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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by rezburna Drew’s play in the playoffs is a large reason we were only a play away over the last four years. He was mediocre and often exposed in the offs for his inability to push the ball ...
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02-05-2022, 08:16 PM | #31 |
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Re: Piecing Together a Russell Wilson Trade for the Saints
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I will politely disagree our teams were good enough to win it all last four years with Drew. If you want to put all the blame on Drew's supposed greed go ahead but what I saw was Mickey playing the CAP like a composer and we never went wanting. Always seemed to add in coveted free agents while in CAP hell.
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02-05-2022, 08:33 PM | #32 |
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Re: Piecing Together a Russell Wilson Trade for the Saints
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I blame about 60% on Brees, 20% Payton, 20% on rotten luck.
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02-05-2022, 09:35 PM | #36 |
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You know other sad franchises (just like ours was, sorry to say) honor the QB that was instrumental in bringing the trophy to a team that most of us never thought we'd even get to the dance, much less win it. I guess you are the other guy.
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02-05-2022, 11:04 PM | #37 |
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Oh nah. I love Drew Brees. I love Sean Payton. I’m glad it was him. I wouldn’t have traded him for Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, or Aaron Rodgers. But what I’m not going to do is lie about what I see. My dad noticed it first as early as 2012. He was saying the league had moved on and we might need to think about making a change at QB and coach. I disagreed and disagreed but after the Minnesota Miracle game it really hit me: his pinpoint accuracy and genius football mind can give us a chance but the inability to stretch the ball down the field is going to keep us from getting number two. It happened every time we got into the playoffs and faced a decent defense. Our teams were better than all of them, but Brees held us back. Doesn’t mean he isn’t a HOF’er. Doesn’t mean he didn’t play at a high level, but his deficiencies later in his career limited what made this offense explosive. Half the playbook was off limits because he couldn’t get it deep.
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02-06-2022, 05:55 AM | #38 |
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Re: Piecing Together a Russell Wilson Trade for the Saints
Originally Posted by rezburna
Agreed, and its not a slander of Brees at all.
In the Playoffs the last few years, the opposition defensive scheme was simple; Double Mike Thomas, leave a spy on Kamara in the flats. Because that basically was our offense and teams knew it. The minute they did that, they dared guys like Trequan to beat them, which couldn't happen and Brees couldn't stretch the field enough to keep the D honest. |
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Re: Piecing Together a Russell Wilson Trade for the Saints
It was around 2016-17. Brees deep ball was fading. He still could thread the needle on 30-35 yds. downfield at that time. Our problem was Payton wouldn't commit to the run game and Thomas was the main focus, made it easy for DC's to figure us out. He tried his best to make Kamara into Marshall Faulk and it never worked which also limited our O.
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