Here's one that just doesn't make sense. 

 

The Saints been wiped out by two straight opponents, including the typically inept Buccaneers, who hung 31 on them. New Orleans has the worst defense in the league (36.0 PPG) and the worst scoring differential in the NFL

(-48). They're at the bottom of virtually every defensive measure, including Defensive Passer Rating (137.1), Bendability Index (10.86 YPPS) and Big Play Index (-7 differential).

 

The Saints offense ain't much better: 29th in our Scoreability Index and 27th in Passing Yards Per Attempt - pretty pathetic for a team that's supposed to be an offensive powerhouse.

 

Yet somehow New Orleans is a 4.5-point favorite over a Tennessee team that just went down to the wire last week with superpower Indy before falling 22-20 - the same Indy team that humiliated the Saints in Week 1 by a 41-10 margin. (Evern harder to comprehend is why New Orleans opened as a 5.5-point favorite.)

 

Go figure.

 

The Titans, meanwhile, have one of the league's great Big Play threats in Vince Young, while the Saints give up Big Plays more often than Art Schlichter gives up gambling. Tennessee is hardly a juggernaut, but the Titans at least show some general solidity in many different aspects of the game.

 

The Saints? Well, whatever the oppositive of solidity is, that's them so far this season.

 

Nobody likes eating in New Orleans more than we do, but home cookin' just ain't good enough to overcome so many gaping flaws.