Underhill article on why the Saints O is so bleh

Saintaholic said

Great article...talks about us being ranked dead last in pre-snap motion, again (and the gold standard offenses in the league rounding out the top 5), talks about us being dead last in play-action pass attempts despite Carr historically excelling off P.A., and also talks about a big drop off in the number in the number of slant routes MT runs, which historically he has been great at.

But sure, yes, let's keep doing what we're doing. It'll have to work eventually, right?

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So I did some research on the Michael Thomas slant route drop off.

It appears that MT has run 138 routes so far this season. Nick says he has run 10 slant routes. That would be 7.2% of his routes.

For his career, 9.0% of his routes have been slants (second highest rate in the NFL).

So if he had run 12 slants instead of 10 he would be right on his career average. There's a lot of things broken in the offense right now but I'm not sure his slant route rate over a small sample size is all that meaningful yet.

If Nick used different numbers, I'd love to see them.