re: Week 3 NFL Power Rankings: some outlets still sleeping on the Saints (updated on pg. 2)

Saints beginning to get their due credit. Still no one brave enough to put us at #1 though.

CBS Sports: #6

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The first-team offense has scored on 15 of 15 possessions this season. That's domination.

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Yahoo Sports: #3

NFL.com: #8

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It was one thing to throttle Carolina at home. Good job there. But it was quite another for the Saints to go into Dallas and thrash the Cowboys for the better part of four quarters. I promise I am not making excuses for having them 28th to start the season, but I can't imagine too many people outside the building were expecting this. Derek Carr is now 30-for-39 passing (76.9%) on the season for 443 yards -- a stunning 11.4 yards per attempt -- and five TDs, with only a late pick Sunday in a game his team was winning by 22 points. I'd love to be Klint Kubiak's agent right now. The Saints' new offensive coordinator has come in and improved the company's efficiency immeasurably. At this rate, he'll have his choice of head-coaching jobs in four months. In a season where passing efficiency is close to a 20-year low through two games, New Orleans is scoring at a historic rate -- 91 points, tied for the second-most in a team's first two games of a season since the 1970 merger.

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ESPN: #9

NBC Sports: #10

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It’s been easy so far. We’ll learn a lot more about the Saints when adversity inevitably makes an appearance.

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Not power rankings per se but Shannon Sharpe put us #1, Stephen A said he trusts the Saints most

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Was looking to see if anyone in the media put us at #1. Of course it had to be that jackass