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Sometimes a negative officiating decision benefits your team. Sometimes it kills your team.
New Orleans has lived both parties.
In Week 16, an undesirable Madden NFL Overdrive Coins interference contact Steelers cornerback Joe Haden greatly helped the Saints beat the Steelers, exiling the Steelers in the playoffs and giving the Saints home field within the NFC half on the draw.
On Sunday, the Los Angeles Rams’ Nickell Robey-Coleman (the nickel back, one assumes) grotesquely interfered with all the Saints’ Tommylee Lewis (doubtless named after Motley Crue’s drummer) but no flag was thrown. It was the 4th quarter. The Saints got an area goal, not much of a touchdown, and lost the NFC final in overtime.
New Orleans Coach Sean Buy Madden NFL Overdrive Coins Payton was apoplectic: He said his team will “probably never overcome it.”
That’s a tad dramatic. But there are carryover.
For example, if Haden isn’t flagged as well as the Steelers win at New Orleans, their playoff destiny is their hands for Week 17 as well as perhaps Antonio Brown doesn’t mentally implode, then go AWOL.