re: This will be unpopular, but the initial melts were justified

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They looked like shite for 6 quarters and it looked like it was going to be 2 full games until the blocked punt.

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Agreed. I was very concerned during the second quarter yesterday, but in my homerism, I honestly still believed the Saints were going to win that game. Sometimes a play like that is all it takes to get an offense out of a slump. Once the Saints scored 7 after the block, I knew the Bucs were screwed, homerism aside. Brees just feeds off of stuff like that.

Also, while the offense was flat in the first half, you could tell the offense was kind of getting it together on the drive that stalled for the field goal. Short, quick passes against a zone are responsible for a whole lot of the Saints' points this year, and that's what that drive consisted of. It just stalled, and then the bad energy just snowballed with the pick right before the half.