Black & Gold Xs & Os: New Orleans Saints’ Defensive Gameplan vs. Carolina

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Published: November 6, 2009

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... is very good at one thing—running the football—and not so good at another—throwing it.

Anyone probably could have said the same thing, without breaking down the Panthers previous four games.

I hope to give you some more patterns and tendencies to watch for on Sunday afternoon.

One of those is that the Panthers routinely run the football on first down. I don't have an actual percentage but I would say at least 60 percent of the time. The other 40 percent is made up of primarily play-action and some quick dropback passes.

When they use play-action on first down, about 90 percent of the time they are trying to get an explosive play down the field, and most of the time they are trying to hit Steve Smith. He runs a lot of "Go Routes" and Deep Posts, as well as some Deep Ins (Digs).

The other main form of play-action the Panthers will use is a bootleg where they generally hit a tight end or back out of the backfield in the flat.

I shou...

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