For the Brooks Bashers

seraph33 · 11-16-2003, 05:43 PM

Bottom line:

Brooks is just a streaky player. He will never be the franchise QB we all would like him to be. Is he a starter quality . . . yes, but if you ask me I think he will end up having a career similar to Jeff Blake. A good starter if given the proper weapons but not stellar because he is simply not consistent. Don\'t get me wrong Brooks will have his really great games, but he will have equally as many games that make you wanna climb the walls, like today\'s. Now I know some posters feel that he is garbage. Clearly he isn\'t. The guy has a ton of talent. That talent shows up about half of the time (Usually if at the end of a game we win, if at the begining we usually lose). Also there are some posters who think he is just about as good as Brett Favre. They usually post statistics and such which can get a good way to gauge a player but not in this case. For this season Aaron Brooks has played really well about half the time and really bad about half the time. Now some people will say well look he only had one or two bad games and say look at his TD-INT ratio. Trust me it would be much higher if Duece wasn\'t running for 100 yards a game as proven today in the first half. Yes Brooks didn\'t have very good protection for much of the time but those 2 picks were simply aweful and products of him being scared of that blitz. The first one he never even looked to the side he threw. A 3rd year starter should never make that play.

Now I am not bashing Brooks, I am merely stating that he is a hot and cold QB. He will win us some games but the games that he is cold we have to hope that we get production out of Duece that day or we will lose. Should he be traded? Not unless there is a really juicy opportunity. Should the Saints at least keep an eye out for an upgrade . . . definately if there is an opportunity. Brooks will keep us competitve as long as he has weapons like Duece and Horn. Will he take us to the promiseland . . . I don\'t think so but you never know. . . Trent Dilfer won a Superbowl. Still if I were a betting man I would bet that the Saints wouldn\'t get to the Superbowl with Brooks . . . he isn\'t consistent enough.

Now my top 5 draft needs:
1. O-linemen - we have traded all our depth at this position. Time to reload.
2. Linebacker - we just don\'t have that stand out guy we need to lock our Defense
3. Cornerback - whilel they have been playing solid football as of late . . . in a year or two this group will resemble the old man fall out of the Raiders.
4. Runningback - while I do like Kijana Carter . . . God help us if Duece goes down.
5. Quarterback - we need a back-up anyways and could possibly land a stellar one if things fall right.

[Edited on 16/11/2003 by seraph33]

11-16-2003, 05:43 PM	#8
seraph33 Registered Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Baton Rouge Posts: 68	For the Brooks Bashers Bottom line: Brooks is just a streaky player. He will never be the franchise QB we all would like him to be. Is he a starter quality . . . yes, but if you ask me I think he will end up having a career similar to Jeff Blake. A good starter if given the proper weapons but not stellar because he is simply not consistent. Don\'t get me wrong Brooks will have his really great games, but he will have equally as many games that make you wanna climb the walls, like today\'s. Now I know some posters feel that he is garbage. Clearly he isn\'t. The guy has a ton of talent. That talent shows up about half of the time (Usually if at the end of a game we win, if at the begining we usually lose). Also there are some posters who think he is just about as good as Brett Favre. They usually post statistics and such which can get a good way to gauge a player but not in this case. For this season Aaron Brooks has played really well about half the time and really bad about half the time. Now some people will say well look he only had one or two bad games and say look at his TD-INT ratio. Trust me it would be much higher if Duece wasn\'t running for 100 yards a game as proven today in the first half. Yes Brooks didn\'t have very good protection for much of the time but those 2 picks were simply aweful and products of him being scared of that blitz. The first one he never even looked to the side he threw. A 3rd year starter should never make that play. Now I am not bashing Brooks, I am merely stating that he is a hot and cold QB. He will win us some games but the games that he is cold we have to hope that we get production out of Duece that day or we will lose. Should he be traded? Not unless there is a really juicy opportunity. Should the Saints at least keep an eye out for an upgrade . . . definately if there is an opportunity. Brooks will keep us competitve as long as he has weapons like Duece and Horn. Will he take us to the promiseland . . . I don\'t think so but you never know. . . Trent Dilfer won a Superbowl. Still if I were a betting man I would bet that the Saints wouldn\'t get to the Superbowl with Brooks . . . he isn\'t consistent enough. Now my top 5 draft needs: 1. O-linemen - we have traded all our depth at this position. Time to reload. 2. Linebacker - we just don\'t have that stand out guy we need to lock our Defense 3. Cornerback - whilel they have been playing solid football as of late . . . in a year or two this group will resemble the old man fall out of the Raiders. 4. Runningback - while I do like Kijana Carter . . . God help us if Duece goes down. 5. Quarterback - we need a back-up anyways and could possibly land a stellar one if things fall right. [Edited on 16/11/2003 by seraph33]