METAIRIE, La. — Saints running back Tim Hightower isn't about to assume New Orleans' ground game will return to its usual form in Tampa on Sunday — even if last week's anemic performance looked more like an anomaly than a trend.
"You can't look at what you did three weeks ago or what you did a month ago or at the beginning of the season," Hightower said. "You have to look at, 'Hey, why didn't we get it done this (past) week.' We've got to figure out what we didn't do last week and get it corrected."
Hightower and several other key members of the Saints' offense echoed the same theory about what caused the dropoff in production on the ground in a 28-13 loss to the Detroit Lions last Sunday, when New Orleans rushed for only 50 yards.