The New Orleans Saints weren’t able to knock off the Tennessee Titans last week, but few NFL power rankings updates are holding it against them. They took Tennessee down to the wire — no small feat against the league’s hottest team, riding a six-game winning streak, with a series of big injury absences to deal with.
So the season isn’t over yet. The consensus opinion has the Saints in the NFL’s upper half, penciled in as a wild-card team in the playoff picture. But they’ve got a lot of problems to correct before that projection becomes a reality. Here’s what the Week 11 NFL power rankings had to say about them:
