At halftime of his first game as coach of the New Orleans Saints, Kellen Moore gave an answer that left him open to ridicule.

The Saints had curiously not used any of their timeouts before the break. And by failing to do so, New Orleans was left with just 28 seconds on the clock after the Arizona Cardinals’ four-and-a-half-minute touchdown drive. It was an eyebrow-raising decision, one that was immediately questioned.

Moore’s initial answer didn’t smooth over matters, either.

“We were just trying to save our timeouts as much as we could,” Moore told CBS. “They did a good job of bleeding the clock and putting (themselves) in a favorable position. We didn’t get enough yards to play it out right there at the end of the half.”

Save our timeouts? For what?

It was a comment that perhaps M

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