{"id":75437,"date":"2025-12-08T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75437\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:13:20","slug":"rookie-quarterback-tyler-shough-and-new-orleans-saints-defense-lead-road-victory-against-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75437\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie quarterback Tyler Shough and New Orleans Saints defense lead road victory against Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the rain and turf at Raymond James Stadium caked cleats, slicked hands and smeared jerseys, Tyler Shough<\/a> left the field as pristine as he possibly could have on Sunday in Tampa, Fla.<\/p>\n

The New Orleans Saints rookie quarterback showed off the goods that made him the Saints’ highest drafted quarterback since 1971 in a 24-20 victory, his second as a starter and the third this season for the Saints (3-10).<\/p>\n

Shough ran for two touchdowns \u2014 including a lead-taking 13-yarder with 8:42 left \u2014 and benefited from a herculean defensive effort. New Orleans’ defense forced a turnover and produced five fourth-down stops, as the Saints won their second road game this season, each over the top two teams (Carolina and Tampa Bay) in the NFC South Division.<\/p>\n

“This is why you play football,” Shough said, after helping New Orleans raise its record to 2-3 in his starts. “You come in here, in the elements with all your boys, with all your teammates and we fought really hard. I was really proud of the O-line, just kind of chugging along the whole way, they did a really good job in protection.<\/p>\n

“The defense was making huge stops. I think we did a better job of being a little bit more complementary, and I’m just proud of all of our guys. It took everybody, so it was just a lot of fun. That’s the thing that is kind of resonating with me right now, it was just a lot of fun. And I think this shows kind of how we are as a team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the rain and turf at Raymond James Stadium caked cleats, slicked hands and smeared jerseys, Tyler Shough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[42438,38876,8943,16994,38877,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-75437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-2025-reg-week14","9":"tag-coach-executives","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-news-john-deshazier","12":"tag-roster","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75437","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=75437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}