Rob Baxter: Exeter Chiefs boss will 'keep feet on the ground' after big Saracens win

Exeter had never scored 11 tries in a Premiership game before their win over Saracens

Exeter boss Rob Baxter says he and his side will not get carried away after their record-breaking win over Premiership champions Saracens.

Exeter's 11-try 65-10 victory was the heaviest defeat Sarries have ever suffered in the top flight.

The champions had a number of high-profile players away on World Cup duty as they faced a new-look young Exeter.

"The reality is I'm going to keep my feet on the ground," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon after the win.

"If we think we're great now we're going to lose next week.

"If we realise we've got a lot of hard work to do we give ourselves a chance next week."

It was Exeter's biggest opening-day win since a 52-0 victory at London Welsh in September 2014.

It came after a summer that saw 11 players - including Jack Nowell, Sam Simmonds, Stuart Hogg and Dave Ewers - who had formed the backbone of the squad that won the 2020 European Champions Cup and two domestic titles leave the club.

"Right from guys like Ehren Painter and the work they did at every scrum, you push that right through and that's some of the stuff that creates the space on the wing," explained Baxter.

"These are all things that we've got to really make sure that our team appreciates.

"If our team appreciate it then we can grow and thrive and get better and better, but if we stop appreciating that, that's when you start getting stodgy.

"If we can drive that and we can show the players that and they can learn to understand it, then the sky's the limit."