The New Orleans Saints came back from 15 points down in the final six minutes of its game against the Washington Redskins to eventually sneak out a victory in overtime. According to Redskins safety DJ Swearinger, this could have been avoided had the team played the full game.

“I feel like guys didn’t understand the NFL,” Swearinger said, via the Washington Post. “The game’s never over in the NFL. It’s never over until it’s zero-zero [on the clock], and I think our guys didn’t trust that and believe that. The game is 60 minutes for a reason. Quarterbacks get paid a lot for a reason — to win games. It’s a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. You’ve got to be on your ‘A’ game in two-minute situations, and we wasn’t.”

For what its worth, if we want to giggle at some semantics, that game was actually longer than 60 minutes, making DJ Swearinger's point somewhat inaccurate.

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To be fair to him, he was just speaking to the final 15 minutes of the game, when Drew Brees went Hall of Famer on the Redskins.

It is certainly worth noting that it wasn't only Washington's defense that attributed to the late-game collapse. Kirk Cousins, your boy, got busted for an intentional grounding call in a pivotal portion of the game. As a result, the clock kept ticking and the Redskins were never able to attempt a potential game-winning field goal (not that the scenario was a guarantee).

Nevertheless, Washington played well for most of the game on Sunday, then fell to smithereens by the end.