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NEW ORLEANS - A day after being eliminated from the playoffs with a 30-14 loss to the Atlanta Falcons, it didnt take long for New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton to point out the reason.Payton regularly calls the turnover stat the most important in the game. It was against Atlanta, with the Saints committing four of them.For the season, the Saints are minus-11 in turnover margin.You really just keep yourself from having an opportunity to win a game, Payton said. Thats something that I obviously have to look closely at.That close look will come in the off-season.Payton said Monday there wouldnt be any wholesale changes in how the Saints approach the season-ending game at Tampa Bay on Sunday.Those who have played a role in New Orleans going 6-9 will carry a similar responsibility against the Buccaneers, a 2-13 team in position for the No. 1 pick in the draft.Well have our best guys out there and preparing and doing everything we would normally do if we were playing for a playoff spot, Payton said. It wont be a bit different.That means if the Saints finish 7-9, theyd have to eliminate the costly mistakes going into next season.And besides turnovers, the losses have piled up for a myriad of other reasons.The offence scored only 24 points in the final two home games of as the Saints finished with a five-game home losing streak.The Saints havent allowed as many sacks as in 2013, when they gave up 37, but the ones they have given up this season have played a part in the inconstant play.Against Atlanta, which entered last in the league in sacks, the Saints allowed a season-worst five.New Orleans defence didnt hold up when it needed to in key situations.While the Saints have forced 15 fumbles, they have only recovered five of them.A group that finished No. 4 in the NFL last season is ranked 31st in yards allowed. The Saints are 30th in the league on third downs and have given up at least 400 yards seven times.We rarely put together a complete game — offence, defence and special teams, tight end Benjamin Watson said.New Orleans has one more opportunity to put together that complete game.Though Payton said preparation will be similar to any other week, it would be easy for the players to lose focus before heading into the off-season.Those in the locker room on Monday said getting ready for the Buccaneers wont be a problem, however.You cant just sit around and feel sorry for yourself all day, linebacker Parys Haralson said. The season didnt go the way you wanted to, but youve got this last game right here to go and still get to do what you love to do.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL Authentic Breeland Speaks Jersey . The team let Keaton Ellerby, James Wright and Matt Halischuk become unrestricted free agents after declining to make them qualifying offers. 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There was a three-week break between the end of one season (Tour Championship) and the start of another (Frys.com Open). And then the PGA Tour takes a seven-week break before resuming the new season in Kapalua.But is that much different from 10 years ago?The PGA Tour had 44 consecutive weeks of golf in 2004 from Jan. 8 at Kapalua until Nov. 7 at the Tour Championship. That schedule included three tournaments held the same week as World Golf Championships, the B.C. Open opposite the British Open and the Texas Open the same week as the Ryder Cup.The tour had 43 weeks of golf in 2014, with the three-week break built around the Ryder Cup in the early fall and the final tournament Nov. 16 in Mexico. And there were only three opposite-field events the same week as three WGCs (Doral, Firestone, Shanghai).Is the new fall start any different from the old fall finish? Now it starts in California and goes to Las Vegas, Sea Island, two in Asia, one in Mississippi and Mexico. Ten years ago, the lineup after the majors included Hartford, Canada, Tampa and now-defunct tournaments at Disney and 84 Lumber. There also was a WGC thrown in the mix.Go back even further. Twenty years ago, the PGA Tour schedule featured 43 consecutive weeks of tournaments. That was right about the time the WGCs were being discussed, and a decade before the FedEx Cup was even an idea.The biggest change might be the golf that isnt being played.Back in 1994 when the Tour Championship ended (at Olympic Club — those were the days) on Oct. 30, there were six tournaments as part of the silly season. That included the Lincoln-Mercury at Kapalua, the Shark Shootout, Skins Game, JC Penney Mixed-Team Classic and the Diners Club Matches.Either way, there was never a shortage of golf. That much hasnt changed.___HAWAII FIVE-O: A friendship in Hawaii has led to Michelle Wie making her first cameo on a television series.Wie met actor Daniel Dae Kim through mutual friends in Hawaii — Wie was born and raised in Honolulu, while Kim has been living in paradise with his wife and children toward the latter years of his role in the miniseries Lost.Kim played in Wies charity Ping-Pong event after she won an LPGA Tour event in Hawaii this year. He was working on a movie in Atlanta in June when he drove over to Pinehurst No. 2 to watch Wie win her first major at the U.S. Womens Open.That led to Wie getting a small part in an episode of Hawaii 5-0, on which Kim plays Chin Ho Kelly. Wie shot the episode this weekend while in Hawaii. Still unknown is her role, although agent Jamie Kuhn says Wie is playing herself.Wie took an Instagram sitting in a directors chair, flashing the hang loose sign and adding, Officially an actress now with three emoticons crying of laughter.___MASTERS BID ON THE LINE: The Dubai Open on the Asian Tour is the final golf tournament of 2014, and more than a trophy is riding on the outcome.It likely will determine who gets into the Masters.Danny Willett of England has made a late surge with his tie for fourth in Turkey, his victory in the Nedbank Challenge and a tie for fourth last week in the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. He is No. 51 in the world, though he will go to No. 50 ahead of Kevin Streelman in the final ranking of thee year.ddddddddddddommy Fleetwood has eight top-15 finishes in his last 13 events, including a fourth-place finish in Thailand. He is at No. 52.Fleetwood is playing the Dubai Open, and he could pass Willett for the 50th spot in the world ranking depending on how he fares.The top 50 in the final world ranking of the year get invitations to the Masters. Streelman will fall out of the top 50, though he already has earned a spot at Augusta National next year with his victory at the Travelers Championship.___RICKIE IN THE UAE: Rickie Fowler is starting 2015 with back-to-back weeks in the desert — but in two parts of the world.Fowler is the latest American to sign up for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship on Jan. 15-18. After taking the following week off, he will make his U.S. debut in the Phoenix Open before what amounts to a home game at Torrey Pines.Im looking forward to it, Fowler said. Ive never been there. Ive heard good things. The world ranking points are good. And I look at it as an opportunity to see other places. This is one of those times to do it.Tiger Woods played in Abu Dhabi in 2012 and 2013, while Phil Mickelson was a runner-up at Abu Dhabi in 2014.___ANNIKA DESIGN: Annika Sorenstams golf project hits close to home. Annika Course Design has been hired to build a seaside course 20 minutes outside the capital of Estonia, a project geared around a family leisure resort and spa.Sorenstam, a 10-time major champion from Sweden, will be working with European Golf Design on the Annika Course at Estonian Golf & Country Club. It is to open in 2019 along with 50 of the planned 150 rooms at the resort.This will be her fifth golf course design overseas, and her first in Europe.Its exciting to be designing my first golf course in Europe, especially one that is close to home, Sorenstam said. The golf industry has been talking a lot about the need to develop golf facilities that are more flexible and family friendly, and Estonian Golf & Country Club is actually making it happen.The course will replace the clubs existing nine-hole course and complement the Sea Course, a qualifying site for the 2011 World Cup.___DIVOTS: The Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua is sharing the good fortune for an ace. If a player makes a hole-in-one on the par-3 eighth hole during the tournament, the player gets a 2015 Hyundai Genesis 5.0 and his caddie will receive a 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport. The bad news? Lucas Glover in 2006 is the only player to make an ace on No. 8 during competition. ... A scholarship has been created to honour Ron Balicki, the former Golfweek magazine writer who died in April of cancer. The Ron Balicki Scholarship will be given each year at the NCAA Championship to honour and encourage journalism and writing students with an interest in writing about college and amateur golf. ... Padraig Harrington has received an exemption to the Phoenix Open.___STAT OF THE WEEK: Brendon de Jonge has played 72 tournaments worldwide the last two years, the most of anyone in the top 100 in the world ranking.___FINAL WORD: I cant remember the golf course because I was only 9 years old. The only thing about the golf course that I remember is that I got blown over on one of the tee boxes and Dad had to pick me up. — Charley Hull, who won a Ladies Golf Union championship at Turnberry in 2005. The links course will host the Ricoh Womens British Open next year. ' ' '