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Saints achieve offensive balance with a running game ranked seventh in league

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For more than a decade, the New Orleans Saints' prolific aerial show ruled supreme.

Quarterback Drew Brees can still air it out with the best of them, of course, and the Saints currently rank fourth in passing (269.8 yards per game).

The Saints, however, have shown through the first half of the season that the offense can depend on the running game, which enters Week 10 ranked seventh in the league and averages 122.8 yards rushing per game.

"It's part of playing complementary football," Brees said. "We talk about that. There's complementary football offensively between running and pass, and there's complementary football between our offense and our defense playing together.