Article: Saints offense refuses to use play-action, motion like the rest of the NFL

saintmdterps said
I thought I remembered reading that Carr ran a lot of play action in LV? Does that mean he’s a play-action QB but the Saints can’t run a play action offense?

He didn't run a lot of play action under Gruden. The most play action that he ran in recent times was under McDaniels.

Rouxble said
Dalton was one of the best play action QB’s last year, so I don’t think that’s it. I do vaguely recall us getting bashed in one of the preseason almanacs for not using enough play action because it actually worked last year, which is a fair criticism.

Play action is what let me know that this offense WAS NOT the same as it was in 2021, even though everyone kept wanting to insist that it was. Dalton ran play action around 16% and Jameis around 10% last season. In 2019 and 2020, Drew ran play-action around 14%. In 2021, Winston ran play-action like 23% of the time (which was a lot closer to the offense we used to run). For a point of reference, Tua has currently ran play action on 24% of his passes and Cousins was at 27%.