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There's one play Sean Payton thinks about more than others in the New Orleans Saints' playoff loss to the Minnesota Vikings, and it's not the play that gets the most attention from fans.

The coach talked about that play in a video clip shared Sunday (July 15) by NFL Network. In the clip, Payton answers a question from his daughter, Meghan.

"I want to go back to Minnesota," Meghan said at the start of her question. "I hope that's ok," she added, as she asked noted that "there's way more than one play that changes the game, but if you could, what would you do differently in that game?"



Payton smiled and joked that he had been enjoying his vacation playing this weekend at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Lake Tahoe, Nev., up until that direct question from his daughter.

He then answered the question, saying that "for someone who is really studying that game, there was a third-and-1 before we kicked that field goal" to hold a 24-23 lead.

"We weren't able to convert that third-and-1," the coach added. "We kicked a field goal with 20-some seconds left in the game. Had we been able to just get the one yard, we would have easily been able to run the clock down to 3 seconds and hopefully kick the field goal and not give the Vikings another possession. So I would say that would be a play I beat myself up over, or we think about a lot and that mattered in that game a lot."