The New Orleans Saints will play the Seattle Seahawks in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on NBC.

The Seahawks defeated the St. Louis Rams 16-6 Sunday night to win the NFC West title.

The New York Jets-Indianapolis Colts will play Saturday night.

Thank Nola.com for the info.

By Jeff Duncan, The Times-Picayune

The New Orleans Saints will enter the NFC playoffs as the fifth seed and will take on the winner of St. Louis Rams at Seattle Seahawks game next week following today’s 23-13 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the win by Atlanta against Carolina.

More concerning for the Saints is the fact that Chris Ivory, Jeremy Graham and Malcolm Jenkins left the game in the first half with injury. We’ll probably get an update on that later this evening or on Monday.

Drew Brees was 22-of-38 for 196 yards the Saints. Running back Reggie Bush had a good game, rushing for 70 yards on nine carries.

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By Mike Triplett, The Times-Picayune

Jeff Charleston and Marvin Mitchell are the ultimate role players for the New Orleans Saints, and Monday night their role was to make the biggest play of the biggest win of the season.

Charleston reached up to strip the ball from Atlanta tailback Michael Turner a foot short of the goal line early in the third quarter, and Mitchell recovered the fumble.

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