re: I'm thinking we should just go young and cheap with our safeties.

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- It seems right to start with the Thursday Night Football. For New Orleans no-one graded higher than Ben Grubbs (+5.6), Brian De La Puente (+5.0) and Rafael Bush (+2.9).

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- With two more missed tackles Malcolm Jenkins has now missed 20 for the year. That’s got record breaking potential.

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Bottom 10 First Downs and Touchdowns Allowed
Name Team Snaps 1st Downs & TDs 1st Downs & TDs %

Danny McCray DAL 347 22 6.34%
Atari Bigby SD 348 21 6.03%
Mike C. Adams DEN 528 29 5.49%
Roman Harper NO 569 30 5.27%
Jordan Babineaux TEN 438 23 5.25%
Eric Berry KC 468 22 4.70%
Quintin Mikell SL 529 24 4.54%
Tavon Wilson NE 301 13 4.32%
Malcolm Jenkins NO 466 20 4.29%
LaRon Landry NYJ 488 20 4.10%

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Top 10 First Downs and Touchdowns Allowed Rank Name Team Snaps 1st Downs & TDs 1st Downs & TDs %
1 Chris D. Clemons MIA 628 6 0.96%
2 Eric Weddle SD 592 7 1.18%
3 Ryan Clark PIT 497 6 1.21%
4 Jairus Byrd BUF 561 7 1.25%
5 Reshad Jones MIA 597 8 1.34%
6 M.D. Jennings GB 353 5 1.42%
7 Harrison Smith MIN 622 9 1.45%
8 Isa Abdul-Quddus NO 320 5 1.56%
9 Rahim Moore DEN 609 10 1.64%
10 T.J. Ward CLV 539 9 1.67%
10 George Wilson BUF 478 8 1.67%

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With the Saints owning our two lowest-graded safeties this season, it’s been nice to see some production on the back end in the last few weeks in the form of Isa Abdul-Quddus. Forced into full time action with Malcolm Jenkins on IR, Quddus has responded extremely well in the last three games starting and playing 100% of defensive snaps. His performance against the Panthers marked the third time in four games – and his fourth on the season – that he’s graded at or above +1.9 in coverage, a mark neither Jenkins nor Roman Harper reached even once in a combined 29 games and over 2000 defensive snaps.

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