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Bucs humiliate Saints 48-40 | Defense is boo boo hot garbage in Week 1 | Game Recap [Podcast]

Saints defense has nowhere to go but up after a sandpaper performance vs. Bucs in Week 1,

NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports

The New Orleans Saints managed to offer up another opening game dud for the 5th year in a row under head coach Sean Payton.

Per status quo, the defense was much maligned, and if only for this game seemed to warrant that ESPN Football Power Index’s second worst defensive unit ranking it garnered earlier this offseason. Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Buccaneers offense attacked every level with success, and Deuce and Ellias try to sift through the fixable and non-fixable issues that cropped up on Sunday.

We also explore if the Marshon Lattimore slump is real, and Deuce sheds a little light on how many of the touchdowns supposedly given up by Ken Crawley were actually on him.

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