I think it was against the Saints and they pasted 28 points or so on them at the end of their second season.
Just before the paper sack days.
(nb, I am working from memory as a Rams fan who worried little about th ‘aints in those days.)
Favorite quotation from John McKay, 1st Bucs coach:
Q: What do you think of your team’s execution?
A: I’m all for it!!
Hard to believe as bad as those early Bucs teams were, they actually did make it to the 1979 NFC Championship Game.
“They couldn’t run, they couldn’t pass, and they couldn’t block. But they made up for it all by not tackling!”
Jim McKay
They beat the Saints after 26 consecutive opening franchise losses, 33-14 in 1977. I believe they returned 3 Archie Manning passes for touchdowns. The Bucs actually won the next week, also, against the Caridinals.
This came at the end of 2 Hank Stram seasons where the Saints never did much with him as the coach.
The next 2 years were actually the 2 best of the Saints Franchise to that point, where they were in playoff contention 2/3 of the way through the year. Late season collpases with some heartbreaking losses left the Saints with mediocre records in each year.
1980 was the bag year.
I bet you forget that the Bucs actually went to the NFC playoff game in 1979.