The New Orleans Saints will play the Carolina Panthers on Sunday in Week 3 of the NFL 2015 regular season as the Saints look to end their two game slide. Today's game has a scheduled start time of 1 p.m. ET and takes place from the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The game can be watched on TV on the Fox network but can also be watched online through live stream via the link below.
The Saints have gotten off to a terrible start to the season, losing both their opening games. In Week 1 they went down 19-31 to the Arizona Cardinals, where they fell apart somewhat in the final quarter.
They had hoped to bounce back in Week 2 but suffered a home loss 19-26 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In that game the Saints finally looked like a team in the fourth quarter, winning it 12-3, but it was a case of too little, too late, as they were already 16 points down by that stage.
Falling to 0-3 would statistically make it extremely unlikely that they would make the Playoffs this year, effectively ending their season before it has even had the chance to get going.
Over the past 25 years only three teams have comeback from 0-3 to make the postseason, and even at 0-2, only 12 percent of teams in that period have made the Playoffs after losing their opening two games of the season.
The Saints simply cannot afford to lose today, but they come up against a strong Carolina Panthers team that is riding on the back of two straight wins to open up their season. The Panthers will be high on confidence and will be at home in Charlotte, meaning they must be strong favorites to claim a third straight win here today against the struggling Saints.
Week 3 is already crunch time for a number of NFL teams. Earlier this week on NFL Thursday Night Football, the New York Giants faced a massive game against the Washington Redskins. The Giants were 0-2 after their opening two games, and they knew if they slipped to 0-3 their season was almost guaranteed to be over before it had even got going.
The 1-1 Washington Redskins were hoping to move to 2-1 to compete with the NFC East division leading Dallas Cowboys, and at the same time all but eliminate one of their main rivals from contention for the postseason.
But when the push came to shove the Giants showed that they are still alive and kicking. New York came out of the blocks fast, building a 12-0 lead after the first quarter, and it was a lead they would refuse to give up despite some strong pressure from the Redskins in the fourth.
The Giants had lost their opening two games after getting themselves into winning positions and some must have thought they were heading the same way on Thursday. However, they finally held on to a second half lead and clinched a 32-21 win, with the highlight being a 30 yard Odell Beckham Jr touchdown catch.
The Redskins must have seen how the Giants collapsed under pressure in the fourth quarter against the Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons in Weeks 1 and 2. But even though the Redskins pushed hard in the fourth, scoring 15 points in the final quarter, the Giants responded to the pressure and recorded 14 points themselves to keep themselves in front.
For today's game between the New Orleans Saints and the Carolina Panthers, the game has a start time of 1 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the Fox network or online through live stream by clicking here.
