Scoring Plays:
1Q - NO - Wil Lutz 44 yd FG GOOD | NO 3, TB 0
1Q - NO - Wil Lutz 26 yd FG GOOD | NO 6, TB 0
1Q - NO - Drew Brees to Michael Thomas 16 yd TD pass (PAT Good) | NO 13, TB 0
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2Q - NO - Drew Brees to Jared Cook 3 yd TD pass (PAT Good) | NO 20, TB 0
2Q - TB - Jameis Winston to Peyton Barber 6 yd TD pass (PAT Good) | NO 20, TB 7
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3Q - TB - Matt Gay 55 yd FG GOOD | NO 20, TB 10
3Q - NO - Drew Brees to Ted Ginn Jr. 6 yd TD pass (PAT Good) | NO 27, TB 10
3Q - TB - Jameis Winston to Chris Godwin 30 yd TD pass (PAT Good) | NO 27, TB 17
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4Q - NO - Marcus Williams 55 yd interception return for TD (PAT Good) | NO 34, TB 17
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Hello Who Dats & Who Datettes. Welcome to the Week 11/Game 10 Saints Game Thread

The Saints come into today's second match-up of the season against the Tampa Bay reeling a bit after last week's flop at home against Atlanta and looking to right the ship and get back to the potential Super Bowl Champion form we saw prior to the bye week.

But given that the Saints didn't lose all that much last week when it comes to hopes for a 3rd straight division title (Panthers lost... Saints still 2 games up in NFC South) or even a 1st round bye/homefield advantage (49ers lost... so still 1 game back of 1-seed)... last week could've been a lot worse. But the team must recognize that the NFC is ultra-competitive this season with the NFC West winner, Saints, & Packers all vying for those top 2 seeds... so another loss like what happened last week can't happen again.

As noted, this is the 2nd meeting of the season between the Saints & Bucs... with the Saints coming out of the week 5 meeting in the Superdome with the Bucs with a 31-24 win. Teddy Bridgewater went 26/34 for 314 yds 4 TDs and an INT in the win while the Bucs really couldn't guard Mike as MT13 went off for 11 catches 182 yds and 2 TDs... and oh by the way... the Bucs no longer have Vernon Hargreaves... though the Saints are nowhere near healthy for this game... which we'll get to in a moment.

LET'S FINISH THE SWEEP OF THE JAMEIS & THE BUCS AND GET BACK TO FEELING GOOD ABOUT THE 2019 SAINTS AGAIN!!!

Last week's loss to the Falcons not only impacted our win-loss record negatively, but also the injury report as several key players will miss some key time, including today. Those include Andrus Peat with a broken arm and both Marshon Lattimore & Deonte Harris with hamstring injuries. However, the wide receiver corps should be bolstered by the return of Keith Kirkwood back in the line-up off of injured reserve for his own hamstring issue. Also, hopefully Terron Armstead is fully over the flu bug that ailed him so badly in last week's game and was a large contributor to the failure of the offensive line.

As noted above... starting CB Vernon Hargreaves was waived this week by Tampa Bay and is now a Houston Texan after being claimed off of waivers, so he won't be there. Neither will LBs Anthony Nelson (hamstring) & Carl Nassib (groin) or CB MJ Stewart (knee). CB Carlton Davis (hip) is questionable but went from not practicing on Wednesday to fully participating in practice by Friday.

Weather: Should be a beautiful day of football along the Florida Gulf Coast with temperatures in the low to mid 60s and partly cloudy with no chance of rain... though it might be a bit windy with winds coming out of the NNW around 10 mph all afternoon

Uniforms: The all-white uniforms are back for today's road game

Current Standings:
NFC South
Saints 7-2
Panthers 5-4
Bucs 3-6
Falcons 2-7

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Today's Officials:
Referee: #126 Brad Rogers (3rd year as NFL official - 1st wearing white hat as head referee)

Umpire: #115 Tony Michalek
Down Judge: #79 Kent Payne
Line Judge: #10 Julian Mapp
Field Judge: #50 Aaron Santi
Side Judge: #58 Don Willard
Back Judge: #12 Greg Steed
Replay Official: John McGrath
Replay Assistant: Durwood Manley

Inactive Lists:
NO-
TE Dan Arnold
WR Austin Carr
DE Carl Granderson
OL Ethan Greenidge
KR Deonte Harris
CB Marshon Lattimore
G Andrus Peat

TB-
T Jerald Hawkins
TE Jordan Leggett
LB Carl Nassib
LB Anthony Nelson
CB MJ Stewart
G Aaron Stinnie
CB Mazzi Wilkins

This post was edited on 11/17/19 at 3:12 pm