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NEW ORLEANS -- Sean Payton pulled the plug on the New Orleans Saints' regular season at the 11:19 mark of Sunday's finale, even though his team had just kicked a field goal to close within a touchdown of Tampa Bay.
His assistant coaches had an eye on a different scoreboard, the one in Atlanta, where the Falcons were routing the hapless Carolina Panthers by four touchdowns, thus clinching the NFC South Division crown and leaving the Saints locked into the wild-card playoff berth they clinched the week before.
And even though Buccaneers tailback LeGarrette Blount fumbled three plays later to give the Saints the ball at the Tampa Bay 37, it was backup quarterback Chase Daniel -- not Drew Brees -- who took the field with a chance to tie the game.
He didn't. And it didn't matter, either.
At that point, the regular season was over -- and the postseason had begun.
"I understood the reason," Brees said of sitting out nearly the entire fourth quarter of the Saints' 23-13 loss at the Superdome. "It's all about the playoffs. This is what you play for."
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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/02/saints-play-for-playoffs-against-bucs/
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