Boutte

All this talk about the offense being stale....

Rushing attempts per game 17th
Rushing YPG 9th
YPC 4.7 4th

Yards passing per game 297 3rd
Completion percentage 69.33 1st
Sacks per game 1.6 8th

Total offense
yards per play 6.1 tied for 3rd
third down percentage 48.78 2nd (by .02% to Dallas' 48.8)
first downs per game 25.2 1st
yards per game 421 3rd
red zone TDs per game 2.4 3rd

Offense is fine, give them a short field now and then and see what they can do.

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dizzle88

They've also turned it over a lot, giving the opposing team a short field

Danno

Saints opponents have the worst starting field position in the entire league.

Yeah, I was surprised by that stat too.

Danno

Yep, Offense isn't the main problem at all

From our friend bclemms at SR (Does not include week 15)

Saints Offense
Yards per drive- #1
Plays per drive- #1
Yards per play- #2
Points per drive- #4
3rd down efficiency- #1
Time of possession per drive- #2
Offense drives per game- #32
Offense starting field position- #32 (we have to go farther than anyone else)


Saints Defense
Yards per drive- #32
Plays per drive- #29
Points per drive- #32
3rd down efficiency- #32
Time of possession per drive- #32
Opponents starting field position- #2 (only one other team has to go farther per drive)

Cruize

Offense - Grubbs, Colston, Watson and PT cut. Trade Evans. Re-sign FA's Morgan, Kelemete and Saunders.
Defense - Bunkley, Bush, Hawthorne, JR and Morstead cut. Re-sign FA's Humber, Walker, and Virgil.

Ask Payton if he wants to stay will a whole new staff. If he declines, trade him to the Raiders.

Trade down in the draft atleast once and pick up some more picks.

Jankman8

Why cut Morstead? Makes no sense.

Cruize

The Saints need cap space. $3 mil for a punter is ridiculous. Even for a good one. But, it will only save the Saints $1 mil so it won't happen.

SaintsBro

The opponent starting field position stat is surprising, but it makes the other defensive stats show that they are even WORSE. Yards per drive #32, points per drive #32, Time of possession #32, 3rd down #32. That right there is it. What that means is, they literally can't stop anyone and they can't get off the field. It literally does not matter where the other team starts from, the result is usually a touchdown or score.

The offense is not the main problem but it's still a problem situationally, in the actual games. They have long periods where they pull a Rip Van Winkle and "go to sleep." Some of it's turnovers and some of it is three and outs. But look at the box scores by quarter, it's been a factor in all the bad games the team has had. You can't have whole quarters or whole halves without scoring ANY points, with this defense that we have on the field. You look at the points per quarter in these box scores, and the other teams just keep chugging away and scoring slowly but surely, while the Saints lay goose eggs. And these single quarters where the other team piles on and gets 14, 17, 19, 20 points, are just killing the team.

Danno

We have a bend and break defense.

blackangold

that was a good laugh..