Boston Saint

Brees toolbox at the time included recovery from broken ribs. Doesn’t change that he would still be a top 10 QB and clearly starting over Winston or Hill and throwing for 20+ TDs and about 4000 yards if he was on the team. I guess machine was the wrong word to use about Cook but he disappeared from big games regularly. There’s obviously a reason he’s bounced around so much in the league.

My points are these. Brees was better last year than many other Super Bowl winning QBs have been, especially before the broken ribs. Teams certainly weren’t beating the Saints by squatting down on them...their blow out win against Tampa and other games from last year prove that. When healthy players were on the field they were more than effective. Brees was not solely (IMO even primarily) to blame for the playoff loss. Those are just my opinions of course. Brees has always been the type of player who takes responsibility, self criticizes, and avoids throwing fellow players under the bus. It doesn’t surprise me at all that he makes these statements about himself in an interview. It doesn’t mean he could not step in and still play.

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