It didn’t feel real.
Terron Armstead couldn’t process what he was seeing. The sound. The image. It wasn’t happening. That was some other moment from some other time.
“It was fake. I was watching the screen, and I thought it was a replay,” he said. “He got to the 30, and the crowd is getting louder. In shock. Seriously, in shock.”
Stefon Diggs’ 61-yard touchdown on Sunday was all too real. It launched the Saints off the treadmill into a sedentary state, one where the team is left to figure out what happens next and reflect on what went wrong.