momentum hopefully moving forward and we can feel it. We know what it looks like. We know what it feels like. And so now we got to keep keep getting better. Uh this is what an NFL season’s about. You got to keep getting better and uh more opportunities will come ahead of us. How would you describe what the mood was like in the locker room necessarily have? Yeah. Yeah. It’s an awesome group. We have an awesome group. Uh I love the energy. I love the uh the joy that these guys bring each and every day. And certainly uh you know for a lot of our guys you know it’s not just obviously me it’s you know a lot of this group is coming together for the first time for Spence uh you know for him battling through a lot of things through through the last year and a half for him and so uh I was fired up for him as well. Colin, could you talk a little bit more about his defense? You got four and three but the turnovers. Yeah, turnovers, you know, resilient group and you know the play style. You never know which play is going to make a difference in a game through all four quarters and I thought, you know, our defense just did an incredible job of attacking the football. To create five turnovers in a game is really, really special. What did you see in the one from Brian Brazier that Jordan had in return? What did you see about Brian was able to Yeah, just excellent. Excellent job attacking the football and uh I haven’t seen the perfect look yet, but I’ve seen one uh you know, he’s attacking the football and I think that’s the special thing. We’ve seen it throughout the NFL the last couple days, you know, through the NFL. Certainly Thursday night was an example again by the ners and so uh you know these defensive linemen they just keep attacking the football and eventually it’s going to pop out. If you don’t mind would you describe like your personal like what you’re thinking as you’re watching that play like that that emotional set. Yeah. I mean, they were they were they were grinding it out and so they were grinding out a long drive and so for our guys to make that play immediately, you know, soon as Jordan scooped up the ball, I think he immediately looked to what’s ahead of him and there was a whole lot of green grass and I thought our guys did an excellent job getting out in front of him, creating a couple blocks, you know, just securing it and so allowing him to go score. Uh, it was it was a gamechanging play. that you liked about what the defense did today because it wasn’t going all that easy early in the game before they were able to kind of Yeah, I thought just continue to attack the football and so I thought our defensive line continue to rush, continue to find plays. Jackson’s going to be a really good quarterback in this league. He’s a really good player. He’s going to buy time. Plays are going to last longer. It’s going to be challenging for our defensive line and they just got to keep going for it. What did you see from Cole Mckenry throughout the week leading up to what was a big game for him? Yeah. Um just so so happy for him. Uh you know he is a phenomenal player. We think the world of him. Um you know he’s played some hard downs the first few weeks of the season and for him to come up with two big time interceptions and made a bunch of plays throughout this entire game. Um you know I was so fired for Kool-Aid. He deserved everything that’s coming his way this week and so uh you know we’re really excited for him. Same question for Sanker especially with Justin going out early. Yeah. Yeah. Obviously Justin going out early challenging situation. uh Yonas hopped in there and obviously continued to play and then Jordan hopped in there and so uh you know big time big time job by both those guys from TAS being active today that just like kind of spark you guys at all. Yeah, it was fun. It it was awesome to see Taesm to see Foster out there competing playing. They’ve been through a lot. Um you know Taesm had some hard downs in the run game and I thought, you know, the the play action pass, the opportunity to throw it in that short yard situation was obviously awesome and thought he made an excellent decision, really good throw cuz the corner’s playing over the top and so uh you know it was a big time play. we needed that in that situation. Is he on like a snap count today? Yeah, he he’ll his role obviously will evolve. Um, you know, he he’s just coming back and so, uh, I thought, you know, he he did punt protection and then he did some, you know, obviously snaps in some offensive situations and, uh, as he goes, he’ll just keep growing growing that as we go. What was that decision made for the two of them to lead pregame champ? And did you know it was going to get that kind of We talked about earlier in the week. Yeah, once once we kind of felt like those two were trending and they were going to be ready to play, uh it was kind of a no-brainer. At what point was that decision made to have them available? Felt really good about it going into this week. We had to obviously see the evidence on the field. Uh both guys hopped into Wednesday’s practice, did an excellent job, really reconfirmed what everyone believed, and uh you know, again, credit to those guys, their work, credit to our training staff, all the the long journey that all all those guys have been on. Uh Ben, Sean, uh the rest of the crew in there. Uh, you know, we got some of the best in the business in there and and they work a lot. They, you know, what these guys have gone through through the whole offseason, through the summer, you know, being there at training camp and not being able to participate and all the things they’ve had to wait through, uh, for them to be ready when the opportunity presented itself. I think credit to all those guys. Were you sitting on Taesm for a while, the one that he threw to Joan Johnson? Were you sitting on that play for a while like you knew they had played him early that that was going to work later? Yeah, it was in our pocket based off the look and so we had a couple plays in those short yard situations designed for Taesm. Obviously based off their look, we felt like uh there’s a chance to be aggressive there. We’re probably going to go for it on fourth down anyway so we can be aggressive and you know see if it happens. For an offensive mind is that exciting guy Yeah, it’s it’s going to be a lot of fun as as we build this. Uh you know, Tason hopped in there. He had a handful of roles in this game. Obviously, some of them weren’t weren’t really uh uh utilized yet and so there’ll be more coming, more expanding and obviously his ability to just play all these different positions will be a huge advantage for us. The emotions on the long scoop and score whenever you call action earlier in the game that 87 yard touchdown, what were you thinking when you saw the ball in the air? Yeah, as soon as as soon as I saw the leverage by the safety in the corner, took uh Jawan, we knew he had an excellent opportunity. Uh beautiful route, beautiful throw by uh Spence. It was just uh it was a really cool play. We needed that, you know, an explosive play. We’ve been trying to chase these explosives. They haven’t happened. It’s been frustrating for the whole group, but they’re hanging in there and and when that opportunity present itself, those guys execute a really high level. You mentioned was that play set up by all that heavy you guys ran last week, you think? I mean, I think two bad rout Yeah, our numbers obviously have been really heavy run with those bigger packages and so certainly we had some pass game opportunities uh in the plan and that one was able to be successful and we were able to utilize it. You mentioned how it was a tough month for your guys and you talked about the first win, but did it make it, you know, that much sweeter? The fact that, you know, for a couple of those first few games, you guys were so close to getting that win and just weren’t able to get over the hump. The fact that you were able to do so now, do you think it made it, you know, a little sweeter? I think our guys have grown a lot through this through this journey. We know we’ve uh we’ve played some good football. We haven’t earned the the wins that we we certainly is the ultimate goal, but I think our guys have battled each and every week. You know, Seattle got away from us. That that was the one that was frustrating. The other ones were right in it. We’re close. We got to make a couple more plays. We gota find find the those margins to close a little bit more. And I felt like our guys went out there and played really well this week. Got matched up against Theo Johnson on a couple of like important plays. One one uh that worked out um really well at the end. Was there any design to that or those were just circumstance? Yeah, there’s some circumstance. Yeah, there’s some circumstance there based off uh the call. You know, sometimes you’re you’re matched up against one whoever the number one receiver is based off the presentation and look and so uh Kool-Aid responded really well in a bunch of these situations. Do you like the way though that early in the game obviously Johnson got the the the size match up but then Koolaid handled the same. Yeah. Yeah. Again, yeah, he he responded really well. I thought Kool-Aid made a bunch of plays as that game progressed. I thought our guys responded really well. There’s times you’re going to have advantageous situations. There’s times you’re going to have hard downs and hard situations. Our guys understand that and our guys ability to respond to that is uh critical. Remember what’s going through your head when you see the fleet flicker developing and then what did you think of Burgess’s? Yeah, obviously as soon as you see it, you know, oh man, uh here we go. And uh I mean, awesome, awesome play, Burgess. uh the ability to recognize it, the ability not to panic in that situation cuz so many times those there’s clips all over where guys just go and run and run into the guy and you know, okay, we stop the play but it’s a 50-yard gain in that situation for him just to still compete, have some uh some patience to himself as far as some some calmness I thought was a big time play. It was a critical play for us. Spencer has been votable being 0 and 10 as a starter so far. What does it mean to you to be able to help him guide his first victory? I thought he did a lot of good. Uh I’m really happy for Spence. Um he’s battled through a lot, you know, through through certainly a year and a half of football, you know, here. And so, uh thought he’s he’s played a lot of good football this year with us. You know, he’s competed each and every week. We’ve been really close. We haven’t gotten it done collectively. For him to get this one, you know, he’s earned it. He’s earned it. And I thought he he had a huge impact on this game in a positive way. How did you guys the Carl Branderson sack that was called? Yeah. I saw a sack. I saw a sack. What’s your happy? Yeah. Yeah. It’s disappointing just cuz uh obviously you’re trying to educate your players and when you don’t feel like as a coach you have an answer to help educate your players on how to play the game. Uh that’s frustrating because uh obviously you coach to give those guys the best chance to be successful and um obviously it’s going to be a great opportunity for us to learn ultimately whatever the uh opinion of that play is because uh it’s a frustrating play when uh you do so much good and um you know that that’s a frustrating one as a coach. You feel like you’re helpless in that situation. How did you how does that process go? like do do they follow up with you at some point and say this is why something called you can use that to teach. Yeah, potentially. Yeah, we’ll we’ll see if we’ll see if there is uh sometimes, you know, sometimes you can get an educational point out of it, sometimes you don’t. And so, um yeah, we’ll see if our league, you know, provides something for really our whole league to figure that out. When you guys were down 14 to three and you scored 23 unanswered to end the game, what impressed you the most about your team’s response from that moment on? I know a lot of turnovers mixed in there, but but what uh yeah, I thought the turnovers are huge and I think our ability to respond and get some points out of the turnovers, I thought, you know, obviously had some value. The way we ended the second quarter, I thought was nice. Uh we’d missed our opportunity. Defense makes a play, we get an another opportunity at least get some points there and take the lead before half. I thought that was a critical moment for us to, you know, we we haven’t led led a game this year and so to go in the halftime finally with a lead feeling the confidence and then for our guys to come out and play really good football in the second half, um, you thought spoke to our guys’ resiliency. Does anything stand out about the adjustments Brandon Staley made? Obviously, you guys had a lot more success against our offense in the second half. Anything you could say that he did that helped? Yeah, I thought our guys uh, you know, just the communication and just the subtle adjustments throughout a game I think are really, really critical and that’s what makes Brandon special. his ability to make those adjustments uh in the time, in the moment, make a different call, make an adjustment. I thought our guys communicated a really high level on defense. Um, you know, they’re going to present a lot of different looks on the back end. Our I thought our secondary just did an excellent job communicating, being on the same page, being all tied together. Our rush was resilient. Jackson’s going to get out of get out and make some plays out in space. And so, you got to be able to respond after that. He’s going to make a play and you got to respond. And so, uh, you know, credit to all those guys. How do you evaluate this special team as a whole? Yeah. Yeah, obviously some positives. Uh certainly we we did some good things. It’s ultimately not quite good enough. Um you know, we we got to keep battling there and so we got the right guys. We got a bunch of guys who’ve had a lot of success in this league and um when you go through bumps, you know, you bring a little bit closer, you bring a little bit tighter, you find the solutions together and uh we keep moving. You mentioned offensively the you frustration of not having these closer plays. Do you think a guy like Kool-Aid on the defensive side kind of needed that interception? He didn’t see one go his way. Yeah. Yeah, certainly with Kool-Aid, he’s been close on some opportunities. He hasn’t quite gotten the the ball production yet in his career and so, uh, you know, for him to make two plays, I thought, you know, awesome awesome job by him. Credit to him. Uh, great great plays right when we need them. Tell them, will you be any game bowls after this one? Yes, absolutely. So, we’ll uh, you know, we uh, we gave Spence and Kool-Aid a couple in there. We’ll obviously give plenty more guys on on Monday as we evaluate the film and have an opportunity to kind of uh you know recognize all the good that came into this game. And so uh you know it’s an awesome opportunity for our entire team to recognize you know the good stuff that came out of this. Do you have any plans to celebrate your first one? I don’t know. I’m uh I’m tired. Uh these weeks are long so I’m ready to hang out and uh yeah get a little sleep. First of all, did you get ball too? And second, um, totally unrelated, but was there another call that was confusing to you in the first half near the pylon? Is that the challenge? That one, too. Yeah. Yeah, the challenge. It was a tricky look. I knew it was kind of a 50/50. Uh, we just didn’t get a ton of looks. We felt like there was a chance for a replay there. And so, uh, you know, I knew I was taking a little bit of chance that may not have converted there. Um, you know, they got get on the line scrimmage. They were able to run the play. Felt like there’s a chance where the ball was bobbled at that point. And so, uh, yeah, we we didn’t get it done. And, uh, yes, AK gave me a game ball. AK is the best. What is this, as as best you can say, and I know you don’t like questions about yourself, but what does this feel like for you to get this one? Just, you know, a proof of concept kind of thing. Like, what is this? Yeah. Walking off that field, what does that feel? No, I think for all of our guys, for all of our coaches, this entire group that’s come together, um there’s a lot of resiliency that’s had to come through for four games to miss four opportunities and to be close and feel like you’re playing some good football. And so, felt like it was good. Felt like it was a big- time momentum opportunity for our team, establish um you know, some winning success and hopefully it carries on in the future. All right. Thanks, guys. There he is. Congratulations.

Watch New Orleans Saints head coach Kellen Moore’s postgame interview after the Saints’ game vs. the New York Giants in Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season. Saints vs. Giants Game Center: https://www.neworleanssaints.com/game-day/2025/reg-week5/giants-at-saints/
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