Challenging situations nothing new for New Orleans Saints
 

The defending Super Bowl champions realized they were likely seeing the last of their Superdome home Sunday and wanted to give those loyal Who Dats something to remember.

But what the Saints left behind was a dreadful 23-13 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a bunch that not only needed a victory, but also needed some other things to happen to make it into the playoffs.
It's not fair to say the Bucs won because they had more incentive than their enemy.

The Bucs won because they were not only the better team, but, on this Sunday, the better team with the better quarterback, a guy by the name of Josh Freeman.

But, said Sunday's losing quarterback in so many words, "do not despair."
"I have every bit as much confidence in this team as I had in last year's," Drew Brees said.
The MVP of Super Bowl XLIV did not finish a game in which the offense scored the fewest points it had in any game in an 11-5 season.

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