Reference The Saints stellar Pass D???

[Shane]

Which has only a 68.8 QB rating against it for the year and a 57% comp % against them? Quote from John Clayton:

The Saints' defense can't get too overconfident going into the game. The pass defense had an impressive 68.6 quarterback rating against it -- third-best among NFL stoppers -- and also had an impressive 57.6 completion percentage against. But how much of that was a by-product of the schedule?

The Saints played the league's easiest schedule, and faced more rookie quarterbacks than any team in football. They faced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Josh Freeman twice, the Detroit Lions' Matthew Stafford and the New York Jets' Mark Sanchez. They played the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons when backup quarterbacks started because of injuries.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playo...ist=clayton_john&page=1standGoal/09divisional

That certainly is enough to help inflate those stats.

 

[kerouac9]

Yup. They also faced Kevin Kolb (who threw 51 passes for 2 TDs and 3 INTs), Chad Henne, and Jake Delhomme.

 

[Linderbee]

I think that bodes well for us. Might make their defense think they're better than they really are, and they've had limited exposure to really, really, really freaking good QB's. I wonder what their QB rating against them is when they played better teams?

 

[zotzcafe]

The best 4 we faced would have been

Matt Ryan
Eli Manning
Tom Brady
Tony Romo

In each case but Romo's the QB rating was in the 45-60 range a good 30+ points off their season average. We actually got torn up more by backups as we played mainly run defense and dared them to throw it in the air.

Romo went from 97 to 104 rating on us.

It will be interesting to see what happens on Saturday, Kurt is definitely a special QB and may be the best QB we have faced this year depending on your personal opinion. We do have our starting 2 CB back though (finally!, imagine if Adams was your #1 CB => we were down to our 4,5,6 and 7th CB in the dime package at times.)

 

[Linderbee]

Thanks for the stats!

I was going to comment on the back-ups part. Looked like Kolb had a stellar game against you guys.

Either way, it's going to be a great game, and it is awesome to see two teams that have historically struggled for so many years go at it.

 

[Duckjake]

Who cares? No defense other than SF has stopped the Cards passing game in two and a half years.

OMG what have I done?!?!?!

 

[Linderbee]

If that happens, then we just run all over their asses.

BEANIE!!