In Week 18 last season, the last time the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers played, Tampa Bay called a pass play in the closing seconds of a 27-19 win in order to push receiver Mike Evans to his eighth consecutive 1,000-yard season .

The play was not without some minor controversy, as the Buccaneers were in position to kneel out the clock. Earlier this summer, during an appearance on the “Pardon My Take” Podcast , Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield was asked if he regretted anything about the play.

“I hate the Saints, absolutely not, no,” Mayfield said. “We were making the playoffs. It’s a situation where you take a knee, go to the playoffs. But we decided to throw it on first and 10 just to get Mike the 1,000 yards.”

Asked about that comment by Tampa’s media corps

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