Washington Commanders vs. New Orleans Saints: How to watch, start time, stats

The Washington Commanders (8-5) visit the New Orleans Saints (5-8) in Week 15 of the 2024 NFL season.

The Commanders are currently the 7-seed in the NFC playoff picture and coming off their bye week ahead of their trip to New Orleans.

The Saints could be without starting QB Derek Carr in this game after he fractured his non-throwing hand in Week 14 vs. the Giants, as well as top offensive weapons Chris Olave and Taysom Hill, who remain on injured reserve.

Let’s get into all you need to know ahead of this matchup.

How to watch Washington Commanders vs. New Orleans Saints, TV channel and streaming

Washington Commanders vs. New Orleans Saints will be available to watch on bet365's Sports Live Streaming and broadcast locally on FOX.

The game will also stream on NFL+, which requires a paid subscription.

Washington Commanders vs. New Orleans Saints start time, date and venue

Washington Commanders vs. New Orleans Saints will kick off at 1 PM ET / 12 PM CT on Sunday, December 15 from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Washington Commanders vs. New Orleans Saints stats

• The Saints are 0-3 without QB Derek Carr since acquiring him ahead of the 2023 season.  
• Commanders head coach Dan Quinn was 3-2 in games off a bye as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons between 2015 and 2020.
• The Saints defense ranks last in the NFL in rushing yards allowed per attempt (5.0).
• The Commanders offense ranks 5th in the NFL in rushing yards per attempt (4.9).
• The Commanders offense ranks top-10 in the NFL in fourth down conversion percentage (86.7% - 1st), third down conversion percentage (44.1% - 6th), and red zone touchdown percentage (60% - 8th).
• The Saints defense ranks top-10 in the NFL in fourth down conversion percentage allowed (40.9% - 3rd), third down conversion percentage allowed (35.6% - 9th), and red zone touchdown percentage allowed (50% - 8th).

What Commanders HC Dan Quinn said...

On the difficulty of preparing for a team when you don’t know the starting quarterback: "You’d really think about the system, because Coach Kubiak [New Orleans Saints Offensive Coordinator Klink Kubiak] in this system, although there's tape on all three quarterbacks, you want to look at what's the team do? And most of the time, not all the time, but most of the time if we had changed a player, you still run that system. It's not so different that one's this way and one's that way."

On the things he wants the team to clean up: "There's a number of things, but when you’re kind of, you can't pick 30 things, right? So, there's some line of scrimmage stuff that we wanted to make sure on both sides, the lead sled dogs. We're getting the right looks for the right guys and putting them in the right spaces. And so, those we want, we're always going to dig in on third down always. And then the winning time moments as the season goes along and the air gets a little thinner, you gotta keep executing at a really high level."

On how much one defender like Marshon Lattimore can boost a defense: “Yeah, I think any defender, it's a lot of positions you could say that for. I think specifically with Marshon, that's a big deal for us to add a player of his caliber to our team."

What Commanders QB Jayden Daniels said...

On how he gets back into a football mindset after the bye week: “Nah, man, I mean, I kind of stay in that mode. I know what's ahead of us and we gotta go out there and compete and try to win some football games. But I mean, it's always good to step back for a minute and kind of just reset and take the football hat off and just, we could be able to go out there and be a regular person."

On facing the Saints this week: “It is going to be fun. I mean, I played football down the road, so I went to a couple other games. I was blessed to go to a couple other games and it's going to be fun. It is going to be a good challenge. They're a good team. Superdome gets pretty loud and they're rolling, so we'll go out there, we'll see what we could do and compete against them.”

On how much he thinks about the playoffs with four weeks to go: “I mean, you can't really hide from any of that. I mean, you turn on your phone, you see stuff like that. So, it is not really an unknown, but it is like focused on the little things. Obviously, everybody go around this time who's able to be a part that wants to be in the playoffs, but we can't focus on four weeks from now."

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