On paper, Sunday night’s Saints-Bucs game should have been a pretty close one. New Orleans entered at 5–2, while Tampa Bay was 6–2. The Vegas oddsmakers had the Bucs as a three-point favorite, pretty standard for a home team in an even matchup.
The nation’s football “experts” didn’t see it that way. Every single panelist on ESPN, NFL Network and NBC’s pregame shows picked Tom Brady and the Bucs to win.
Not only were they all wrong, it was obvious by halftime how wrong they were. Tom Brady played like crap (22-of-38 passing for 209 yards and three interceptions) and the Bucs got blown out of the water, 38–3.