Impressed as New Orleans Saints offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak sounded while describing rookie quarterback Spencer Rattler’s field presence, he also made sure to point out that swagger alone won’t cut it in the NFL.
“I don’t want to overplay the swag thing,” Kubiak said when asked to expand on his comments about Rattler’s outward confidence. “It’s a nice thing to have, but at the end of the day, are you producing?
“You can have my wet-blanket personality,” Kubiak continued in his usual, low-volume monotone. “These guys got to produce, no matter what their personality is.”
Production on offense has been hard to come by lately for the Saints (2-3), who’ll try to snap a three-game skid on Sunday when they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3-2).
The Saints have averaged 16.3 points per game during their past three contests after averaging 45.5 points in a pair of lopsided victories to open the season.
Now they’ve turned to Rattler — a fifth-round draft choice out of South Carolina — as they try to beat the Bucs, who are coming off an overtime loss at Atlanta in which they lost the lead at the end of regulation.
“We want to get this taste out of our mouth,” Tampa Bay receiver Mike Evans said. “Obviously, last week we felt like we had that game in hand.”
Tampa Bay had a few extra days of rest after playing a Thursday night game in Week 5. The Saints are on a short week because they played at Kansas City on Monday night, when QB Derek Carr suffered an oblique injury that will keep him out this week and possibly longer.
The Buccaneers have had complications of their own because of Hurricane Milton, which made landfall as a Category 3 storm about 70 miles south of Tampa. It caused widespread damage, even shredding the fabric roof of Tropicana Field, the Tampa Bay Rays’ baseball stadium.
Rather than traveling from Tampa to New Orleans the day before Sunday’s game as they normally would, the Bucs arrived on Tuesday to escape the storm and held practices at Tulane…
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