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2024 Game Preview: Saints-Buccaneers, Week 18

The Buccaneers' 2024 regular season comes to a close on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium, but they can play on into January if they can beat a Saints team with a recent history of success in Tampa

Jan 02, 2025 at 08:00 AM

Scott Smith

Senior Writer/Editor

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 2024 regular season has come down to one climactic weekend, and if they can come out of it with a win they will have a second season to attack.

The Buccaneers' season finale is a home game against the 5-11 New Orleans Saints, who have been eliminated from playoff contention but have a prime opportunity to play spoiler against a division rival. Tampa Bay is 9-7 and has a one-game lead on the 8-8 Atlanta Falcons that must be maintained in order for the Bucs to win their fourth straight NFC South title. The Buccaneers and Falcons will both kick off at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, with Atlanta at home against the 4-12 Carolina Panthers.

That the Buccaneers are favored by almost two touchdowns against a banged-up Saints team they beat 51-27 in Week Six is not particularly relevant to the players as they prepare for yet another must-win situation. Just a year ago, the Buccaneers were in the same position, needing a Week 18 win in Carolina to stay ahead of the Saints, and they barely escaped Charlotte with a 9-0 victory.

"We can't sleep on anyone," said cornerback Zyon McCollum. "A divisional opponent, they're going to come in here and give everything they have. They have nothing to lose, so we've got to be prepared to give it our best shot. It's a t-shirt and hat game, so there's a lot of excitement around the locker room."

Moreover, the Saints have a recent history of dominance at Raymond James Stadium, even in seasons in which the Bucs are otherwise enjoying a lot of success. Just last year, Tampa Bay won four of its last five games to edge out New Orleans for the division title, but their one loss in that span was a 23-13 decision at home against the Saints. Not surprisingly, the Saints had the edge in turnovers, 4-0, which has been the prevailing theme of the New Orleans-Tampa Bay series this decade.

"It's a divisional game – it's never taken for granted," said Head Coach Todd Bowles. "We know that going in. We still have a lot of things to work on. We've got to play the right way and do all the little things for us to win this ball game. Obviously, the turnover battle is going to be very important. Usually, when we play these guys, whoever wins the turnover battle wins the game."

The Saints have had trouble scoring during their current 1-4 stretch, an unsurprising development given injuries to the likes of Derek Carr, Taysom Hill, Chris Olave, Rashid Shaheed, Bub Means and Alvin Kamara. New Orleans didn't crack 20 points in any of those five games. However, Carr, Kamara and Olave all have a shot at returning for Sunday's game, and the Bucs clearly remember the Saints scoring 27 first-half points against them in Week Six even without Carr.

Fortunately, the current version of this 2024 Bucs team seems well-equipped to handle a shootout, should one break out on Sunday. The Buccaneers have risen to fourth in the NFL in points and third in yards, and are the only team in the NFL to rank in the top five in both rushing and passing yards. Tampa Bay has the most 500-yard games (3) and 400-yard games (10) in the NFL this season and have seven different players with more than 300 receiving yards. The Bucs can move the ball and find the end zone in a lot of different ways and with the ball in the hands of a lot of different players.

"It's never easy to know if we're going to score or not, but it's good to know we can fight different battles," said Bowles. "We can play a muscle game, we can play an air game, we can play a grind-out game, we can play an edge game. Whatever is given to us, we try to take advantage of it. It's good to know we're multiple that way."

The Buccaneers started fast against Carolina in Week 17, scoring on their first five drives and then pulling away for a 48-14 win. They don't need to win by 34 again in Week 18; one more point than the Saints at the end of the game would do the trick. Still, Mayfield wants the Bucs to go into Sunday's game with the mindset of keeping the pedal to the metal.

"I'll speak from an offense perspective – still playing aggressive, still playing to win, to go win the game, not just to get by," he said. "Having that same mentality we've carried through of trying to score a lot of points early and often, to let the defense get after them a little bit. That's our mentality on offense – to score as many as we possibly can and don't look back."

GAME AND BROADCAST DETAILS

New Orleans Saints (5-11) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (9-7)

Sunday, January 5, 1:00 p.m. ET

Raymond James Stadium (capacity: 65,844)

Tampa, Florida

Television: FOX

TV Broadcast Team: Kevin Burkhardt (play-by-play), Tom Brady (analysts), Erin Andrews (reporter), Tom Rinaldi (reporter)

Radio: 98Rock (WXTB, 97.9 FM), Flagship Station

Radio Broadcast Team: Gene Deckerhoff (play-by-play), Dave Moore (analyst), T.J. Rives (reporter)

Spanish Radio: 96.1 Caliente

Spanish Radio Broadcast Team: Carlos Bohorquez (play-by-play), Martin Gramática (analyst), Santiago Gramática (reporter)

GAMEDAY INFORMATION

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TICKETING INFORMATION

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ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD SERIES

The Buccaneers and Saints were frequent opponents in the '70s, '80s and '90s when the NFL's annual game schedule was heavily influenced by the previous year's standings. They became even better acquainted when the league changed its scheduling format to a divisional rotation in 2002, after a 32nd team was added and the NFL realigned into eight four-team divisions. The Buccaneers left their old NFC Central haunt that year to join the new NFC South, which also drew in the Saints, Panthers and Falcons. That meant two games against the Saints every year, of course.

New Orleans leads the all-time series with Tampa Bay, 40-25 but the Buccaneers have won four of the last five meetings, including a 51-27 blowout in the Superdome in Week Six of this season. The Buccaneers rushed out to a quick 17-0 lead in the first quarter, keyed by Antoine Winfield Jr.'s 58-yard fumble return for a touchdown, but a rash of turnovers by the offense in the second quarter allowed the Saints to storm back for a 27-24 halftime lead. However, the Bucs scored all 27 of the game's second-half points while amassing a franchise single-game record with 594 yards of offense. Running back Sean Tucker won NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors for his 192 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns in the game.

The Bucs also won in New Orleans last year, taking a 26-9 decision in the Superdome in Week Four. Baker Mayfield threw touchdown passes to Deven Thompkins, Trey Palmer and Cade Otton and the Bucs' defense held the Saints to 197 total yards of offense. Winfield had another big game, combining a team-high nine tackles with a sack, two tackles for loss, a pass defensed, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.

The Buccaneers won five of their last six regular season games in 2023, but the exception was a rematch with the Saints in Tampa in Week 17. New Orleans got the split and kept the Bucs from clinching the division title (for one more week), racing out to a 20-0 lead before finishing off a 23-13 victory. Quarterback Derek Carr threw touchdown passes to tight ends Juwan Johnson and Taysom Hill and the Saints' defense picked Mayfield off twice.

The Buccaneers own the win in the only postseason meeting between the two teams, as they defeated the Saints in the Divisional Round in 2020 by a 30-20 score in the Superdome on the way to the Super Bowl LV championship. That proved to be the final game in Drew Brees's illustrious career, as he retired a few months later. Sean Murphy-Bunting, Mike Edwards and Devin White all picked Brees off as the Bucs rallied from a seven-point deficit in the second half to get the win, scoring the game's final 17 points.

In 2022, the Bucs got their first season sweep of their division rival since 2007. Before that, the Saints had won seven in a row in the head-to-head battle (not counting the 2020 postseason game) dating back to 2018. Tampa Bay won in the Superdome in Week Two in 2022, taking a 20-10 decision that was actually still a 3-3 tie going into the fourth quarter. The Bucs' defense generated five turnovers in the last 17 minutes of game play, including a pick-six by safety Mike Edwards. In the Week 13 rematch in Tampa, on the Monday Night Football stage, the Bucs rallied for two fourth-quarter touchdowns to eke out a 17-16 victory. Tom Brady led 91 and 63-yard touchdown drives in the last five minutes of the game, ending the first with a one-yard touchdown pass to Otton and the second with a six-yard scoring connection with Rachaad White with three seconds left in the game.

During their long winning streak in the series, New Orleans scored at least 28 points in five of those seven games, including a 36-27 decision in New Orleans on Halloween last year. The exception was a 9-0 blanking the Saints delivered at Raymond James Stadium last December, marking just the second shutout for either team in the series and the first since a 41-0 win by New Orleans in 2012. The roughest game for the Buccaneers in that stretch came on a Sunday night in November of 2020 at Raymond James Stadium, with the Saints rolling to a 38-3 decision that was easily Tampa Bay's worst game on its way to that Super Bowl title.

The Bucs-Saints series was first contested in 1977. That initial meeting is famously the first win in franchise history for the Buccaneers, who left New Orleans on December 11 of that year with a 33-14 victory that snapped a franchise-opening 26-game losing streak. The Bucs still had a 3-2 edge in the series by the end of 1982, which would also prove to be the end of the franchise's first run of playoff seasons. The Saints took control of the series by winning six straight in the mid-'80s.

Since they became division mates, the Bucs and Saints have squared off 45 times, 27 of them going in favor of New Orleans. The two teams had a run of season splits from 2015-18, and it wasn't just a matter of the each club holding serve on home field advantage. The Buccaneers actually won at New Orleans in 2015 and 2018, as noted above. That 2018 game was a 48-40 decision that set an NFL record for most combined points in a Week One contest.

Weirdly, the Saints beat Tampa Bay twice in that first NFC South season in 2002, even though the Buccaneers would win the 2002 division title on their way to victory in Super Bowl XXXVII. Those two games represented half of the Bucs' losses that year. In a minor bit of payback, a 2-12 Bucs team beat a 13-1 Saints team in the penultimate week of the 2009 season, before the Saints would go on to win their first Super Bowl. The Saints also won both games in 2020 in the regular season, in another Buccaneers championship campaign.

NOTABLE CONNECTIONS

Buccaneers Senior Advisor to the General Manager Bruce Arians got his first NFL coaching job in Kansas City from 1989-92 but then returned to the college ranks in 1993. His second crack at the NFL would come in New Orleans, where he was the tight ends coach under Head Coach Jim Mora in 1996.
Kevin Carberry, who is in his first season as the Buccaneers' offensive line coach, came to Tampa from New Orleans, where he was the assistant offensive line coach in 2023.
Among the many coaching stops for Buccaneers Assistant Coach Tom Moore over more than four decades in the NFL was one season as the Saints' running backs coach in 1997.
Joe Woods, in his first season as the Saints' defensive coordinator, began his NFL coaching career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after more than a decade in the college ranks, serving as the team's defensive quality control coach from 2004-05.
Fred McAfee, the Saints' vice president of player engagement, played 16 years in the NFL as a running back and that included a very brief stop with the Buccaneers in 1999. McAfee appeared in one game for Tampa Bay that season.
Saints Assistant Special Teams Coach Phil Galiano held the same post in Tampa under Head Coach Greg Schiano in 2012-13.

SENIOR COACHING STAFFS

Tampa Bay:

Head Coach Todd Bowles

Offensive Coordinator Liam Coen

Run Game Coordinator/Defensive Line Coach Kacy Rodgers

Pass Game Coordinator/Inside Linebackers Coach Larry Foote
Special Teams Coordinator Thomas McGaughey

New Orleans:

Interim Head Coach Darren Rizzi

Offensive Coordinator Klint Kubiak

Defensive Coordinator Joe Woods

Assistant Special Teams Coach Phil Galiano

KEY 2024 ROSTER ADDITIONS

Buccaneers:

C Graham Barton (1st-round draft pick)
OLB Chris Braswell (2nd-round draft pick)
G Ben Bredeson (UFA)
TE Devin Culp (7th-round draft pick)
S Mike Edwards (W-TEN)
P Trenton Gill (FA)
CB Bryce Hall (UFA…currently on injured reserve)
CB Troy Hill (FA)
RB Bucky Irving (4th-round draft pick)
WR Kameron Johnson (UDFA…currently on injured reserve)
LB Vi Jones (FA)
G Elijah Klein (6th-round draft pick)
WR Jalen McMillan (3rd-round draft pick)
G Royce Newman (W-GB)
S Tykee Smith (3rd-round draft pick)
CB Tavierre Thomas (UFA)
S Jordan Whitehead (UFA)

Saints:

WR Kevin Austin (FA)
DT Khristian Boyd (6th-round draft pick)
LB Jaylan Ford (5th-round draft pick)
T Taliese Fuaga (1st-round draft pick)
LB Willie Gay (UFA)
C Shane Lemieux (FA)
CB Kool-Aid McKinstry (2nd-round draft pick)
WR Bub Means (5th-round draft pick…currently on injured reserve)
G Lucas Patrick (FA)
WR Dante Pettis (FA)
QB Spencer Rattler (5th-round draft pick)
T Oli Udoh (UFA)
WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling (FA)
WR Cedrick Wilson (UFA)
DE Chase Young (UFA)

ADDITIONAL 2024 CHANGES/DEVELOPMENTS OF NOTE

Buccaneers:

As Todd Bowles navigates his third season as the Bucs' head coach he is working with his third offensive coordinator in as many seasons. Last year, Bowles picked former Seattle Quarterbacks Coach Dave Canales to replace Byron Leftwich, but Canales departed this offseason to take over as the head coach of the Panthers. Bowles then turned to Liam Coen, who comes from the Sean McVay coaching tree with the Rams and most recently was the offensive coordinator at the University of Kentucky. Three members of the Bucs' 2023 staff followed Canales to Carolina – Brad Idzik, Harold Goodwin and Joe Gilbert, which led to some other new additions on Bowles staff in 2024. Those include Offensive Line Coach Kevin Carberry, Pass Game Coordinator Josh Grizzard, Wide Receivers Coach Bryan McClendon and Assistant Offensive Line Coach Brian Picucci. In addition, long-time Special Teams Coordinator Keith Armstrong retired in the offseason, so the Bucs brought in Thomas McGaughey as his replacement.
Under Coen, the Buccaneers' offense employs quite a bit more pre-snap shifts and movement than it had in 2023, and Coen also has widened the variety of the types of runs the ground game employees. One of Coen's other key initiatives in an attempt to get a moribund rushing attack going is to give quarterback Baker Mayfield multiple plays to choose from in the huddle and at the line so that the offense runs into unfavorable looks less often.
Despite having tight salary cap restrictions, the Buccaneers made it a priority to retain key players from the 2023 season who were scheduled to hit free agency. General Manager Jason Licht and his staff successfully checked off every item on their list of priorities, beginning with a new two-year deal for franchise icon Mike Evans. That helped bring the team's negotiations with quarterback Baker Mayfield to a conclusion. After Mayfield played the 2023 season on a one-year prove-it deal, his resurgence landed him a lucrative new multi-year contract. The Bucs were also able to re-sign linebacker Lavonte David and kicker Chase McLaughlin. With the other deals in the works, the Bucs used the franchise tag on safety Antoine Winfield Jr. and later inking him to a new contract making him the highest-paid defensive back in the NFL.
All-Pro tackle Tristan Wirfs didn't need a new contract for 2024 but he was entering the final year of his rookie deal and the Buccaneers were highly motivated to lock him in to a new long-term pact. That lengthy process came to a head on August 1, when the two sides agreed on a five-year extension that runs through the 2029 campaign and makes him the highest paid offensive lineman in the NFL.
In March, the Buccaneers traded cornerback Carlton Davis, who had started 75 games over six seasons with the team, to the Detroit Lions for a third-round pick in this year's draft. The Buccaneers eventually used that pick to select Washington wide receiver Jalen McMillan.
In a Week Seven Monday Night Football game against Baltimore, the Buccaneers' offense took several serious blows when both Chris Godwin and Mike Evans suffered significant injuries. Godwin, who at the time was leading the NFL with 50 receptions, sustained a dislocated ankle that will keep him out for at least the rest of the regular season, though he has spoken of the possibility of returning for the postseason if the Buccaneers make it into the field. Evans, who caught his 100th career touchdown pass earlier in the Ravens game, incurred a hamstring injury that caused him to miss three games before his return in Week 12.

Saints:

The Saints have a new man running the show since the last time they played the Buccaneers, as the team elected to relieve Head Coach Dennis Allen of his duties on November 4, one day after a loss at Carolina dropped the team to 2-7 on the season. The Saints had opened the 2024 campaign with blowout wins over Carolina and Dallas but then lost their next seven. That streak left Allen with an 18-25 record in two-plus years at the helm in New Orleans, following the retirement of Sean Payton. The Saints promoted their special teams coordinator, Darren Rizzi, to interim head coach and immediately won their next two games before then dropping four of the next five.
Just one day after making that coaching change, the Saints also parted ways with one of their long-time stars, trading cornerback Marshon Lattimore to Washington. The Saints also included a 2025 fifth-round pick in the deal and got back 2025 picks in the third, fourth and sixth rounds. Lattimore made four Pro Bowls in his first five seasons in New Orleans, though injuries have cut into his playing time since 2022. He had 15 interceptions during his tenure with the Saints, two returned for touchdowns.
New Orleans has also made a long list of other roster moves since the Bucs visited the Superdome in Week Six. That includes placing the following players on injured reserve at some point: defensive back Will Harris; wide receivers Rashid Shaheed, Chris Olave and Bub Means, running back Kendre Miller; cornerback Paulson Adebo and tight end Taysom Hill. Harris and Miller have since returned to the active roster and the Saints also got offensive linemen Shane Lemieux and Erik McCoy from reserve lists since that Week Six contest, with McCoy returning to his starting spot at center. DE Tanoh Kpassagnon was also recently activated from the reserve/PUP list.
New Orleans made a change at offensive coordinator in the 2024 offseason for the first time in 15 years. Pete Carmichael had held that position since 2009, but the Saints chose to replace him with Klint Kubiak, who had most recently been the passing game coordinator for the 49ers in 2023. Kubiak had one previous stint as an OC, holding that position for the Minnesota Vikings in 2021.
The Saints also largely reworked their offensive coaching staff around Kubiak. New to the staff are Clancy Barone (tight ends), John Benton (offensive line), Rick Dennison (senior offensive assistant), Derrick Foster (running backs), Andrew Janocko (quarterbacks), Denarius McGhee (assistant wide receivers) and Keith Williams (wide receivers).
The Saints' offensive line, long the powerful engine for a prolific offense, has undergone significant changes in 2024. Versatile lineman James Hurst retired in May and right tackle Ryan Ramczyk was placed on the reserve/PUP list in July, putting him out for the entire season while he tries to recover from a significant knee injury. Starting guard Andrus Peat, a three-time Pro Bowler, left in free agency for the Raiders. Three games into the current season, starting center Erik McCoy was forced to injured reserve with a groin injury, though as noted above he later returned to action. The Saints prepared for the expected absence of Ramczyk by using the 14th overall pick in this year's draft on Oregon State's Taliese Fuaga to play left tackle and moving Trevor Penning to right tackle.
The Saints finally parted ways in the offseason with wide receiver Michael Thomas, who led the NFL in receptions in 2018 and 2019 and was the Associated Press Offensive Player of the Year in 2019 after catching 149 passes for 1,725 yards and nine touchdowns. An ankle injury interrupted Thomas' run of dominance early in 2020 and he appeared in just 20 games and recorded 95 catches over the last four seasons. New Orleans cut Thomas on March 13 and designated him as post-June 1 cut to spread out his dead cap hit.
Quarterback Jameis Winston sought a new home in free agency after four years with the Saints, eventually signing with the Cleveland Browns. New Orleans restocked at the position by using a fifth-round pick in this year's draft on Spencer Rattler. Defensive lineman Malcolm Roach, who started just five games over four seasons in New Orleans, left for a two-year deal in Denver. Other members of the Saints' 2023 defense who moved on included cornerbacks Lonnie Johnson (Houston) and Isaac Yiadom (San Francisco) and outside linebacker Zack Baun (Philadelphia).
The Saints were not particularly active in free agency beyond the addition of defensive end Chase Young on a one-year deal, but they did keep a couple of their own potential free agents with new contracts for safety Johnathan Abram (currently on the practice squad) and fullback Adam Prentice. The Saints also locked in a couple of their core defensive players through the 2025 season with extensions for linebacker Demario Davis and safety Tyrann Mathieu. Around midseason, the Saints also signed running back Alvin Kamara to a two-year contract extension.

INJURY REPORT

Key:

DNP: Did not participate in practice

LP: Limited participation in practice

FP: Full participation in practice

NL: Not listed

Buccaneers:

TE Devin Culp (ribs) – WEDS: LP; THURS: FP; FRI: FP. Game Status: Not listed.
LB Lavonte David (rest) – WEDS: NL; THURS: NL; FRI: DNP. Game Status: Not listed.
CB Jamel Dean (knee) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: DNP; FRI: DNP. Game Status: Out.
TE Payne Durham (quadriceps) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: LP; FRI: FP. Game Status: Not listed.
WR Mike Evans (rest) – WEDS: LP; THURS: DNP; FRI: LP. Game Status: Not listed.
DL Will Gholston (knee) – WEDS: LP; THURS: LP; FRI: DNP. Game Status: Questionable.
RB Bucky Irving (shoulder/shin) – WEDS: LP; THURS: LP; FRI: FP. Game Status: Not listed.
TE Cade Otton (knee) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: LP; FRI: LP. Game Status: Doubtful.
WR Sterling Shepard (hamstring/foot) – WEDS: LP; THURS: LP; FRI: LP. Game Status: Questionable.
S Antoine Winfield Jr. (knee) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: LP; FRI: DNP. Game Status: Out.
T Tristan Wirfs (foot/knee) – WEDS: LP; THURS: LP; FRI: LP. Game Status: Not listed.

Saints:

QB Derek Carr (left hand) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: DNP; FRI: DNP. Game Status: Out.
LB Willy Gay (shoulder) – WEDS: NL; THURS: LP; FRI: LP. Game Status: Questionable.
TE Juwan Johnson (knee) – WEDS: LP; THURS: LP; FRI: LP. Game Status: Questionable.
RB Alvin Kamara (groin) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: DNP; FRI: DNP. Game Status: Doubtful.
RB Kendre Miller (concussion) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: DNP; FRI: DNP. Game Status: Out.
WR Chris Olave (head) – WEDS: FP; THURS: FP; FRI: FP. Game Status: Questionable.
DE Payton Turner (ankle) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: DNP; FRI: LP. Game Status: Questionable.
WR Marques Valdes-Scantling) – WEDS: LP; THURS: FP; FRI: FP. Game Status: Not listed.
LB Pete Werner (concussion) – WEDS: DNP; THURS: LP; FRI: FP. Game Status: Questionable.

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