Kellen Moore recaps loss | Saints-Buccaneers Postgame | 2025 NFL Week 8

time goal line stop. Uh the turnover before half that they created. Uh I thought that group did did a lot of good. And if you’d say the box score looked like it is on their offense, I feel like we we had a chance in this game. And so uh teams battled offensively at the end day. We turned it all over four times. Um we didn’t do enough good. We didn’t do enough good on offense to give oursel a chance. And uh that’s the unfortunate part of this thing. And so uh you know, we got a lot of stuff to work through and improve and get better at. And uh that’s the journey we get to take. So going to to Yeah, we just need to find a way to create something on offense. Has more to do with the offense collectively. Uh we’re just not executing and playing at a high enough standard and we got to find a way to to move the football consistently, protect the football, and score points. And so, uh you know, this is a pure full offensive evaluation point. Um we’re just not we’re not there. I think we just got to evaluate this whole thing um in the next 48 hours on offense. uh find the solutions that make give us the best chance to win. Thought Tyler went in there and, you know, he looked the part. He he made some plays. Uh the one interception was unfortunate. Uh gave us a chance to convert there. And so, um you know, we we’ll obviously make that evaluation here quickly and make some decisions moving forward, but uh you know, this had more to do with the whole offense just not playing well enough and hopefully trying to generate some form of a spark there. Um unfortunately, it wasn’t able to be done. before the season said a guy no need to worry about pulling him or anything like that but is maybe a straw that breaks the camel’s back as far as performance this is just a again I don’t this has the so much to do with the entire offense we’re not playing well enough uh I got to coach better I got to find the solutions I’m not doing a good enough job obviously and um you know trying to generate a spark uh Spencer I thought you know he has done plenty of good through the course of this season when you look at it from a bigger perspective um we didn’t move the ball well enough we create some turnovers in this game unfortunately and so uh we need to find a way to uh get the thing going and um you know that’s our project and that’s our efforts moving forward is to find those solutions moving forward with however it looks the decision to make the change when you did because obviously you came out of halftime and Spencer had that first drive so was something that happened on that yeah I just felt like I just felt like we were close uh we just weren’t making enough we weren’t getting it going there was just there was not enough on offense and so I just felt like I was trying to create a spark try and create something that felt a little different. Uh see if it would provide us with the urgency to execute at a higher level and play cleaner football. And um there’s some little moments in there, some good plays, but uh not enough collectively. Do you feel that the change gave you what you were looking for? Um ultimately we weren’t able to really get anything else going. Uh unfortunately I thought we moved the ball. There were some spurts where we moved the ball okay and then uh unfortunately we just aren’t able to execute over the course of a drive. And so uh you know I got to you know this is on me. I got to find a better solution here. and um put oursel in better situations to be successful because we’re just we’re not there yet. How difficult is it for a rookie quarterback to come into a situation like that? Yeah, it’s never easy to Todd and Tampa, they’ve always done a great job on defense. It’s a challenge. Um felt like, you know, he he hung in there. Tyler hung in there. I thought he battled. Um you know, we’ll see how this thing progresses. What do you feel I mean, you’re putting a lot on yourself in the midst of all this offense, but what do you feel you should be doing better or different? Yeah, I I got to find the solution to so that we can execute at a higher level, be more consistent and protect the football. And so, um, you know, we we got to be a cleaner football team and, you know, in particular on offense. You know, certainly showed up a lot today. And so, uh, you know, that’s on me. I got to do a better job of this. Um, we’re not there. We’re not executing at a high enough level. And so, uh, I got to find the components and the pieces and, you know, from a schematic standpoint that’ll allow us to do that. Spencer wasn’t able to bounce back of the turnovers he had last week. You know, the the ball security one was just, you know, obviously protecting the football out in space. You know, guys are coming from be from uh you know, in pursuit and uh you got to be ready. There’s always that guy that’s coming from the backside and um that was an unfortunate one. And then the backed up one, I thought the guy made a tremendous play. Um but again, we got we got to protect the football and that’s an unfortunate se sequence there. Do you have a point at any time in your career where you’ve had this kind of stretch, eight turnovers in two games? And does there become like a snowball effect with turnovers? Great question. Defenses sometimes create those snowball effects. Unfortunately, we’re in that. So, the facts are the facts. Uh we’re turning the ball over too much. And so, um you know, it’s fair to view it that way. Um has it happened in your career? Obvious obviously, we’ve all gone through these moments. Um we got to come out of it a much uh cleaner, higher efficient football team, particularly on offense. And so, uh, again, we just we just didn’t do enough winning football. You’ve done a pretty good job of not letting the the quarterback thing become the story. The other guy behind the other, like, oh, that’s pretty quiet. Like, now that the door’s open, like, how do you not how do you how do you keep it like so it’s not a thing that becomes like divisive or, you know, distracting or Yeah, we’ll navigate this thing over the next 48 hours, put oursel in position to have a good week, get ready to roll. Um, again, I’m not into flip-flopping quarterbacks and all this sort of stuff. Again, this had a just an element of, you know, lately not executing high enough football and not playing well enough on offense and trying to create a spark. And so, um, you know, I’m not into this back and forth game, but we do have to make some decisions here moving forward really as a whole offense collectively with a lot of, you know, with a lot of positions. So, are you pick one or the other or would there be any sort of competition this week? Yeah. No, we we’ll have to make a decision and we have to get the reps uh allocated properly so someone has a chance to be successful on Sunday. Kell, how would you describe the mood in the locker room right now? Yeah, frustration. Um, guys are battling. Uh, I love this group. This group, uh, competes every way. You know, you always talk about the play style and the physicality and the finish and, um, those components are out there. And so, that’s the that’s the tough part. Uh, we just got to play cleaner. We got to play better. We got to play to a higher standard. And so, um, you know, the frustration is, you know, there’s not the consistency in all three phases where they can all complement each other. Uh, I thought again, our defense, you know, there were some really good plays in there. they they had a drive or two that they kind of got some some momentum going, but I thought our guys battled. Um, you know, if you looked at the box score of theirs, I’d say, you know, we’d have a heck of a chance in this game. And I thought teams wise, we battled as well. And so, um, there were moments on offense, you know, certainly there were moments and gave us gave us some momentum at times, but um, I just got to find find the solution that works best for us. Are the turnovers that make a difference in Spencer’s play the last two weeks or maybe I think turnovers obviously make make a huge impact on this game. uh it’s popped up. Um again, we got to we got to just execute at a higher level, protect the football. There’s hard downs in this league. We got to find find some solutions there, whether it be third downs, red zone, put oursel in these challenging situations and come up successfully. And so, um again, we’ll do this collectively as an offense. I got to I got to lead the way and help these guys and put them in better positions. It seemed like Tampa was extra aggressive punching at the ball, but you’ve seen is that something that maybe they saw on tape, guys. I think they’ve always done an excellent job of it. Uh Todd’s defense has always attacked the football a really high level. Uh I do think when you create turnovers, uh when your offense, you know, has turnovers, you know, it’s the old, uh, you know, they they see it in the waters and, uh, they see that there’s an opportunity presented there and the defense sees that, you know, it’s close and if we can keep attacking it, you know, odds say based off evidence that’s previously happened that we’re going to get this football at some point. So, um, you know, we just got to address it and, you know, kind of get ahead of this thing because it’s been a couple weeks now. What did you tell Spencer to shut down? Yeah, I I told him what what I told you guys. I’m trying to create a spark here. I’m trying to create something on offense. Um, you know, hang in there. You know, I love Spence. I love Tyler. I love these guys to death. Um, and uh, so these are never easy things. They’re really, really challenging because I know what these guys put into this thing each and every day. But, uh, you know, we’re just trying to find a formula that that works works to our advantage and, uh, you know, we’ll continue to address that. You mentioned concern with the way that the offense was moving or not moving to your liking, but there’s also been sort of this moniker over the course of the season about three-pointers and layups. Are you dissatisfied with the amount of layups that are being taken? Like, do you want to see the offense open more? We got to find explosive plays. Absolutely. We got to put oursel in situations to allow it. uh can’t be playing from behind where teams can play all this fun blitz and coverage game and you play in those situations, it’s going to be really really hard to ever get anything downfield. Um we got to put ourselves in better situations I think more than anything. um you know, we have a shot downfield and we get a sack at the plus 40 as you know that second drive of the game we feel like we’re moving the ball and then you know protection issues and then you know we don’t get our shot downfield and now all of a sudden you know where we’re close to getting a field goal now we’re punting and so uh there’s just too many opportunities that uh we’re not getting those chances. Was the offense limited at all in terms of you go to the rookie hasn’t gotten a ton of reps just was he able to run the entire Yeah, he ran Yeah, he Tyler ran it just fine. Obviously, we’re limited more from the circumstance than anything, but Tyler was not limited in any way. Are you satisfied with the total level of buyin you’re getting from the team? Is everyone still engaged still in this thing? Yeah, I Yeah, I love this group. I love u the way our guys lead, the way our guys practice each and every week. They battle. Um I love the effort that we play with. We just got to play uh some cleaner football and give oursel a chance to be more successful. And so, um, you know, there’s a lot of little details and the leagues, you know, there’s these really small margins in the NFL and we got to find a way to close those low margins and those gaps. You guys are one and seven and it’s the halfway point. You’ve had that evaluate Spencer because you guys drafted Chuck in the second round. How much does that and needing to see him from an evaluation point? Does that I don’t know. We’ll see. Uh, I think the most important thing is what’s going to give us the best chance to go play in LA next week. And so, um, we’ll we’ll make those decisions here shortly. You, um, you talked about what you told Spencer. How did he receive the news? He was going back there. Um, he’s a really special person because, uh, he handles this as well as anyone possibly can. U,, a lot of guys in this league have to navigate these challenging situations and, um, he understands that. And so, um, you know, I have all the respect in the world for how he handled it, how he’s operated. Um, again, there’s been plenty of good through the course of this season. Spencer’s a really good quarterback in this league. uh we haven’t done enough good collectively as an offense to be successful and so uh you know we we got to continue to navigate that. How did penalties play into today’s game from your perspective? Yeah. Yeah, they they obviously impact the game. I think uh you know we got to play cleaner. Too many of the pre-stamps. Again, there’s judgment penalties and those go 50/50 all the time. The pre-amp we got to be able to control. And so um you know it’s just it’s not to our standard, you know, and we’ve had plenty of games where we’ve met our standard, but we’ve slipped a little bit this this week. What do you think of the the goal line? You mentioned a little like I think it was stop penalty. Yeah, incredible performance and uh again when you look at the you know the last few weeks we you know we had a really good one against Chicago uh we’ve had some in the past few weeks you know show up where our guys have just done a really good job of battling each and every play and that’s all we can ask for is every play uh there’s a big time opportunity and uh whether it’s first quarter all the way through the fourth and you know I thought our defense did another really good job there. It took it all the way to the fourth down to finally get it and um in that second drive and so you know they were competing. They were right there. First game this season with no points allowed in the first quarter. Was there something different to the way that you all started the game or was it more of an execution? Our guys executed really well. Um I thought there was urgency effort. Um I thought we we did a really good job early in that game and it was it allowed us to be right in there all the way, you know, second half we’re still in it. Um and then the turnovers, you know, created some opportunities for them. I know you started it off during the week. Do you think Baker’s comments had any impact on the defense? I don’t I don’t know. I don’t know about that. Um, our guys I thought just played played really good football on defense a lot of this game and executed at a much higher level. This is probably a better Wednesday question, but do you have a philosophy on like taking the ball first or defense? Um, we’ve navigated a few different ways this this year. I think the most important thing is we’re trying to get a game and have the lead and uh we’re trying to find a way and so uh taking the football games to the best opportunity to create that and unfortunately we haven’t cap we didn’t capitalize on that this week. All right. All right. Thanks guys.

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46 comments

  4. Coach, you say the same fucking thing EVERY WEEK and yet nothing as changed. Kellen Moore needs to be fired and so does Mickey Loomis. Loomis shouldā€™ve been fired YEARS ago bro. Itā€™s just so fucking bad.

  8. Obviously not a qb problem
    When is kamara gonna get some touches. Running takes pressure off the pass… just saying. TYPICALLY the team who cant move the ball on the ground Doesn't win football games

  12. Spencer isnā€™t the problem but 1-13 we have to see what Shough has to offer. Kellen play calling and horrible roster is. WRs canā€™t make a play, OL canā€™t block, we run Kamara like heā€™s Derrick Henry or something and wonder why heā€™s having one of his worst seasons ever. Juwanā€¦.donā€™t even get me started on him, overpaid and terrible to say the least. Penalty on penalty on penalties, we are 100% an undisciplined team and that falls on coaching. Kellen, stop being the nice guy and start holding these guys accountable. You say the same thing every week and we see minimal progression week over week. Also, we are not the Tush Push Eagles, create better opportunities that can yield big plays instead of 2-4 yds here and there. & sell! A lot of these guys have talent, but may not be the best fit for us.

  14. This dude is stubborn he's not gonna make the switch. I swear Rattler has compromising pics of him. There is no reason to keep playing Rattler. He has no connection to him he's a 5th round pick from the previous staff, not a 1st round pick who's the future Qb of this team. You have your 2nd round pick waiting on the bench with a likely top 3 pick coming up. Let's find out what he's got.

  18. Gotta stop with Divison I-AA College Level play calling . Todd B of Tampa knew your tendencies before you took the Field . You knew he was going to bring the blitzing packages, why didn't you plan for that ??

  19. Juwan Johnson getting paid to much money to keep dropping passes.

    And why is Shaheed WR laughing after a dropped passes and fumbles ? These guys know Coach Moore is to nice and nothing will happen to be benched.

    Zero accountability from ownership all the way down to the Coaching Staff. It's manifesting daily. Trade deadline same old same old no change.

  20. It's looks like the blame needs to be spread out but starting with Kellen Moore….ya need to wake up your Oline, RB, WR, & TE assistants….they are playing very half-ass. I still like Rattler but he made two stupid mistakes and needs more help ….Receivers can't catch or hold on to balls. They needs to put their TE in remedial training or trade him. Ball protection is critical and the offense does not have any flow. Today's game really made me miss the Payton-Brees era.

  22. I'm sorry you guys. Plain and simple truth. I am a hard Saints fan. I've blead Black and Gold since I was born in Charity Hospital down the street from the Super Dome. Took my Fandom to the United States Navy in 1988 and now living in Colorado Springs. Still wearing Black and Gold jerseys on Sunday afternoon. Moore is not a NFL head coach. He's another Kevin Stefanski. I saw this whole scenario playing out when we didn't take Sheduer Sanders at #9. Neither of these QBs are starters or back ups for the NFL! Including Dillon Gabriel. Shouldn't have listened to the dumb ass commissioner. This whole thing would've played out differently with Sheduer. Christian National Bullshit!!!!!

  23. Lose hope in the coach moore and Moore every gameā€¦. Thereā€™s a ton of Great offensive coordinators and donā€™t just make good head coaches

  24. Beginning of the game the blitz pressure on Mayfield rendered him ineffective. The momentum shifted after interception on 10 yard line with TD. After that the defense did not seem to attack Mayfield and when left without pressure he will deliver over and over. The Lions kept the pressure on Mayfield and we should have subbed continually to do this as our defense was in oxygen debt trying to maintain this pressure but could not.
    No matter the pieces, even with a good QB showing, the picture around ANY QB, even an elite one, would not have been better with our offense and defense collectively. Coach Moore knows well being a former QB that Rattler is a better QB but has suffered recently. Moore had to make a change in this game or it would have shed his ability as a coach to deal with issues. Going forward the QB that will play is the one that seems the most ready. I will give a HUGE KUDOS TO COACH MOORE FOR NOT SHAKING THE CONFIDENCE IN EITHER QB BUT BELIEVING IN THEM WHICH WILL MAKE BOTH GO FORWARD WITH BETTER CONFIDENCE AFTER A SUB PAR SHOWING. When a coach does not give up on a player it makes a huge difference in their rebound.

  26. It's just Vanilla play calling. Not to compare, but I remember when Peyton and Brees had a plethora of packages and personnel to keep the defense on their toes. WHERE IS TAYSOM HILL? Use him! He should be on the field EVERY PLAY simply because he is a wild card, that alone distracts the defense. And Rattler has been limited to the play call, they haven't been letting him take shots down the field anyway. We literally might be the worst team in the league. What a fall from grace.

  27. Good luck your season is over maybe 2026 your at the lowest in history among all of the AFC and NFC teams coach your team like Sean Payton did and you might get some where .šŸ˜¢šŸ˜¢šŸ˜¢I still support NO Utilize the right players Taysom Hill and Kamara the right stuff

  31. Start Tyler next game. Get Grupe to start kicking (attempt) 55 yard FGs during the game. Bring Hill and Spencer in for rushing/sneak plays. Trade Kamara to Atlanta, so that he can retire in his hometown.

  33. How is Trevor pinning still on this team? He's been tried at right tackle and left tackle and was a disaster so they place him at guard. He had two consecutive holding penalties on runs yesterday. He should be cut Immediately. No other team would even consider putting him on their practice squad. After watching 45 years of NFL I have never seen a worse offensive lineman.

  34. Where is the run game?? Why did we picked 1st round pick if there is no chance of run game?? No star plays either in defense or offense. Time to move on and get some key depth players..

  36. Kellen Moore isn't the Coach for this team. This team looks exactly like the Dennis Allen Team. Mickey Loomis needs to go. But these easy going prayer circle coaches needs to go. We're soft.

  38. We running the same damn plays with Kamara. Right up the middle everytime. And throw the ball man. OFFENSE HAS TO HOLD ON TO THE DAMN BALL. Fumbles and take aways!!!!

  43. How about getting Kamara more involved in the offense the dude is a Baller give him the ball pass him. The ball come up with better run plays quit running up the middle utilize the talent you have unbelievable

  44. You want to play Shough, just say it, but donā€™t scapegoat Rattler with that Generate a sparkā€, B.S. They are averaging less than 18pts pg.

    ā€œThis team has failed after half-time of almost every game. Thatā€™s a leadership issue at the coaching level.

    This is what a 1 and done coach looks & sounds like.

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