Cam Jordan To Break Once-Touchable Saints Record Vs. Seahawks
The New Orleans Saints will take on the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in a Week 3 showdown and there's some history on the docket for eight-time Pro Bowler Cameron Jordan.
When Jordan takes the field on Sunday against the Seahawks at Lumen Field, he will set a new franchise record for games played with the Saints. Jordan tied the great Drew Brees Week 2 and now will take a step forward and claim the milestone for himself.
The New Orleans Saints will have some history on Sunday
This is a pretty big deal. It's not often you see a guy spend this much time with one team. Brees didn't actually begin his career in New Orleans, he came over to the franchise ahead of the 2006 season and was with the team the rest of the way throughout his career. Jordan was drafted by the Saints and has spent his entire career here. For Brees, he passed Hall of Fame kicker Morten Andersen for the record. Andersen played 196 games as a member of the Saints.
Brees passed him and made all the way to 228 before calling it a career. Jordan will reach 229 on Sunday and if he can stay healthy throughout the regular season, the highest he could reach this season would be 243. This is Jordan's 15th season in the NFL. With Brees passing Andersen, it was tough to believe someone would be able to pass him. In this day and age, you don't see many players spend their entire careers with one franchise. That's what Jordan has done. And, at 36 years old and showing no signs of slowing down, he could wrap up his career -- whenever he decides to call it quits -- with a nearly-impossible to reach record by the time he's done.
If someone wants to reach Jordan now, they have to play 15 years with the Saints, which is unlikely. But, even more so, he could keep going. What if he reaches a 16th or 17th season? All in all, Jordan is going to set a record on Sunday that won't be touched for years to come.
Cody Mauch injury just left the Bucs between a rock and a hard place
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers might be 2-0 to start the year for the fifth straight season, but it's come at a price. The Bucs are getting absolutely decimated by injuries and we're only two games into the 2025 campaign. Not good.
The latest injury to hit the Bucs unfortunately also came at the expense of their offensive line, which is already a banged up unit. Right guard Cody Mauch is out for the season with a knee injury in an event that seemingly came out of nowhere.
This made the Bucs offensive line situation go from bad to worse, as Tampa is already without starting left tackle Tristan Wirfs while right tackle Luke Goedeke exited Week 2's match-up against the Texans after just two drives. Now the Bucs will be without their starting left tackle, right guard, and right tackle as they open their 2025 season at home on Sunday against the 0-2 Jets.
Bucs OL situation goes from bad to worse after Cody Mauch season-ending injury
With Wirfs, Mauch, and Goedeke out, that means Tampa's starting offensive line will probably consist of Graham Barton at left tackle, Michael Jordan at left guard, Ben Bredeson at center, either Dan Feeney or Elijah Klein at right guard, and Charlie Heck at right tackle. That is... not an ideal lineup, to say the least.
The Jets have recorded five sacks in their first two games and former first-rounder Will McDonald IV leads their defense with two of those five sacks. New York might not have a good team but Bucs fans know better than anyone how a bad offensive line can completely change the game (cough Super Bowl 55 cough). They might be on the other end of that this Sunday, unfortunately.
The good news is that while Mauch is going to miss the entire year, Wirfs should be returning in the next few weeks and the hope is that Goedeke can return by the end of the season as well. One thing is for certain though and it's that Baker Mayfield is going to be feeling the pressure week in and week out.
