Shooting the Brees

LKelley67 · 03-13-2006, 01:03 PM

hey all, hope to be back a little more. i 've been way out of commission working in st. bernard parish. i would jump in all the drew brees talk but hopefully it will be resolved by the end of the day or tomorrow. we'll then be talking about what other FAs are possible to sign and what the draft strategy will be. the brees thing did remind me of a "If I Were GM" proposal i threw out after the '04 season. either it was in the pre '05 posts that are gone or i just can't find it. anyhoo it was something like this:

trade brooks to the niners (to be with mccarthy) for whatever draft pick you could get. they could then pick benson, brown, or williams at RB #1

trade howard to sd (they needed an edge guy) with a 3-4 rd pick for brees. (they wanted a #1 or high #2 at the time).
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my take is that brees would be a good addition. this team has enough talent to go from 3-13 to division winner with the right coaching and personnel moves. in fact, has anyone mentioned that the past few years the last place nfc south team has won the division the next year? i do think leinart is the best QB prospect since manning. still, the risk of QB prospects is so very high, a whole lot more busts than winners. i'd feel very happy with brees with d'brick on the left and brown on the right or brees with a.j. hawk added to the D.
one more, i may have missed it posted here but i read somewhere that payton made the decision to go after brees rather than bet on leinart from counsel with bill parcells. if anyone is leery of young QBs it is parcells, LOL.

03-13-2006, 01:03 PM	#1
LKelley67 1000 Posts + Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: baton rouge Posts: 2,540	Shooting the Brees hey all, hope to be back a little more. i 've been way out of commission working in st. bernard parish. i would jump in all the drew brees talk but hopefully it will be resolved by the end of the day or tomorrow. we'll then be talking about what other FAs are possible to sign and what the draft strategy will be. the brees thing did remind me of a "If I Were GM" proposal i threw out after the '04 season. either it was in the pre '05 posts that are gone or i just can't find it. anyhoo it was something like this: trade brooks to the niners (to be with mccarthy) for whatever draft pick you could get. they could then pick benson, brown, or williams at RB #1 trade howard to sd (they needed an edge guy) with a 3-4 rd pick for brees. (they wanted a #1 or high #2 at the time). ~~~~~ my take is that brees would be a good addition. this team has enough talent to go from 3-13 to division winner with the right coaching and personnel moves. in fact, has anyone mentioned that the past few years the last place nfc south team has won the division the next year? i do think leinart is the best QB prospect since manning. still, the risk of QB prospects is so very high, a whole lot more busts than winners. i'd feel very happy with brees with d'brick on the left and brown on the right or brees with a.j. hawk added to the D. one more, i may have missed it posted here but i read somewhere that payton made the decision to go after brees rather than bet on leinart from counsel with bill parcells. if anyone is leery of young QBs it is parcells, LOL.