Tampa Bay at New Orleans game thread (1 Viewer)

[Grahamburn]

Pedestrian? Bucs have elite skill players at WR and TE

Pretty typical. When you haven’t won anything nobody knows who you are. 

 

[Grahamburn]

BOOOOOOOM!

 

[MarshallRob]

Fitzpatrick does not miss Evans there. This is an amazing offensive display.

 

[Capella]

Pedestrian 

 

[gump]

Wow...good call @Grahamburn if that was you about Fitz making a statement to keep starting post-Jameis suspension.

 

[Capella]

Mike Evans dusting Lattimore is my heroin. 

 

[MarshallRob]

Another big catch for Thomas but he gets hit from behind and loses the ball. Another chance for Fitzpatrick. 

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

Wow...good call @Grahamburn if that was you about Fitz making a statement to keep starting post-Jameis suspension.

That is a good call. Fitz is underrated. He's too old to retain starting status, but he can start games and is one of the more intelligent game managers and upper tier backups in the NFL.

He deserves his slot.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Winston needs to not get his job back. Fitz has been fantastic today.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

Mike Evans steal of a lot of drafts. 

 

[Todem]

That is a good call. Fitz is underrated. He's too old to retain starting status, but he can start games and is one of the more intelligent game managers and upper tier backups in the NFL.

He deserves his slot.

He is certainly much better than Crab Legs.

 

[Grahamburn]

Wow...good call @Grahamburn if that was you about Fitz making a statement to keep starting post-Jameis suspension.

I didn’t expect him to play like this but if it continues it will be a tough decision. 

God help Jameis if he throws an incompletion. 

 

[Grahamburn]

OMG. 

 

[MarshallRob]

More Fitzmagic!  Another bomb to Jackson. This is hilarious.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Fitz effing unconscious

 

[Capella]

Unreal 

 

[Grahamburn]

3 beautiful deep ball TDs today from Fitzmagic. 

 

[Todem]

A slaughter of epic proportions. My god man. 

 

[Statorama]

A slaughter of epic proportions. My god man. 

This Saints defense is horrible.  A real offense may have scored a hundred today.

Could be worse, could be cheering for Buffalo today

 

[gump]

This game isn't over.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

It’s not, but the Saints have some serious flaws right now. Where is the variety in the offense? It’s all Kamara & Thomas, that’s not their style.

 

[Statorama]

TB offense is pretty underrated, I think. Lots of talent at WR.

Come on man, Fitzpatrick with 400+ yards?  This D is going to make for a long season.

As for the Bucs, you'll see their real offense show up next week.

 

[Grahamburn]

Pretty sure no D stops that offense today. Fitz throwing dimes to the best skill position group in the NFL. 

 

[Capella]

This is the most Bucs #### ever. 

 

[MarshallRob]

Bucs miss a FG that would have iced it. Saints then drive down the field easily and after a Kamara TD, it's Ginn with the conversion. 8 point game with 3:30 left. Are the Bucs really going to blow what was a 24 point lead?

 

[Long Ball Larry]

If this doesn’t get to 48-48 just shut the league down

 

[Grahamburn]

Bucs kicking woes continue. They always find a way to blow it. 

 

[MarshallRob]

Now a long Fitz run for a huge first down! 

 

[Grahamburn]

Love you, Fitzmagic. 

 

[Statorama]

If this doesn’t get to 48-48 just shut the league down

Saints D won't permit that to happen.  3rd down, ballgame on the line, Fitzpatrick runs for 12 yards.  Good grief

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Saints D won't permit that to happen.  3rd down, ballgame on the line, Fitzpatrick runs for 12 yards.  Good grief

Seriously. Contain.

 

[fatness]

Winston needs to not get his job back. Fitz has been fantastic today.

Fitzpatrick never stays fantastic. He does very well in stretches and then steadily fizzles.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

This is onbthe coaches though. Gilislee signing is a total disaster.

 

[Todem]

Saints defense....WTF happened? Last season one of the best.

Outlier this game? Or same old Saints defense again?

 

[Statorama]

This is onbthe coaches though. Gilislee signing is a total disaster.

He needs to be doing something else on Monday.

 

[Statorama]

If TB scores even HALF what they did today next week, I'll tip my hat to them as a good offense.

Until then, this goes down as just bad defense.

 

[Capella]

If TB scores even HALF what they did today next week, I'll tip my hat to them as a good offense.

Until then, this goes down as just bad defense.

They were 7th in the league in yards per play last year. I don’t know what else to tell you man. 

 

[Doug B]

Come on man, Fitzpatrick with 400+ yards?  This D is going to make for a long season.

Same as Saints at Minnesota last year, Week One 2017. Not saying the Saints D doesn't have A LOT to clean up, but it's not quittin' time just yet.

Too many in the media anointed the Saints as NFC champs, and too many Saints players ate the cheese. TB in the Dome has been penciled in as an auto-win since April. They've forgotten that auto-wins don't exist in the NFL.

 

[Doug B]

This is onbthe coaches though. Gilislee signing is a total disaster.

Don't agree, yet. One fumble does not a disaster make. But Gillislee can't make a habit of laying the ball down.

Dude could be the new Tim Hightower for the Saints, just can't make that kind of mistake.

 

[Doug B]

If TB scores even HALF what they did today next week, I'll tip my hat to them as a good offense.

Until then, this goes down as just bad defense.

They were 7th in the league in yards per play last year. I don’t know what else to tell you man. 

The much bigger story today was wherever the TB defense came from. Your guys weren't 7th in too many defensive stats last season.

 

[Statorama]

Don't agree, yet. One fumble does not a disaster make. But Gillislee can't make a habit of laying the ball down.

Dude could be the new Tim Hightower for the Saints, just can't make that kind of mistake.

If Mark Ingram had laid that ball down Coach would have assaulted him

 

[Statorama]

Not saying the Saints D doesn't have A LOT to clean up, but it's not quittin' time just yet.

TB gave them a lot to review.  Film day won't be pretty.

Dennis Allen is a good defensive coach, and I'm sure he'll adjust.

 

[Grahamburn]

Lot of clowns exited their survivor pools week 1. 

 

[Statorama]

Definitely worried about Tyrod's wheels after Fitzpatrick looked like a gazelle 

 

[Grahamburn]

Loved the play calling from Todd Monken. Never took the foot off the gas. 

 

[gump]

Mike Evans: 7 targets, 7 receptions

I can't be reading that right.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

He needs to be doing something else on Monday.

He will be, I fell sure.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Loved the play calling from Todd Monken. Never took the foot off the gas. 

This is true.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Don't agree, yet. One fumble does not a disaster make. But Gillislee can't make a habit of laying the ball down.

Dude could be the new Tim Hightower for the Saints, just can't make that kind of mistake.

I dunno. Williams and Scott play all summer & Williams goes back to last year.  They *knew Ingram would be suspended. So they just bring Gilly in for less than a week of work? How dumb is that? The result seems inevitable.

This team is built on diversity of touches and it was almost all Thomas & Kamara today, Williams, Scott, Smith & Meredith were unused.

Im Not complaining about 40 points but the miscues affected the flow of the game.