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Week 9 Preview: Saints Secondary Needs to Figure It Out by Sunday Night

1a. It sounds like Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and Antonio Brown will all be a go on Sunday night, along with a Bucs offensive line that's been much better since the season-opening loss in New Orleans. So if the Saints are going to get the season sweep and move back into the driver's seat in the NFC South, their defensive backfield has to step up.

That Week 1 win over the Bucs was the best performance of the season for a veteran secondary that hasn't been nearly as good as it should be. Among other problems, Marshon Lattimore doing his Jekyll thing (you might say Hyde, but I imagine Hyde would hold up better in man coverage than Jekyll) and Malcolm Jenkins looking like a shell of his former self.