{"id":197138,"date":"2025-07-10T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/197138\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:41:13","slug":"nfl-network-predictions-saints-will-plummet-to-bottom-of-the-league-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/197138\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Network predictions: Saints will plummet to bottom of the league in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Orleans Saints<\/a> have very few believers going into the 2025 NFL season. This is especially true in national circles. The latest and most egregious disrespect comes from Adam Rank, one of the writers at the NFL Network. Rank has been with NFL.com since 1995 and an on-air personality with the NFL Network since 2011. He is best known as a fantasy football analyst but also for outlandish NFL predictions.<\/p>\n

This week, Adam Rank gave his game-by-game predictions for every NFL squad, which you can see right here<\/a>. Rank predicts that the New Orleans Saints will finish with a 2-15 record and last in the NFC South. To be fair, Rank contradicted himself when he had the Saints losing at home against the Atlanta Falcons<\/a> in Week 12, yet had Atlanta losing at New Orleans when he did his predictions for the Falcons. Still, Rank had the Saints finishing with the worst record in the NFL. Only the New York Giants<\/a> (4-13), Cleveland Browns<\/a> (4-13), and Tennessee Titans<\/a> (5-12) had records with at least 12 losses along with New Orleans according to Rank.<\/p>\n

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Adam Rank’s predictions had the Saints defeating the New England Patriots<\/a> and Chicago Bears<\/a> in back-to-back games in weeks 6 and 7 for their only wins. Interestingly, Rank projected that the Bears would finish with an 11-6 record and win the NFC North. After that upset over Chicago, he predicted that New Orleans would lose their final 10 games and would be swept in the NFC South. That would be the first time that the Saints were swept in division games since 1996, when they finished with a 3-13 record. It would also mark the worst record in the 59-year history of the Saints since their 1-15 disaster in 1980.<\/p>\n

Rank barely even paused when going through the New Orleans schedule. He quickly chalked up loss after loss while only calling a Week 5 home game against the Giants and Week 8 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> as potential “winnable” games. During his full predictions for each team, he’d go on to call New Orleans a “get right” game or “homecoming” matchup for any team on their schedule.<\/p>\n

Adam Rank predicted that the Carolina Panthers<\/a> would win the NFC South with a 9-8 record. He projected that the Falcons and Buccaneers would finish with 8-9 marks before his belief that the Saints would finish in both the bottom of the division and the NFL.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Saints Wire: NFL Network analyst predicts Saints plummeting to bottom of the league<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints have very few believers going into the 2025 NFL season. This is especially true…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[14398,254,260,391,54,7,249,896,55,56,2572,2571,1591,6,126,397,250,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-197138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-adam-rank","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-cleveland-browns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-new-orleans","16":"tag-new-orleans-saints","17":"tag-new-york-giants","18":"tag-neworleans","19":"tag-neworleanssaints","20":"tag-nfc-south","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-network","23":"tag-saints","24":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","25":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114831116768895150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}