A high-stakes comeback to defeat the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night wasn’t enough to help the New Orleans Saints in the latest NFL power rankings from Doug Farrar over at Touchdown Wire.
They Saints are still his No. 13-ranked team, and while they’re now placed above the reeling Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New Orleans has been leapfrogged by the upstart Carolina Panthers.
Here’s some of what Farrar wrote on the Saints after their Week 5 win:
The stories about Brees’ arm going off the charts in a bad way have been circulating for years, but 2020 seems like a reckoning.