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07-11-2012 03:43 AM |
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Originally Posted by x626xBlack
(Post 417581)
Brees with San Francisco's Defense would be a top team.. Better off? Depends on how you look at it. If SF offered him the contract he wanted... financially he would be better off. If offensive production fell off 25 percent in SF the defense would make up for it.
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Sure he'd be a little better off financially, which is why I said he'd have to make a choice of what's more important to him. As for the 49ers defense, they're alright right now, but in the era of the salary cap you can only place an emphasis on one side of the ball, and hope you get lucky on the other side. That being said, eventually the 49ers are going to have to pay some big bucks on their younger defensive players. If they commit 23 million or more a year on Drew, they won't be able to retain many of those players. It's a matter of stability that I'm trying to explain.
Things are constantly changing in the NFL. Dominant teams rise and fall just as quickly. But when I look back over the last 15 years, the only teams who have had any type of sustained success have been the Colts (until last year of course) and the Patriots. It takes a rare type of shrewd franchise to establish more than just a year or two of success in this age of the game. The Saints have shown all the characteristics of being the next team in that class. We've been a title contender for the last three years, have made the players 4 times in 6 years, but even when we went through that two year stretch of missing the playoffs we were able to keep the core of the team together. The ability to scout and develop so many under the radar players and turn them into stars, or at the very least major contributors, has been the key ingredient to this run and it's what separates us from other franchises.
Why would anyone want to walk away from that? Peyton Manning didn't want to leave the Colts, I'm quite sure of that. But he had no choice, because they felt that they had to be proactive in taking who they believe is their next franchise quarterback, and using the money they would have given to Manning to help build a team around Andrew Luck, rather than play out the string with Manning.
Those are the kinds of decisions that a good franchise has to make. But Drew, unlike Peyton, has a choice. Nobody is kicking him out the door. But if it's all about the money, then I guess he'll walk. I hope not.
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