The only matchup between two winning teams on Sunday did not produce the game most fans were hoping for - unless you cheer for the New Orleans Saints.
The Saints won their seventh straight game in dominant fashion, decimating the Buffalo Bills on the road by a score of 47-10, but the scoreline alone does not do their performance justice.
Here are four other statistics that illustrate just how well the Saints played in this game, in what was Bills' worst home loss since 2007:
Consecutive run plays
While Drew Brees has been the leading force of the Saints' top-ranked attack since he arrived in New Orleans in 2006, he had very little to do in the second half of the game.
In an effort to show they were able to do whatever they wanted to their opponent, the Saints ran the ball 24 straight times in the second half.
Twenty-four.
And they still kept scoring, converting a touchdown or field goal on the next five drives after going with the almost all-rush attack, before kneeling three times to close out the final drive of the game.
The Saints attempted only one pass after the 12:25-mark of third quarter, surely upsetting Brees' fantasy owners, as he finished with 184 passing yards, completing 18-of-25 attempts.
Rushing TDs
The Saints finished only nine yards short of the franchise single-game rushing record with 298 yards against the Bills, despite both Mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara surpassing 100 yards, but they did break their own record for most rushing scores.
New Orleans ran for a TD six times on Sunday, breaking the team record of five set in 1979. It was the first time since 2004 that a team had six rushing scores in a regular-season game.
Different TD scorers
The Saints didn't just lean on Ingram to do all the heavy lifting.
Though he scored three touchdowns on his own, Ingram was not alone in the end zone as Kamara, Brees, and Trey Edmunds also made trips to pay dirt.
Brees almost broke up the 24-play rushing streak, but he bailed on a passing play to scramble in for a seven-yard touchdown. Edmunds saw his first action from the backfield Sunday with nine carries for 48 yards and a score, entering the game with only three career touches, each coming on kick returns.
Time of possession
Bills fans didn't get many chances to even pretend their team could score enough points to make it interesting, as the Saints' offense dominated time of possession, holding on to the ball for 41:23.
New Orleans pulled off some excruciatingly long drives, controlling the first-down battle 32-10 by gaining 20 first downs on the ground, and notching seven drives lasting at least eight plays.
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