\n New Orleans Saints<\/p>\n
Last game: Won 24-20 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-6)<\/p>\n
Offensive standout: QB Tyler Shough<\/p>\n
Although he didn’t have the best game as a passer \u2013 13 of 20 for 144 yards with an interception \u2013 Shough’s legs won New Orleans this game. He had two touchdown runs against the Bucs, a 34-yarder in the third quarter and another 13-yard score in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Defensive standout: CB Alontae Taylor<\/p>\n
Taylor was solid in coverage and had a big hand in limiting Baker Mayfield to just 122 yards on a really gross day for football. He secured the Saints’ only turnover and allowed two catches on six targets in his coverage.<\/p>\n
Needs improvement: Penalties<\/p>\n
The Saints were penalized 10 times on Sunday, bringing their season total to 104 on the season.<\/p>\n
Telling quote: “It’s a good win for our guys, it’s awesome. Again, for our guys to be battling, playing December football \u2013 still playing meaningful December football. Maybe in a little bit of a different way than you’d hope. Obviously, I think our guys are battling for each other, they’re playing for each other, they want to win all these games. I thought just the way our guys responded for four quarters was really special.” \u2013 Saints head coach Kellen Moore<\/p>\n
Up next: The Saints host the Carolina Panthers (7-6) on Sunday at 4:25 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints Last game: Won 24-20 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-6) Offensive standout: QB Tyler Shough Although…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17039,11559,42661,15945,115,135,137,136,45092,45091],"class_list":["post-80927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2025-season","tag-bijan-robinson","tag-james-pearce-jr","tag-kyle-pitts","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tracking-the-nfc-south","tag-will-mcfadden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80927","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=80927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}