According to my logic, and what I know to be the tiebreaking procedures, the Saints should have moved up to the #2 seed in the NFC, even with the loss yesterday.
Heres why:
CHI 8-1 #1 Seed
NO 6-3 Conf 5-1 #2 Seed
SEA 6-3 Conf 5-2 #3 Seed
NYG 6-3 Conf 5-2 #4 Seed
HOWEVER, I sorted the conference standings on ESPN.com's standings page and got this:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/standings?season=2006&breakdown=2&split=0
They have Seattle at #2 and NO at #3. Can someone explain why they would win the tiebreaker? We havent played them head to head and i was close to 100% sure that the second tiebreaker in playoff seeding is record within the conference.