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NFL power rankings have never felt more useless than they seem to be right now. Sure, they’ve never really mattered — standings aren’t impacted by them, and most teams don’t have time to even give them a glance for bulletin board material. It’s just filler to pad out the time between games and newsworthy roster moves.
Still, it’s baffling to see the New Orleans Saints spoken of so highly only to drop in these rankings. CBS Sports’ Pete Prisco, for example, lauded the job Sean Payton has done coaching his team on the road for a month and beating Bill Belichick’s Patriots in New England this weekend — only to drop the Saints a spot, contradicting his own writeup. This is a common theme throughout the NFL media landscape. See for yourself: