The Bucs were down early in their return game after their Trans-Atlantic soujourn and were never really in this game. There were some more bad penalties for what was becoming a consistenly undisciplined team and the signs of problems to come were beginning to appear.

GAME SCORING NO 2:27-1Q Moore 3 pass from Brees (Kasay kick) NO 8:34-2Q Sproles 21 pass from Brees (Kasay kick) TB 1:39-2Q Barth FG40 NO 0:00-2Q Kasay FG21 TB 9:29-3Q Barth FG48 NO 3:11-3Q Thomas 9 run (Kasay kick) TB 11:08-4Q Barth FG25 TB 5:33-4Q Winslow 5 pass from Freeman (Barth kick) NO 1:17-4Q Kasay FG34

GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings reports from the Superdome Martin Fennelly is fed up with all the poor starts How Rick Stroud saw the game unfold Gary Shelton hates the wildcat third down call The run defense just gets run over again Saints' blitz gives Freeman fits Some more thoughts and views on the loss Scott Smith's official game report The official gamebook including the play-by-play

STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Penn DE 71 Bennett LG 76 Zuttah DT 93 McCoy C 52 Faine DT 92 Price RG 75 Joseph DE 94 Clayborn RT 65 Trueblood SLB 58 Black TE 82 WInslow MLB 59 Foster TE 88 Stocker WLB 57 Hayward TE 69 Dotson LCB 25 Talib WR 17 Benn RCB 20 Barber RB 27 Blount SS 26 Jones QB 5 Freeman FS 36 Jackson PLAYED 9 Koenen, 10 Barth, 11 Johnson, 19 M Williams, 22 Asante, 24 Gaitor, 28 Lumpkin, 31 Biggers, 32 Madu. 33 Mack, 41 Lynch, 44 Lorig, 48 Economos, 51 Cutrera, 54 Hayes, 56 Watson, 73 Hardman, 80 Pianalto, 81 Spurlock, 87 Parker, 89 Briscoe, 90 Miller, 91 Bowers, 97 Johnson INACTIVE 18 Stroughter, 23 Lewis, 53 Diles, 76 Zuttah, 77 Lee, 96 Crowder, 98 Okam

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Blount 13-72, Freeman 3-8, Lumpkin 2-7, Johnson 1-1, Benn 1-(-4). SAINTS: Ivory 15-67, P.Thomas 8-66, Sproles 4-42, Brees 1-20. PASSING BUCS: Freeman 37-27-281-0-1. SAINTS: Brees 36-27-258-1-2. RECEIVING BUCS: Williams 6-46, Lumpkin 4-31, Winslow 4-29, Parker 3-56, Pianalto 2-24, Benn 2-22, Lorig 2-12, Blount 2-8, Briscoe 1-46, Spurlock 1-7. SAINTS: Graham 6-78, Sproles 5-57, Colston 5-52, P.Thomas 4-25, Moore 3-20, Henderson 2-13, Gilmore 1-9, D.Thomas 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Barber 1-0. SAINTS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Parker 1-45. SAINTS: Sproles 2-54. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Parker 2-16. SAINTS: Sproles 1-15. SACKS BUCS: none. SAINTS: Harper 1-0.