Why New Orleans Saints Will Win
There’s a reason why the Saints were able to handle the Buccaneer offense twice.
The defensive front was able to get to Tom Brady, but that’s not enough. Brady has made a living off of being able to find his third and four reads faster than just about any quarterback ever, but that hasn’t been there in the first two games. Brady was hit 16 times in the two games – he hasn’t had enough time to let the deep plays happen.
Get Brady off the field, don’t turn the ball over, and control the clock.
New Orleans had the ball for almost three more minutes than the Buccaneers in the opener, and it had it for a whopping 40+ minutes in the 38-3 whacking back in early November. Now Drew Brees has all of his parts back, Michael Thomas is a part of the equation again, and he’s getting time to throw.
Chicago got just one sack last week, and that was when Taysom Hill was at quarterback. Brees didn’t come up with two many deep throws, but he didn’t need to.
He got the ball out of his hand in a hurry, he spread it around with with three different Saints getting targeted seven times and ten players catching at least one pass, and the team had the ball for 39 minutes with good drive after good drive and the D getting off the field fast.
The same formula should work against Tampa Bay. Again.
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