This is not rocket science: The New Orleans Saints offense goes as quarterback Tyler Shough does.

There were moments of brilliance from the rookie Sunday against the Miami Dolphins, and those cannot be dismissed because those flashes of high-level traits are evidence that the Saints can build around him. But moments are not enough to win NFL games, not consistently, anyway.

The Saints went to the locker room at halftime with 63 net yards of offense . They went three and out on their first three drives, Shough was sacked and lost a fumble on the fourth play of their fourth drive, then they went three and out again on their fifth drive. It took 32 minutes of game time for the Saints to gain more than 10 yards on an offensive play.

The sluggish start certainly wasn’t all on Shough, w

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