Sean Payton was back on the opposing sideline of Raymond James Stadium on Sunday, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers really wish he hadn’t been.
After a hot start to the season that saw the Bucs crush the Commanders and get a win over the Lions, they followed the siren song of national praise right into a trap game. Rather than the easy victory everyone was predicting, Tampa Bay met Payton and his knack for always knocking them down a few pegs.
Payton took just one drive to remind the Bucs of how badly he owned them when he was the head coach in New Orleans. Bo Nix carved up Tampa Bay’s secondary for an opening drive touchdown, and then juked Anthony Nelson into another dimension a drive later to make it 14-0…