NEW ORLEANS — The game was five minutes old and the Bucs were already trailing.
The Saints offense looked like a hot knife and the Bucs defense looked like butter. The 2018 season was barely underway, and the Bucs had already been punched in the nose.
What happened next gave Tampa Bay fans an inkling of what the very near future might hold and plenty of hope that maybe, just maybe, things will be different this season.
These didn't look like the same ol' Bucs, after all.
Ryan Fitzpatrick dropped back to pass and fired a bomb to a wide-open DeSean Jackson.