Week 4 Power Rankings: Saints continue to fall, now outside the top 10
After a Week 3 loss to the Green Bay Packers, the Saints continued to fall down the rankings. This time, they slide outside of the top ten.
The New Orleans Saints have seen a hefty slide down the power rankings over the course of the last two weeks. After the Week 2 loss to the Raiders and the Week 3 loss to the Packers, New Orleans finds itself down ten places from where they started.
According to rankings from NFL.com given by Dan Hanzus, the New Orleans Saints started the year going into Week 1 in the No. 4 position behind just the 49ers in the NFC and the Ravens and Chiefs in the AFC.
After their win in Week 1, they stayed right where they were at, at No. 4. However, the Green Bay Packers moved ahead of them and the 49ers moved below them. Then the two weeks following would be two losses moving them to No. 9 and then eventually out of the top ten.
Going into Week 4, New Orleans finds itself as the No. 13 team in the NFL. While that is not necessarily something to worry about, the Saints need to get their game together and get it together quickly in order to move back up the rankings.
Currently, New Orleans is the No. 5 team in the NFC behind the Packers, Buccaneers, Seahawks, and 49ers. That is still playoff-worthy so there is some bright side to the dismal drop in rankings that the Saints faced this week.
They should be expected to bounce back in the near future.
Going forward, though, the Saints won’t be able to keep losing games and staying where they are at in the power rankings. They will look to bounce back in Week 4 against the Detroit Lions in Michigan.
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This should be a good time to bounce back as the Lions are also 1-2.