Saints 29th in run defense on the edges
Think Gary Gibbs is clued in to this?
Well i'm sure he has to be. Again, after Tampa really keyed in on our edges the first time they played us (and almost won) we came back against Philly, who I thought would just abuse us with Westbrook outside, and handled Westbrook ok.
Westbrook was like 16 for 75, but he didn't break anything big and didn't "alter" the game.
So maybe you'll see something similiar vs the Steelers where Willie Parker isn't much of an inside runner. So we'll key outside a lot more, try to contain him there. And maybe it'll work just as well as it did vs Philly (I expect the game to have a LOT of similiarities to the Philly game except we arent at home and the Steelers make a lot more mistakes).
But it's going to be a problem if we ever face a real running back who can go outside and inside. Carolina is still a problem later in the year, they have good all-around backs. The Giants may be a huge problem for us. Dallas could give us trouble. It's something to watch out for.