VIDEO REPORT: Saints rout Panthers in historic performance by Derek Carr and offense [Video]

SAINTS HEAD COACH DENNIS ALLENOpening statement”It was good to get a win and start the season off that way. It was good to see, offensively, we were able to run the football, which I felt like was going to be a key factor for us. We ran the ball really well, which opened up some things in the play action passing game. We had explosives down the field. That was good to see from the offense. Defensively, we had the three takeaways, had four sacks in the game. I thought we did a pretty good job minimizing what they were able to do in the running game, which allows you to kind of rush the passer a little more. There are certainly a ton of things we have to get cleaned up. The penalties were too many. That’s something we will have to address this week at practice. We still …