No, the Saints are the better offense. They mesh much better together than Favre and our’s does. Not to mention that O-line of their’s is fantastic. They’ve put up 40 points on numerous occasions, against better opponents than who we’ve faced. It’s really not much of a contest. About all we beat them on is RB.

I think we are very much similar and I don’t agree entirely with Frost who mentions their tougher opponents. The records of the teams they’ve played are:

Lions 1W – 5L
Bills 3W – 4L
Miami 2W – 4L (includes the loss to the Saints)
Eagles 4W – 2L
Giants 5W – 2L
Jets 4W – 3L

Bear in mind that the Giants schedule was pretty soft, so you can’t put too much stock into that and the other two teams with winning records in that list – the Jets & Eagles – haven’t been consistent and/or have other issues (like a rookie QB or a team that lost to the Raiders!!). That leaves the Bills, Lions, and Dolphins – all of whom aren’t terrible but close to it (no offense to fans of those teams).

Vikes schedule:

Browns 1W – 6L
Steelers 5W – 2L (includes victory over Vikings)
Ravens 3W – 3L
Packers 4W – 2L
Lions 1W – 5L
Rams 0W – 6L
49ers 3W – 3L

I’ll give ya that the Browns, Rams, and Lions are pretty bad – just like the Bills, Dolphins, and Lions were in the Saints schedule. So those are easy victories for both teams and both teams won those games fairly easily, albeit with minor hiccups (Vikings letting up late in some of their easier games, the Saints nearly losing to the Dolphins).

That leaves the Steelers, the defending SB Champs, – the Ravens (not the same tough Defense but still a very good team all-around, in general – the Packers (good, not great) – and the 49ers (flaky but their defense can be tough – for the Vikings. And they only barely lost to the Steelers; barring a crappy call that changed the game entirely and one fluky interception that deflected perfectly to an opposing defender, the Vikes would have victories in this whole batch.

The Saints had good victories over the Giants (based on their record but if you look at who the Giants had played up to that point, it was a pretty easy schedule, so they don’t seem as tough as we all thought they were at the start of the season), the Eagles (and they’re terribly inconsistent with depth problems and injuries), and the Jets (again, inconsistent, with a Rookie QB but fairly tough defense).

If you consider all that information, it very much doesn’t seem so far-fetched that our two teams are very well-matched in abilities and results so far this season. At some point, one of our two teams will start to separate itself from the other a little bit and that should prove informative, also.

If we met them in the playoffs, I think we’d stand a very good chance of holding our own and/or winning that game. I don’t think they’re defense is as all-around good as our is – though I miss Sharper and knew that we shouldn’t have traded him away. :( Although his salary demands matched with his age made it tough to avoid that result.