By Jeff Duncan, The Times-Picayune

January 03, 2010, 4:42PM

The New Orleans Saints are going to try to do something no team in the NFL has ever done.

Lose their final three regular season games and advance to the Super Bowl.

Against Carolina, the Saints didn’t really go in with winning in mind, sitting starting quarterback Drew Brees and pulling other starters early in the game, and fell to the Panthers 23-10.

Were there positives for the Saints? A few. Notably the play of running back Lynell Hamilton, who had 82 yards rushing and receing, and maybe the Reggie Bush punt returns, which today were more positive yards than we’ve seen during the season.

Now the Saints (13-3) will get a week off, then will try to regroup, get healthy and turn back on the switch that led them to the 13 wins. But, by the time they play on Jan. 17, it will have been a month since they’ve won a game.

Backup quarterback Mark Brunell was 15-of-29 for 102 yards.

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