As it turns out, the answer to the question "How do you shut down the NFL's most prolific offense?" was simple.
Just take away four of its top 5 weapons against a defense playing one of its best games of the year.
Trying to keeping pace for the NFL's top record, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell flat on Sunday in a 9-0 loss to the New Orleans Saints, who did just enough to take advantage of a brutal night of injuries in Tampa Bay and improve to 7-7.
The shutout was Tom Brady's first since 2006, per NFL Research, so long ago that no player on the Saints defense had even entered the NFL.