The journey of Chris Ivory: Dismissed, discarded and, finally, celebrated

60/40 on 1st down and 60/40 throughout the first half. But the idea that the pass opened up the run that season is not accurate. It was staying balanced that opened up the entire offense. May I suggest you go ahead and download the data yourself from the source. I downloaded it back in 2011 and the latest data I had at the time was 2010.
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You can use the information to prove your point of view or to get a better understanding. Of course if you go into with preconceived ideas you can query anything to prove yourself correct.

Plenty of times during Sean Payton's career he abandoned the run because he got pass happy. He grew predictable with his personnel packages and formations. Had we stayed as balanced as we did in 2009, we wouldn't have had so many mediocre seasons of 7-9.

The Falcons game last week we stayed balanced. We couldn't run the ball to save our lives, but guess what, we stuck with it. It opened up the passing game, the play action actually worked because Payton wasn't as predictable as he has been the last several years. Staying balanced even with an injured and terrible Oline allows the offense to be efficient.

It's raining green thumbs on the first page of this thread for his initial post, though. Apparently, claiming Payton's Saints have never been particularly good at running the ball, whether accurate or not, is a populist position.

I figured saying "We were awesome at running the ball in 2009 and 2011" would be a real crowd pleaser, but I was horribly wrong. smh

That's not "black and gold" tinted glasses, either. It's a statistical fact, both in rushing numbers and in the win column.