re: NFL.com, "Saints will have 6th best offense. Pats/Steelers look scary"

Depends if they're talking yards or points.

If it's yards it's an EXTREMELY safe bet we finish top 5. Under Payton 5th was our worst finish, and we've had more 1st place finishes (7) than other finishes combined (2nd, 3rd, and 2 5ths).

Far and away the best team in the league since 06 in putting up yards and it's not even close.

In fact we've been so dominant in gaining yards we haven't been below 400 since 2010, and we only had 4 years under 400 (2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010), and only 2 years under 393 (2007 and 2010).

Now if we are talking points, we've had much more variance there and have finished as low as 12th before (iirc we've had an 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th place finish since 06).

No guarantees we finish top 5 here especially since 13 and 14 were two of our worst years. But we've had 3 1st place finishes and a few other top 6 finishes.

We've also only had 2 years under 25 points. You could probably guess the years (2007 and 2010).

One last note is we've finished postive 3 times in turnover margin, and only 1 year was high in the positives. Again we all know what year that is.