What if's quesiton: Jeff Blake

TheGambler · 07-20-2014, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Vegas

I sincerely doubt that. There was a reason that dude was on 5 different teams in 5 years. By the time he got to the Saints he was already past his prime (his last good season before that was '96 and this was 2001, keep in mind), and he was not the kind of QB who is going to win you many games with defenses as bad as the Saints had back then.

If this is supposed to be take-a-poke-at-Aaron-Brooks-time, more power to ya I guess, but he and Blake were pretty much the same exact guy.

I don't know that I'd say they were the same guy......but by and large I agree with a lot of your post. But even though I don't think they were the same guy, I do believe that if Blake hadn't gotten hurt, basically the same thing would have happened............they've have probably gotten into the playoffs in 00.......maybe even woulda won that game........but then in 01 they'd have come right back down to earth, to like 7-9 or 8-8. Brooks would have probably been the starting QB by 2002......2003 at the latest. Then you have to wonder, if that had happened......would we have gotten Brees? Because how can you be sure that the Saints would have been fully certain Brooks wasn't the answer by 06, if he didn't start until 02 or 03, as opposed to 00 ? For those of you who like having Brees around, maybe you should be glad Brooks played as long as he did, instead of of tossing around this ridiculous "what if?" about Blake that always seems to come up every time people somehow forget just how dangerous Brooks was as a QB early in his career.

07-20-2014, 11:52 PM	#11
TheGambler 500th Post Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 610	Re: What if's quesiton: Jeff Blake Originally Posted by Jack Vegas I sincerely doubt that. There was a reason that dude was on 5 different teams in 5 years. By the time he got to the Saints he was already past his prime (his last good season before that was '96 and this was 2001, keep in mind), and he was not the kind of QB who is going to win you many games with defenses as bad as the Saints had back then. If this is supposed to be take-a-poke-at-Aaron-Brooks-time, more power to ya I guess, but he and Blake were pretty much the same exact guy. I don't know that I'd say they were the same guy......but by and large I agree with a lot of your post. But even though I don't think they were the same guy, I do believe that if Blake hadn't gotten hurt, basically the same thing would have happened............they've have probably gotten into the playoffs in 00.......maybe even woulda won that game........but then in 01 they'd have come right back down to earth, to like 7-9 or 8-8. Brooks would have probably been the starting QB by 2002......2003 at the latest. Then you have to wonder, if that had happened......would we have gotten Brees? Because how can you be sure that the Saints would have been fully certain Brooks wasn't the answer by 06, if he didn't start until 02 or 03, as opposed to 00 ? For those of you who like having Brees around, maybe you should be glad Brooks played as long as he did, instead of of tossing around this ridiculous "what if?" about Blake that always seems to come up every time people somehow forget just how dangerous Brooks was as a QB early in his career.
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