New Orleans holds the conference tiebreaker, so the Panthers would have to win out and have the Saints lose at St. Louis this week or at home to Tampa Bay in Week 17 to win their first division title since 2008.
"To know we can go out and play better and not have that happen 鈥?that's very disappointing," linebacker Thomas Davis said. "But it's not the end of the world. We're sitting at 9-4 right now,
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