C Erik McCoy returned to practice 11/7/24; McCoy designated for return from IR

Teams were challenging Rattler to beat them and committing defenders to the run. On early downs in the first three quarters, the Saints saw a stacked box 9.9% of the time in the first five weeks. That jumped to 22.2% for Rattler's three starts, and dropped to 7.4% against Carr on Sunday.
and we were hoping he'd rise to the challenge. More defenders in the box means fewer in throwing lanes if you can sort through the traffic, though I wondered why we didn't call a lot of plays that allowed for some easy pitch and catch to get him in a rhythm. I also woudl have liked to see us dial up more shot plays, just to back them off. We seemed like we didn't want to try to go down the field OR perhaps he didn't try, because it's notable that within 15 plays of coming in for Rattler, Haener took a shot down field, and though it was incomplete I was happy to at least see it attempted.