The New Orleans Saints gave a lot of young players at crucial question mark positions a chance to prove their promise in the first half of Friday night’s preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals.

While some rose to the challenge, but a player who had generated his fair share of preseason hype, faltered.

Offered his first chance to start an NFL preseason game, second-year quarterback Taysom Hill failed to protect the ball against Arizona’s starting defense.  Hill started at quarterback and committed four turnovers. The rest of the Saints offense struggled behind him in a 20-15 loss in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Drew Brees didn’t play for the second consecutive preseason game. He was joined on the bench by star defensive end Cam Jordan and star running back Alvin Kamara.

ESPN has released its preseason NFL power rankings, earlier this week, assembled by over 80 panelists considering what all 32 franchises have to offer. They’ve settled on the sensible 1-2 ranking of last year’s Super Bowl contenders – the victorious Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots – followed by a surprise to probably everyone but fans of the black and gold: the New Orleans Saints at 3.

As prepares to hold LSU holds its second preseason scrimmage this weekend, Head Coach Ed Orgeron is hoping to see it go better than the previous.  During a press event Wednesday, Orgeron said there were way too many penalties—mostly false starts and holding—that put the offense in long-yard situations. He thinks part of that will clear up because the team no longer has to run four quarterbacks.