Saints 29th in run defense on the edges

diehard said

They give the ypc, but not the attempts or gross yardage.

It could be the result of the scheme. I would think there would be more attempts in the middle than the extreme edges anyway. If correct, then Gibbs & Co may have decided to concentrate on plugging the middle and rightfully so.

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They give percentages

In the same order as the original post

11%
15%
53%
13%
7%

These percentages seem mostly typical for all of the teams (some exceptions being Arizona that had only 29% in the middle and evenly spread out from there...probably due to success outside, while New England has a whopping 66% in the middle, probably because running outside doesn't work well vs them. Most everyone is inbetween those extremes like us though).