2024 Week 9: Saints 22, Panthers 23
The Saints fired Dennis Allen after this game, after starting the season (2-0) and going on a 7-game losing streak, and are now in last place in the NFC Soth after this loss. Looking at the stats for this game I don’t know how the Saints lost, they outperformed Carolina in every team statistic… literally.
Carolina notched their second win and is heading to Germany to play the Giants. What a great way to grow the game… two (2-7) teams featuring Bryce Young and Daniel Jones. Riveting!
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QB Report:
- Bryce Young (16/26 for 171 yards, 1 TD/1 INT) played another halfway decent game and did well enough for the Panthers to sit on their lead and run the clock out to a victory. I think we will see Young play in Germany, but after that, it will likely be Dalton's return to quarterback. After this game, HC Dave Canales was asked about Young starting the Germany game and was non-committal.
- Derek Carr (18/31 for 236 yards, 1 TD) returned for the Saints and he threw a terrible pass to Chris Olave (1-13-0/1)... a literal hospital ball. Olave was released from the hospital shortly after the game had ended and is expected to be fine, though I imagine he’ll miss some time while in concussion protocol. After Olave went down the Saints offense was abysmal.
I imagine New Orleans will go to Spencer Rattler full-time eventually, prepare for the future, develop him, and all that mumbo jumbo. Carr is bad and we all remember how awful Rattler is.
RB/WR/TE Report:
- Without Olave and Shaheed, Carr and the Saints ran their entire offense through Alvin Kamara (29-155-0; 6 catches for 60 yards) and Taysom Hill (5-19-1; 4 catches for 41 yards).
- Chuba Hubbard (15-72-2; 2 catches) just played his last game as the lead back for Carolina, Jonathan Brooks practiced all of last week and was a healthy scratch for this game. He should be active for Week 10 with a takeover imminent.
- The passing numbers were down for Carolina because they were sitting on a lead in the second half, and with that, Hud-favorite WR Jalen Coker (2-36-0/3) didn’t have a monster game. Most of the second half was 2 TE sets so he wasn’t playing as much. What also takes away from Coker is Carolina pushing Xavier Legette (4-33-1/6) as the #1 WR. He’s good, but Coker can be great. He already plays like a multi-year veteran.
image source: (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman)