Some have suggested that the Saints run D is just an effect of teams abandoning the run because they fall so far behind. I don't think that's the case and it certainly wasn't in this game.
Before this game, the Saints run D was certainly very low in attempts (the lowest, at 224) but they were also tied for 1st with the Bears in yards per attempt allowed (3.6).
Yesterday shows that those numbers are real--in spite of running on them more than the avg. attempts they usually deal with, Dallas was still low in yards per carry. In that game Dallas as a team ran 31 times for 100 yards, and by himself Elliott ran 23 times for 76 yards. That's 3.2 a carry and 3.3 a carry, respectively.
That's of course actually better than their average in the previous 11 games (3.6). If anything the Dallas game will lower their general avg. for YPC allowed. It will go from 3.6 to 3.5.
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