jeanpierre

If you watch with an honest eye, he's throwing more ducks and his downfield accuracy is no where near what it was three years ago...

His experience has been able to offset his decline to this point...

Also, teams no longer game plan for him to pull the ball down and take off as he's reluctant to do so...

The team's resultant record is a direct correlation to two thing concerning Brees:

One, his contract made it somewhat prohibitive to re-sign Nicks (team should have gone all in then, if they were going to keep Brees at 20mil+, then they should have kept his protection intact as well) and other quality free agents on the offensive line...

Two, teams now stack the upper two thirds of the field now as they are not as threatened of the deep ball when the Saints could easily stretch the field making them so dangerous, as Brees no longer converts deep throws at the rate he used to, you've got congestion on the mid and shorter routes, bumping the receivers off their spots, slowing down the Saints once high-octane offense...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

Jack Vegas

Nobody argues that. However, the question is, is this the result of having the pocket pushed back in his face. I think it is. Brees is a rhythm QB, he needs to have all his fundamentals working to throw it well. When you can't step up in the pocket, set your feet and follow through on your throwing motion you're going to start throwing ducks and missing your target. You can go out in your backyard with a tennis ball and try it yourself.