Marques Colston had an arthroscopic procedure on his knee Tuesday and is questionable for Sunday's game against the Buccaneers. He played in the Saints' victory over the Falcons this past Monday night. Sean Payton says Colston emerged from the game with soreness and characterized the procedure as a "clean up" and relatively minor. Colston has 84 receptions for 1,023 yards and seven touchdowns.

An MRI on the collarbone of Reggie Bush has revealed no damage, according to a source close to the Saints. Bush sustained a sprained sternoclavicular joint during Monday night's 17-14 victory at Atlanta, but he isn't expected to miss any time.

The Falcons decided to punt to the Saints in the final moments of their game on Monday night, basically allowing them to run out the clock. New Orleans won 17-14. "Definitely thought it was the right thing to do," coach Mike Smith said. "It was fourth down and six with the ball out their 38, 39-yard line maybe even a little bit further out. But on fourth and six we felt like the way that we'd been playing defensively and we had two timeouts and we hopefully could wrap one around the two-minute warning. Unfortunately, we didn't get it done there at the end." Smith added that he didn't think Atlanta's defense got tired. "I don't believe so. We didn't execute very well on that one drive," he said. "The other score was a short field after a turnover and I thought we kept our rotation like we wanted to. They made the plays. It's the typical game when these two teams meet, since I've been here, there's only been one game that hasn't been at eight points or less. Most of them are at two or three or four point games."

The Saints clinched a playoff berth by beating the Falcons 17-14 on Monday night. The victory also keep the defending-champions in play for the No. 1 overall seed in the NFC. They trail Atlanta by a game entering the season's final weekend. "It feels good," Drew Brees said. "You just want to punch your ticket to the big show, and we've done that. Obviously Carolina needs to beat Atlanta next week so we can get that 1-seed."

Roddy White regrets sending a Tweet referring to Hurricane Katrina. "The grace of god gave them tht championship so tht city wouldn fall apart now and now they think they hot (obscenity)," he wrote. White acknowledged the comments were inappropriate. "I'm sorry," he said. "I really didn't say anything about the hurricane, but they took it that way. I wasn't trying to say anything mean about the city. I was just talking about the sports team. I am a football player. This is a sports topic. But everybody took it like, 'He hopes the city of New Orleans dies or something.' Come on, are you serious, man? It's not that serious."

In 2007, opposing quarterbacks passed for 32 touchdown passes and an average of 257 yards a game against the Saints. Three years later, the Saints are ranked fifth in the league in pass defense, allowing an average of 198.6 yards a game. Their combined passer rating is 79.0. The Saints have allowed just eight touchdown passes this season, which leads the NFL.

The Saints say kickoff returner Courtney Roby has feeling in his extremities and was alert while taken from the field on a stretcher with an apparent upper body injury against St. Louis. Roby appeared to be moving his arms and talking while paramedics attended to him Sunday. The injury occurred while Roby was returning a kickoff late in the second quarter. He fumbled on the tackle and players piled on top of him.

Saints running back Pierre Thomas will miss his ninth-straight game with a sprained ankle. Thomas won't face the Bengals on Sunday afternoon. He expects to play against the Rams in Week 14.

Saints running back Pierre Thomas will be a game-time decision for the team's game against the Bengals on Sunday. Thomas, who's missed eight games with a sprained left ankle, has been limited in practice all week and jogging with a limp at times. He was the team's leading rusher last season.

The Saints will gradually give Reggie Bush more opportunities as he gets healthier now that he is back in the lineup. "We'll get him more and more work as he progresses," Payton said Thursday. After practice Wednesday Bush said he feels, "great."