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Tom Brady's mistake-prone Buccaneers debut shows competent football isn't as easy as Patriots make it look

Tom Brady’s first interception was intended for Tampa Bay teammate Mike Evans. Except when Brady let it rip, he threw it to Marshon Lattimore, who plays for New Orleans. Brady thought Evans should keep going deep. Evans, correctly it turned out, thought the Saints’ coverage called for him to stop. So he did.

“Mike read it right,” Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians said.

The second one was an outlet that Brady so telegraphed that the Saints’ Janoris Jenkins jumped the route, intercepted the ball and took it 36 yards the other way for a touchdown.