{"id":21762,"date":"2025-10-27T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21762\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:50:07","slug":"new-orleans-saints-make-in-game-quarterback-change-in-loss-to-tampa-bay-will-evaluate-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21762\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints make in-game quarterback change in loss to Tampa Bay, will evaluate position\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ratter and Shough battled for the starting position throughout the offseason, with Rattler emerging as the starter for the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>He completed 15 of 21 passes for 136 yards and was sacked three times, but Rattler lost a fumble on the Saints&#8217; opening offensive drive for the second consecutive game, and threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown on the team&#8217;s first drive of the second quarter, after the defense made a goal-line stand and stuffed Tampa Bay on four runs from the 1-yard line.<\/p>\n<p>For Rattler, the pick-6 \u2014 a pass that was batted by linebacker Anthony Nelson, who corralled his carom and fought through an attempted tackle to score from four yards out \u2014 was Rattler&#8217;s sixth turnover in as many quarters, dating back to the previous game against Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Shough entered with 4:02 left in the third quarter and New Orleans trailing 17-3. He completed 17 of 30 passes for 128 yards, was intercepted once and sacked twice in his NFL debut. His interception was a pass that was in the hands of receiver <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/team\/players-roster\/chris-olave\/\" title=\"Chris Olave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Olave<\/a>, but wrestled away by Bucs safety Antoine Winfield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just needed to find a way to create something on offense,&#8221; Moore said. &#8220;It has more to do with the offense collectively. We&#8217;re just not executing and playing at a high enough standard and we&#8217;ve got to find a way to move the football consistently, protect the football and score points. This is a pure, full offensive evaluation point. We&#8217;re not there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve just got to evaluate this whole thing in the next 48 hours on offense, find the solutions that give us the best chance to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The season-low scoring output for the Saints (1-7) had been 13 points, which they&#8217;d twice been limited to, before they were kept out of the end zone Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rattler, prior to the current six-turnovers-in-seven-quarters stretch, had turned over the ball once in the first six games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s part of the game,&#8221; Rattler said of the change. &#8220;I understand. You can&#8217;t control everything but I&#8217;m going to be a great teammate and respond the right way. Be a pro about it and help in any way I can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last two weeks (with turnovers), I think last week (against Chicago) I started pressing. I don&#8217;t feel like I pressed at all this game. I think I got careless with keeping it high and tight on that first drive on the run, and then the tipped pick was unfortunate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moore noted the positives that Rattler has provided for the bulk of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spencer has done plenty of good this season when you look at it from a bigger perspective,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need to find a way to get the thing going. That&#8217;s our project and that&#8217;s our efforts moving forward, is to find solutions moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Shough, it was a debut against a defense that has confounded many over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ratter and Shough battled for the starting position throughout the offseason, with Rattler emerging as the starter for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13608,8943,16994,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-21762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-2025-reg-week8","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-news-john-deshazier","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}