SaintsBro

I'm not able to break it down into an official, easily to understand, historical stat, but there is a LONG history of teams laying an egg the week after they have a really outstanding, bell-ringing, jaw-dropping effort, or big upset victory in a game the week before. Especially if the team is middle of the pack and mediocre, and is not like a powerhouse Pats, Packers, Steelers type consistent winner or dynasty type franchise.

The Bucs blew their wad last week, that was their Super Bowl, it was a huge beatdown ,and they expended a tremendous amount of effort in blowing out the Rams, so I have a feeling they will naturally be down a notch or two this week, just because they blew out so much energy pounding the Rams all day long.

If they had beaten the Rams 28-24 last week, in a squeaker, they would be much more dangerous and scary to me, going up against these Saints, if you get what I mean.

But when you ring the gong and blow somebody out, drop a 50 burger on a team from last year's Super Bowl, it's actually very hard to come back the next week and sustain that same level of energy and play "over your head" for a second time in a row. We'll see how they do against the Saints D.