Jameis Winston against the guy who took his job, on the team that drafted him first overall. Tom Brady against the team that humbled him in a two-game sweep for the first time in his decades-long NFL career. The Saints with an opportunity to bring the Buccaneers’ long offseason celebrating their Super Bowl win to a screeching halt. A Week 1 matchup in Tampa Bay is boiling over with potential storylines, but NBC Sports’ Peter King doesn’t want any of it.
“To schedule the Saints or Bears or Giants here (all Bucs home foes this year) doesn’t seem smart because any of them could be a game that’s over by halftime,” King mused during his recent Football Morning in America column.