USA Today Saints Wire | Saints sink Bucs, sweep Tom Brady for the first time in his NFL career

AsylumGuido · 11-09-2020, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by jeanpierre

May be wrong, but isn't there a stat floating out there that teams that have swept division opponents during the regular season choke against them in the playoffs?

Know it happen to the Saints where we lost to the ATL in playoffs...

In 2017 some pundits were claiming this when we were to face Carolina in the Wild Card round after sweeping them during the regular season. We beat them 31-26 to make it three for three.

The only time we have faced the Falcons in the playoffs was 1991. We split during the regular season and they beat us in the Wild Card. We also faced the Rams in 2000 Wild Card after splitting with them in the regular season. That was our first playoff win.

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AsylumGuido 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Bossier City, LA Posts: 26,622	Re: USA Today Saints Wire \| Saints sink Bucs, sweep Tom Brady for the first time in his NFL career Originally Posted by jeanpierre May be wrong, but isn't there a stat floating out there that teams that have swept division opponents during the regular season choke against them in the playoffs? Know it happen to the Saints where we lost to the ATL in playoffs... In 2017 some pundits were claiming this when we were to face Carolina in the Wild Card round after sweeping them during the regular season. We beat them 31-26 to make it three for three. The only time we have faced the Falcons in the playoffs was 1991. We split during the regular season and they beat us in the Wild Card. We also faced the Rams in 2000 Wild Card after splitting with them in the regular season. That was our first playoff win.