This year in New Orleans has been a roller coaster ride for Saints quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. Yesterday, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 5, was easily, in roller coaster terminology, the “first drop.” A 31-24 win over a surging divisional opponent in front of a home crowd not completely in his corner.
The first drop, as part of a roller coaster ride, is the initial hill cars are taken to the top of by some means other than gravity. Typically it’s reached with a chain drive with all of the accompanying racket being part of what elevates the tension and excitement for riders ahead of what’s to come next.