Should Aaron Brooks make the Saints Hall of Fame one day?
 

First Saints QB to win a Playoff game.
First Saints QB to break many of Archie's records.
From 2001-2004 never threw for under 3500 yards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_B...rican_football)

Personally I think he'll make it one day. The guy did put in a few good seasons with Mike McCarthy as OC. When Mike left, the whole Haz regime went down. No doubt Brooks needed Mike McCarthy to be successful.

Like him or hate him, the stats are there and the history was written. So should he one day make the Saints HOF?

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Its hard to ignore his stats..and at one time i felt he would lead us to the superbowl..i know Archie is more of a sentimental favorite..but Brooks numbers dont lie...i have to say yes...

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No.

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Wow...that is a really good question. My answer is YES. What he did in 2000 was heroic considering where he was in his career when he was called to duty. For me, that tips the scale in his direction.

:) <-------AB

Edit...oops...I meant 2000 :oops:

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I voted yes. Stats are stats.

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And remember who of threw most of those passes to Joe Horn...

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I guess the question is should stats alone be the determining factor. Because, in my opinion, smiling after playing lousy football should negate a point, or two.

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Stats don't tell the whole story, as always.

I can't forget the smiley grins after those boneheaded bad interceptions! AB caught lightning in a bottle for an extremely small glimpse in time. Once opposing teams had a chance to study him, he was average at best. And there were enough bad teams in his day to pad the numbers. He was not consistently stellar against elite competition, but rather more of a liability. Breesus has shown us what a HOF QB should look like. HOF'ers usually separate themselves more than what AB showed.

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Like him or not He should and deserves to be, multiple time pro bowl alternate, avg 3500 yds + his time here, the team even back then were a 2ndary away from doing damage the team was competitive up until 2005 ={ Everything considered turn overs shouldnt spoil a solid career give Jerry Fontenot credit for them also that guy always seemed screw up snaps a few times a game . my vote would be Yes

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would you rather have him look like the failcons coach an throw tantrums after TO's ?

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I voted yes. We did have a prolific offense under his helm... it's hard to argue with the numbers he put up. Now had we had a better history of successful quarterbacks in the past to stack him up against, maybe it would be a different story.

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The smiling was ridiculous! The good out weighed the bad for the most part though. Yes

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Makes me sick to say it but yes. Guess my anger should really be against the coaching staff for not replacing him sooner. So any future vote for Haz in the HOF would be no!

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i voted yes but the smiles alone made me get sick to my stomach and angry. i remember thinking this guy doesn't even care about something i care a lot for, why is he here....Haslett.

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I disagree. Brooks had a mediocre offensive line at best, a less-than-stellar WR corp (with one or two exceptions), and a defense that was giving up 30 points a game, not to mention the Delhomme love going on in the dome.

Where might Brooks have taken the team if the Offensive average of 28-30 points a game was getting any backing at all from the defense at the time? The Superbowl? Maybe. Maybe not.

Brooks was a good, not great, but a good QB who annoyed folks with his mannerisms but did a lot of good things, and might have done more with even a mediocre defense.

Personally I'd rather see Brooks smile than watch Delhomme pout, but that's just me. I say put him in.

:bng:

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All the Brooks hate has always rubbed me the wrong way...the boy could throw. He wasn't perfect but he could throw. SaintsHall=YES. One of the few QB's we had who could actually hit someone in stride beyond 17 yards. Mike Mac's exit was mentioned earlier as the end of Brooks, but I say Willie Roaf's exit got him killed. When his blind side came open, he was never the same. And what the %$#@ does smiling have to do with anything? He took things lightly so that he could move on; brush it off so he could line up and take another crack at it. QB's have to have a short memory...on the bad things as well as the good. Give Brooks his proper due.

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Where is Brooks now if he is so great?

Dammit look what i've started now

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He's investing in real estate back in VA where he's from last I heard.

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He is still trying to master the backwards pass...

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Not saying he is/was great...just #2 in our 40 years...was #1 unitl Brees showed up...that's all.

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Yes

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Only if every former and current Saint are suddenly called home.

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He's not even number 2 or 3, for that matter.

The following is a quick list of the top Saints QB's, IMHO.

#1 Drew Brees, a couple of more SB's and we can mention him in the same breath as Joe Montana.
#2 Archie Manning, great QB on team with really bad defenses
#3 Bobby Hebert, he gave us our best years before Brees despsite the not so clutch interceptions at crunch time.
#4 Jim Everett, our first decent QB after Archie
#5 Billy Kilmer, yeah he was old by the time he got to us
#6 Ken Stabler, he was at the tail end of his career too
#7 Aaron Brooks, Haslett kept him in there way too long and should have started Delhomme. Padded numbers pressure opinions to move him up undeservedly.
#8 All the rest of them

Here's the entire history of starting Saints QB's for those who are interested.

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This list is kinda confusing..Bobby gave us our best before Brees?..then Everett was a our first decent QB after Archie?...you lost me brother...:confused: Brooks has better stats than all of them except Brees...and he won us our first playoff..being a Saints fan that means a lot...lol

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I vote no.

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this has to be some sort of joke. he had one good season. stats can be misleading. i voted NO 4 times.

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Some not so recent media reports on Brooks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/27/sp.../27rhoden.html

Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Aaron Brooks has arm, will travel | NOLA.com

Aaron Brooks
"note here 26 fumbles lost and 92 intercetions" in case anyone has forgotten.
Average QB rating of....hold on to something now...... 78.5! Yooohoooo!

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This all courtesy of your favorite catman...lol

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great stats are only a piece of the HOF make-up... look at baseball's homeroun kings

I voted NO. We are becoming a team that will have legitimate HOF guys in the next 10 years. Let's not cheapen our HOF by just picking 'good' players for the sake of filling up the room. When we are inducting Brees, Vilma, Colston, Evans, PT, and maybe Shockey and Sharper, will we want to see the Brooks plaque hanging there also? next to Kilmer's??

Raise the standard

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Could not have said it better.

Reps for you!

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Brooks wasn't the greatest but he is still second best.

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All of the names you mention are 10 years away. :doh:

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Why not? He deserves it.

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For once I agree with Danno..lol...wow the culture did change...job well done Strat...

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my brain just vomited, because I thought.....well, yeah, I guess he does.

I will type it..... but none of you could ever make me speak it.

Yes, put him in.

Dear Lord, I can't believe I just typed that.

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Neither can I .... where's the soap? :mrgreen:

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I just tried "LAVA" soap and it doesn't work. Let me know when you find one that will make me "Feel clean" again. :-P

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Did i mistaken the subject here? i thought the title read Hall Of Fame...Brooks should go into the Hall of Shame

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Sorry FF, but you get -1 Rep just for suggesting this.

Statistics don't lie, but they don't tell the whole story, nor do they say anything but what you want them to say.

Yes, AB won our first playoff game. Thank you, Jeff Blake, for putting the team into position to get into the playoffs before you got injured. If AB had been the started the whole season, your statistic would have merit. Being a late season sub for Blake, winning a playoff game, and never being able to get us to the playoffs again? Yeah, that's HOF material. NOT.

Oh, and yes, he broke several of Archie's records. Big whoop, Archie and Aaron are polar opposites. Archie was a great QB with crappy stats, and Aaron was a crappy QB with great stats. When Archie played, he didn't have half the talent around him that Ab did, and the game of football ran differently back then. It's not a valid comparison.

Not to mention, yes, AB had lots of 3500+ yard seasons. And just how many of those yards were made during garbage time at the end of a hopelessly lost game? That is why AB was a great Fantasy QB, he couldn't get a win, but he always got the garbage time yards.


How can it be hard to ignore meaningless stats? Here is a stat for you. -1 Rep.


I thought better of you Papz, I truly did.


I believe he is retired and out of football, because no one in the NFL thought he was good enough to simply hold a clipboard and warm a bench with his ass.

It isn't like he wasn't wanted after he left the Saints though. Yes, the only person who would give him a job is the same guy who drafted JaMarcus Russel as the savior of his franchise. The same guy who passed on Crabtree. The guy who make people gag at the sheer stupidity of his personnel decisions. THAT guy thought Aaron Brooks was a good QB.


Well then, maybe we should hold off on his enshrinement and only put GREAT players in our HOF.


Indeed.