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For his part, Saints head coach Sean Payton immediately addressed the play in a post-game press conference.

\"That call makes it first and 10, we're on our knee three plays, and it's a game-changing call,\" Payton said.

And NFL commissioner Roger Goodell weighed in on the non-call earlier this week.

\"It's a play that should be called,\" Goodell admitted for the first time on Wednesday.

Brees said he wished that Goodell's response had come immediately after the game.

\"I think we all wish that he would have addressed that right after,\" Brees added. \"At the end of the day, that's something that is out of our control as players and coaches.\"

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\"He hasn't reached out to me,\" Brees said, adding that none of his teammates have heard directly from Gooddell.

Robey-Coleman has since been fined $26,739, ESPN reported.

Despite clinching a birth to the championship game, Brees, 40, had a record-breaking season eclipsing Peyton Manning as the NFL's all-time passing leader.

The 2010 Super Bowl winning QB offered simple advice to the Rams' young quarterback, Jared Goff, who's making his first Super Bowl appearance.

\"This,\" Brees said, \"is what you've worked so hard to do -- go out relax and play ball.\"

ABC News' Stephanie Wash contributed to this report.

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