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Saints beat Bucs, keep playoff race wide open.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
NEW ORLEANS _ A loss Sunday night would have been crushing for the New Orleans Saints on Sunday night. Had they lost to NFC South-leading Tampa Bay, it would have put them three games back.
It's a whole new ballgame now.
"It's big," said running back Deuce McAllister, who returned from a one-game absence because of a sprained right ankle. "It's a statement game for us. It gives us our confidence back and we don't fall out of the race in the division."
They earned back a measure of pride for three poor primetime performances last season, handing the Buccaneers a 23-20 defeat in front of a boisterous, sold-out Superdome crowd of 68,226. The Saints improved to 8-4.
Their playoff hopes were helped by a pair of losses by teams immediately behind them in the NFC wild-card standings. The New York Giants lost to Tennessee in overtime and St. Louis was all but eliminated by a defeat at the hands of Philadelphia.
The Saints, playing in throwback jerseys from their inaugural 1967 season, moved a game closer to Tampa Bay (9-3) and maintained pace with Atlanta, which pulled out a victory in overtime against Minnesota. The Falcons remain a half-game ahead of the Saints, but now the top three teams in the NFC South are within one game of each other.
It wasn't easy, with a late, long Bucs touchdown drive making things interesting. The Saints got the ball back with 2:49 to play but without starting quarterback Aaron Brooks.
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