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Saints' Sean Payton: Fourth-and-20 blitz was 'my call'

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"This is a younger team, and we want to win these games," Sean Payton said. "I’m still mad that we didn’t win." Patrick Semansky/AP
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    • Covered Saints for eight years at New Orleans Times-Picayune
    • Previously covered LSU football, San Francisco 49ers
    • Iowa native and University of Iowa graduate
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Had this been a "real" game, the only thing we’d be talking about right now is how the New Orleans Saints defense managed to blow a four-point lead with 45 seconds remaining on fourth-and-20.