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Game Averages (2012)
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| Team Statistics | ||
| Saints | Opponents | |
| Total First Downs | 351 | 273 |
| 1st Downs (Rush-Pass-By Penalty) | 94 - 236 - 21 | 94 - 150 - 29 |
| 3rd Down Conversions | 106/217 | 70/203 |
| 4th Down Conversions | 5/11 | 15/23 |
| Total Offensive Yds | 5960 | 4900 |
| Offense (Plays-Avg Yds) | 1067 - 5.6 | 948 - 5.2 |
| Total Rushing Yds | 1519 | 1797 |
| Rushing (Plays-Avg Yards) | 380 - 4.0 | 421 - 4.3 |
| Total Passing Yds | 4441 | 3103 |
| Passing (Comp-Att-Int-Avg) | 450 - 661 - 22 - 7.0 | 306 - 494 - 9 - 6.8 |
| Sacks | 33 | 26 |
| Field Goals | 25/31 | 28/34 |
| Touchdowns | 44 | 32 |
| (Rush-Pass-Ret-Def) | 9 - 33 - 0 - 2 | 13 - 13 - 0 - 6 |
| Time of Possession | 32:05 | 28:43 |
| Turnover Ratio | -6 | |
| Passing Statistics | |||||||||||||
| Player | Att | Comp | Yds | Comp % | Yds/Att | TD | TD % | INT | INT % | Long | Sck | Sack/Lost | Rating |
| Drew Brees | 658 | 448 | 4620 | 68.1 | 7.0 | 33 | 5.0 | 22 | 3.3 | 80 | 25 | 185 | 90.9 |
| Chase Daniel | 3 | 2 | 16 | 66.7 | 5.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 79.9 |
| Rushing Statistics | |||||
| Player | Att | Yds | Yds/Att | Long | TD |
| Chris Ivory | 137 | 716 | 5.2 | 55 | 5 |
| Pierre Thomas | 83 | 269 | 3.2 | 16 | 2 |
| Julius Jones | 48 | 193 | 4.0 | 54 | 0 |
| Ladell Betts | 45 | 150 | 3.3 | 12 | 2 |
| Reggie Bush | 36 | 150 | 4.2 | 23 | 0 |
| Drew Brees | 18 | -3 | -0.2 | 7 | 0 |
| Robert Meachem | 4 | 14 | 3.5 | 8 | 0 |
| Devery Henderson | 3 | 8 | 2.7 | 9 | 0 |
| Chase Daniel | 2 | 16 | 8.0 | 16 | 0 |
| Heath Evans | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 2 | 0 |
| Jimmy Graham | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Marques Colston | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Receiving Statistics | |||||
| Player | Rec | Yds | Yds/Rec | Long | TD |
| Marques Colston | 84 | 1023 | 12.2 | 43 | 7 |
| Lance Moore | 66 | 763 | 11.6 | 80 | 8 |
| Robert Meachem | 44 | 638 | 14.5 | 55 | 5 |
| Jeremy Shockey | 41 | 408 | 10.0 | 31 | 3 |
| Devery Henderson | 34 | 464 | 13.6 | 57 | 1 |
| Reggie Bush | 34 | 208 | 6.1 | 20 | 1 |
| Jimmy Graham | 31 | 356 | 11.5 | 52 | 5 |
| David Thomas | 30 | 219 | 7.3 | 22 | 2 |
| Pierre Thomas | 29 | 201 | 6.9 | 23 | 0 |
| Ladell Betts | 23 | 141 | 6.1 | 25 | 0 |
| Julius Jones | 17 | 59 | 3.5 | 13 | 0 |
| Adrian Arrington | 7 | 79 | 11.3 | 17 | 0 |
| Heath Evans | 7 | 41 | 5.9 | 18 | 1 |
| Chris Ivory | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 17 | 0 |
| Tory Humphrey | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
| Drew Brees | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| Field Goal Statistics | ||||||||||
| Player | 1-19 A | 1-19 M | 20-29 A | 20-29 M | 30-39 A | 30-39 M | 40-49 A | 40-49 M | 50+ A | 50+ M |
| Garrett Hartley | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| John Carney | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
| Punting Statistics | ||||||
| Player | Punts | Avg | Touchbacks/g | IN 20 | Long | Blck |
| Thomas Morstead | 57 | 45.9 | 6 | 21 | 64 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 57 | 45.9 | 6 | 21 | 64 | 0 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 67 | 44.7 | 3 | 26 | 59 | 0 |
| Punt Return Statistics | |||||
| Player | Returns | FC | Yds/Ret | Long | TD |
| Reggie Bush | 14 | 2 | 6.6 | 43 | 0 |
| Lance Moore | 11 | 16 | 10.2 | 72 | 0 |
| Tracy Porter | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 4 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 27 | 18 | 7.8 | 72 | 0 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 26 | 10 | 11.9 | 69 | 0 |
| Kick Return Statistics | |||||
| Player | Returns | Yds | Yds/Ret | Long | TD |
| Courtney Roby | 33 | 785 | 23.8 | 39 | 0 |
| Pierre Thomas | 7 | 154 | 22.0 | 32 | 0 |
| Devery Henderson | 6 | 142 | 23.7 | 27 | 0 |
| Heath Evans | 4 | 45 | 11.3 | 13 | 0 |
| Reggie Bush | 1 | 32 | 32.0 | 32 | 0 |
| Ladell Betts | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 52 | 1181 | 22.7 | 39 | 0 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 66 | 1592 | 24.1 | 69 | 0 |
| Defense Statistics | |||||
| Player | Comb | Total | Assist | Sck | Fumb |
| Roman Harper | 98 | 76 | 22 | 3.0 | 6 |
| Jonathan Vilma | 105 | 71 | 34 | 4.0 | 3 |
| Scott Shanle | 76 | 55 | 21 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Malcolm Jenkins | 64 | 54 | 10 | 1.0 | 1 |
| Jabari Greer | 61 | 54 | 7 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Danny Clark | 59 | 47 | 12 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Tracy Porter | 60 | 45 | 15 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Will Smith | 39 | 34 | 5 | 5.5 | 1 |
| Marvin Mitchell | 43 | 33 | 10 | 1.0 | 2 |
| Jo-Lonn Dunbar | 40 | 32 | 8 | 1.0 | 0 |
| Alex Brown | 39 | 32 | 7 | 2.0 | 1 |
| Sedrick Ellis | 44 | 30 | 14 | 6.0 | 2 |
| Patrick Robinson | 28 | 26 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Leigh Torrence | 27 | 26 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 |
| Remi Ayodele | 37 | 21 | 16 | 1.0 | 1 |
| Anthony Hargrove | 29 | 21 | 8 | 1.0 | 2 |
| Usama Young | 23 | 21 | 2 | 1.0 | 0 |
| Jeff Charleston | 26 | 19 | 7 | 3.0 | 2 |
| Jimmy Wilkerson | 16 | 14 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 |
| Pierson Prioleau | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Darren Sharper | 16 | 11 | 5 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Courtney Roby | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Anthony Waters | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Junior Galette | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Lance Moore | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Randall Gay | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Stanley Arnoux | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Chris Reis | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jonathan Stinchcomb | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Matt Giordano | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jimmy Graham | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Robert Meachem | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| David Thomas | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Ramon Humber | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Marques Colston | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| DeShawn Wynn | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Thomas Morstead | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Garrett Hartley | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jermon Bushrod | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Charles Brown | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Carl Nicks | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| K.C. Asiodu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jason Kyle | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 |
| Drew Brees | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Chris Ivory | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Ladell Betts | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jeremy Shockey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| TEAM TOTAL | 1043 | 823 | 220 | 33 | 25 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 1102 | 884 | 218 | 26 | 17 |
| Interception Statistics | |||||
| Player | Int | Yds | Yds/Int | Long | TD |
| Malcolm Jenkins | 2 | 105 | 52.5 | 96 | 1 |
| Jabari Greer | 2 | 50 | 25.0 | 26 | 1 |
| Leigh Torrence | 1 | 21 | 21.0 | 21 | 0 |
| Roman Harper | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 |
| Jonathan Vilma | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| Tracy Porter | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| Will Smith | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 9 | 196 | 21.8 | 96 | 2 |
| OPPONENTS TOTAL | 22 | 344 | 15.6 | 66 | 4 |