Bucccaneers Squashed By Saints and It Wasn't Pretty

Told you so.

All you dreamers—go to your rooms. Go there now and stay there until you're told to come out!

Sunday, you saw what 10-and-zero looks like.

And you saw what one-and-nine looks like.

You saw a 38-7 undressing of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by the New Orleans Saints. You saw the Saints flat out de-pants the Bucs in front of the home crowd.

You saw more exposure of the horrible Jim Bates defense that has scribbled this unit into the Buccaneer history books as the most generous ever when it comes to surrendering points.

You saw Drew Brees do what Drew Brees does. You saw the Buccaneer run defense make Pierre Thomas and Mike Bell look like Barry Sanders.

You saw the Saints defense make Josh Freeman look like, well, a rookie. Three interceptions and a fumble left no hope that he'd somehow manufacture a fourth-quarter comeback.

There would be no comeback from 31-7, only an early departure by the home crowd, leaving the stadium virtually empty at the two-minute warning.

All that pregame talk about the Saints being an indoor turf team, the Saints missing Reggie Bush, the Saints having a tough time in St. Louis, etc., etc., etc. was bunk.

Pure bunk!

The only thing that could have helped would have been the Saints missing their charter to Tampa.

By the third quarter, the Saints' huge offensive line was DOMINATING the Bucs defenders.

All you dreamers, did you not know about the Saints' offensive line?

Sure you can say the Bucs were great early. For goodness sakes, they did score the game's first touchdown. Good for them.

It got plenty ugly after that.

Sure the defense got a few licks in. But that's the problem, they typically only get in a few licks. Sunday they got licked.

I will remind you one last time: Saints—five touchdowns and a field goal; Buccaneers—one touchdown.

Sure you dreamers told us the Bucs could keep it close.

If you want to dream, go to Kansas City for a week. Dreams came true there Sunday when they upset mighty Pittsburgh in overtime. They were able to give light to that "Any Given Sunday" phrase.

Go to your rooms, dreamers and come out, let's see, how about Wednesday?

You can figure out how the Bucs have a shot against the Falcons next Sunday in Atlanta.

Perhaps they do.

Atlanta is NOT New Orleans.

And that's no dream.