My favorite selfish if starts with “if I had a Jerry Jones’ yacht at my full disposal”!

Indeed, TOs sucked in that game. No argument there. But All we can do is look at what happened providing we take out the “what ifs“. So let’s do that and see that Harris starts off red hot and was responsible for 2 big returns resulting in 9 points himself until a blocking call on the return was accepted. Then he (up to that time clearly the most dynamic player on the field) gets hurt and is lost in the first quarter for the rest of the game. Saints had to settle for FGs instead.

I could go on evaluating what happened every drive afterwards without the ifs, but my fingers are getting tired. Point is each play leads to another. Saints had chances for close TDs and they settled for FGs. Tampa had chances for close TDs and they got them. We can debate weather that was because Tampa had Better Offensive weapons available than the Saints or weather Tampa’s D performed better than the Saints D did in the Red zone. I don’t think it was Brees arm strength that did this...nor do I think it was zodiac 🤪. Nor do I think it was simply turnovers. I hear people argue that teams can fight through getting screwed by the refs. Well, then teams should be able to fight through TOs. The Saints had every chance to do so.

Tampa was a healthier, more prepared team that took advantages of the opportunities presented to them-offensively and defensively-to beat a very good Saints team, then very good Packers and Chiefs teams.