ARLINGTON, Texas — Scoring four touchdowns in one game against the Cowboys was something only one NFL player had done in Alvin Kamara’s lifetime, but the Saints running back matched that record in Sunday’s 44-19 rout at AT&T Stadium.
Kamara ran for three touchdowns and caught a 57-yard score from quarterback Derek Carr, leading the Saints to a statement road win and also making him just the second-ever winner of Tom Brady’s LFG Player of the Game honors.
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“What a performance by you. You did it in the run game, you did it in the pass game, you were awesome today,” Brady said to Kamara in presenting the award on air after Sunday’s win on FOX.
Kamara, who finished the day with 180 yards of total offense, gave credit to his offensive line and thanked Brady.
“This came out of your budget, Tom?” he joked, holding up the new hardware.
The Saints had opened the season with a strong 47-10 win over Carolina, but beating a team that went 2-15 last season only carries so much weight. To validate that success, they went into AT&T Stadium, where the Cowboys had won 16 straight regular-season home games, and scored touchdowns on their first six drives, dominating the Dallas defense.
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This was a difficult week for the city of New Orleans, with the city dealing with flooding and power outages as Hurricane Francine came up from the Gulf of Mexico. The city has dealt with bigger storms, but football is something that can lift the community through difficult times, and Kamara said he hoped that Sunday’s win could do that again.
“It’s tough any time you hear the word storm in New Orleans, right?” he said. “Just that word, it sends kind of a shot throughout the city, anticipating and then going through it. I know a lot of people lost some stuff this week, so I’m definitely feeling for them and [offering] prayers for them. On the…
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