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Each week on Tuesday, all of the SB Nation NFL blogs will be polling their readers to determine which team had the Victory of the Week. On Wednesday, we'll post the overall winner on SB Nation's NFL page. You may base your selection on any criteria you'd like.

I'm changing it up a bit this week and letting you guys choose the winner of our Sprint Game Ball of the Week right on the spot and right after the game.

Here are all of your options to choose from for this weeks game ball:

• Robert Meachem - 10 catches for 101 yards
• Pierre Thomas - 19 carries for 63 yards, 7 catches for 39 yards, 1 TD
• Drew Brees - 35/49, 302 yards, 1 TD, 2 INT
• Will Smith - 3 tackles, 1 sack, good pressure all night
• Jonathan Vilma - 5 tackles, fumble recovery
• The entire Saints defense 

Use this thread for all your post-game celebration as well. 

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Each time I have to write one of these I always try to do something different and unique to keep things interesting and fresh. Originally I was going to give it to Sean Payton this week, an unconventional choice since he didn't actually play in the game. But I'll be damned if Chris Ivory hasn't been tearing it up lately on the field and deserves to be mentioned in this post. So this week I'm going to give out two game balls. That's right! Two balls, right before your eyes and all for your reading enjoyment. How's that for shaking things up? Can you handle two huge balls this morning?

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Normally this is where I highlight and discuss further the Saints player you guys voted as the player of the game this past week. This week that would be Jabari Greer, but damn if the defense as a whole hasn't been playing lights out. And since we're at the bye and just past the halfway point of the season, I figured what better time to shake things up in our sponsored post and give everyone on that side of the ball props. Saints defense...this post's for you! Sorry, Jabari. You still kick ass, too. 

By now you've probably heard that the Saints have the best pass defense in the league, limiting offenses to just 166 yards per game through the air. My sources confirm that information to be 100 thousand-trillion-million percent accurate. So can we please just take a moment to marvel at how amazing that is; at how incredibly far this defense has come? This was a team that gave up 245 passing yards a game four years ago, which was bad enough for second worst in the league. Since then, it's gotten progressively better. Damn, that's hot!

My favorite part behind all this lovely defensive talk, however, is that somehow, someway Gregg Williams has been able to work his magic while dealing with myriad injuries to starters and plugging in guys off the bench. Because it's not about talent with this team so much as it's about having a solid game plan being executed by a well coached group of motivated players each week. 

That's enough from me. I'll let the numbers tell the rest of the story. Make the jump for some more Saints defensive stats that might make you tingle in your pants.

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The rules of our sponsorship with Sprint state that I have to give out a game ball this week. To be honest with you however, I really didn't feel like it after the Scott Fujita Bowl this Sunday against the Browns. To make a point - because I live in a delusional world where the entire team and coaching staff actually reads every post I write and values my opinion - I was going to claim that nobody deserves a game ball this week because their performance, as a team, was incredibly sub-par.

But I figured that wouldn't be fair to the few players who actually showed up to play football last Sunday, so we're giving one out. It's going to Marques Colston and you know exactly why.

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If there was anything positive to take away from the Saints crushing loss to the Cardinals this past Sunday it has got to be the play of rookie first-round draft pick Patrick Robinson. 

I noted it in my post-game wrap-up on Monday morning as one of the only three good things to take away from the loss...

Patrick Robinson was making some pretty nice tackles out there, leading the team actually, and probably turning in his best performance to date. 

Jeff Duncan also gives Robinson his due in his weekly post-game film study...

PLAYER OF THE GAME: You had to search pretty hard to find one on the Saints sideline, but Patrick Robinson was certainly deserving. The rookie cornerback was on the spot, making his first career start for the injured Tracy Porter. He responded with a solid game, leading the Saints in tackles and recording a pass breakup.    

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The votes have been tallied and Lance Moore has overwhelmingly been chosen by all of you to earn our first official Canal Street Chronicles Game Ball of the Week. Out of 437 total votes, Lance Moore earned 333 of them or 76%. Not even close. 

Didn't know you were voting for a special award? Neither did I. But each week I've got to hand out a game ball as part of a Sprint sponsored series of posts and since you guys always vote for a Saints player of the game each week anyway, I figured why not just blend the two together. Damn, I'm good. 

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