“Someone said: “numbers never lie.” And that was a lie, because sometimes numbers lie. But they don’t lie all the time, and that’s the truth.” - Anonymous.
The New Orleans Saints (1-0) won their season opener for the second consecutive year after beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 34-23 on Sunday afternoon in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. You have to go back to the 2009 and 2010 seasons for the last time the Saints won their season-opener in consecutive years. Incredible isn’t it? Even in 2011, one of the most successful seasons in Saints’ history, New Orleans lost 42-34 on the road at Green Bay en route to a 13-3 record and a trip to the divisional round of the playoffs.