Both safeties had plays they’d like to get back
He dove over top of the receiver, intercepting a pass to preserve the lead. Then Kareem Moore bounced up and started to run.
Meanwhile, fellow safety LaRon Landry played one of his best games, making big hits in the secondary, defending three passes and making all his tackles.
But both safeties had moments they would like back.
For Moore, it came at the end of his return. The Saints’ Robert Meacham ripped the ball away as Moore spun out of a tackle. He returned the ball 44 yards for a touchdown to tie the game at 17 with 22 seconds left before halftime.
“He just took it from me,” Moore said. “I’m trying to score. That’s every defensive back’s dream, get a pick six.”
The play was reviewed, but not to the Redskins’ pleasure.
“I thought I had it all along,” he said. “I wish it did hit the ground now. It’s something I have to live with.”
The Saints burned Washington’s secondary with scoring passes of 40 and 53 yards, the latter tying the game at 30 with 1:19 left in regulation. Overall, New Orleans passed for 408 yards vs. Washington, the most the Redskins have allowed in 13 years.
Landry blamed himself for the 40-yarder in the second quarter to Marques Colston.
“He made a nice double move,” Landry said. “As soon as he came out of his break he ran a post and I’m thinking [quarterback Drew Brees is] about to launch it. Post and up. I ain’t never seen that from the slot.”
Saints coach Sean Payton said, “We felt the safeties were going to [jump] some of those in-cuts and certainly they did.”
But the second one to Meachem, though Landry was deep, the Redskins safety called a “missed coverage assignment … If you know what’s called in the huddle, then you have a clear understanding of it.”
That doesn’t make it any better.
“You have to have better communication,” Redskins safety Reed Doughty said, “and better focus on what we’re trying to stop. We knew they needed seven. We can’t give up seven.”
