Division race heating up as midseason nears



By Mike Triplett

They say you can't win 'em all.

The season is a marathon, not a sprint. You've got to take the bad with the good. Any one of those clichés can help the Saints get over their nasty 35-22 loss to the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday at the Superdome.

But none of them applies to this next game.

The Saints will travel to face their NFC South rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, and one of the NFL's favorite mantras is that divisional games count as two.

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