Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

UM, Ok read.

"Brees spoke to Sports Illustrated after the game about the "frustrating" 2014 season, where the Saints finished 7-9 and missed the playoffs.

"It was my most frustrating season," the 36-year-old quarterback said. "You never want to go 7-9. It's no fun."

Brees added that after meeting with coach Sean Payton and general manager Mickey Loomis he feels much more confident that next season will have a different outcome, with "a lot of work" of course."

Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports | NOLA.com

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

Tick, tick goes the clock.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

Perhaps the contract not allowing to keep our guards of Evans and Nicks intact?!?

Perhaps tying up too much money in bad contracts in Grubbs, Hawthorne, Lofton, Byrd and Galette?!?

Perhaps those stellar moves in the draft these past five years?!?

Perhaps failing to address coaching changes long past due?!?

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

They said the same thing after every loss....

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

Exactly...
They have known what the problem is for some time during the season. They just didn't know how to fix it.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

This is the standard answer, what are they supposed to say? We have no clue how to fix it mail in the check for next season too

That said, I believe that things will be different next season and we will see more effort

Hope

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

I said from the start they rid the team of the leaders , it was gonna hurt, lack of concentration , consistently maintaining drives, brees to me just pregame rap needs to carry in games. swollen contract heads. some of the big time players need someone in their ears to preform, its always been known. why the head honchos didn't see it who knows but have to get it worked out.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

It is really incredible how much more knowledgeable many of our forum members are than the so called professionals running the franchise. I totally respect the fact that they all have shunned surefire careers in Sports Management to work at their current jobs which have to be at a far more miniscule salary. Such amazing sacrifice.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

Giant holes opened up on the D allowing Rb.'s to pound the rock at will, players running around with no clue who to cover, players constantly out of position, no tackling, and this is only a fraction of what the D did. On the O, pi$$ poor effert catching the ball, opposing D's man-handling the O like puppets on a string, pick 6's, int.'s. underthrows and I could go on. And all of this comes from just watchiing the games on T.V. but I do have eyes!! 7-9 pretty well sums it up, we were lucky to not lose more than that with this team.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

I identified it in all but like 3 games...lack of effort

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

No doubt. But just because a person is intelligent and knows basically what makes up the human body and watched enough educational television to know some basics on how to remove an appendix, I would rather leave that to the experts and trust their opinion on whether or not removal is warranted.

By the way, I am a sports information geek and I would never propose that I would ever be able to know what is going on with any operation without being on the inside on a day to day basis.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

Well considering first that football isn't rocket science except for maybe certain members of sports management (i.e. Matt Millen)...

But common laypersons never will have the opportunity to work in sports management as many positions are filled either by nepotism or political correctness...

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

Listen to Matt Millen and Rick Venturi and you have to have to be impressed. Rick Venturi is 2-17 as a head coach. We know about Matt Millen as a GM.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

I really can't agree that we were without veteran leadership on either side of the ball. If Brees, Colston, Thomas, Evans, Strief, Grubbs, Goodwin, Meachem, Watson, etc. is not enough quality mature people then I don't know what is. I would say we have a more veteran core on offense than close to any team in the league. There is zero excuse for our offense lacking leadership.

On defense yes we lost Harper and Jenkins, but we still had Lofton, Hawthorne, Haralyson, Bunkley, Lewis, and the acquisition of Byrd as vets. Jordan strikes me as a mature guy as does Bush and Robinson.

There are only a handful of players I would assume require veteran mentoring to not go off track and I too would have thought we had it in place and a strong enough locker room to deal with that.

I have to admit, I am in the same boat as the team appears to be. I can see what is wrong, I just don't know what the magic missing piece is. Perhaps it is simply understanding that the whole organization drank the kool aid and we are a 7-9 team who needs plain and simple effort, dedication and execution to be better than that.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

Draft suckage is number 1.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

They should just go back to the bounty. They were more productive then.

:dunce:

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

As someone who plays fantasy sports, its pretty easy to see how many personnel problems there really are.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

Its a fan forum. What do you want? everyone to mindlessly cheer at everything? That would be fun and interesting to read.

It is a place where people talk, vent and sometimes learn.

What, though, do snide judgments achieve?

I just use a long stick when patting myself on the back.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

I've played fantasy sports myself for over twenty years. Yes, we can see what we feel are personnel problems, but what we have no clue about are the underlying circumstances. What we attempt to critique from the outside may very well have logical explanations only known to those in the front office or in the locker rooms.

But, carrying the fantasy scenario along, no matter how knowledgeable you are as a fantasy team owner there are many things that are outside of your control that can keep you from having a successful season. Best laid plans are crushed by draft position and injuries.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

I agree that this is what the forums are for. My "snide" comments are simply my way of venting. I for one, can admit that while I know quite a bit about sports, in general, NFL in particular, business (accounting and legal), and quite a bit of other useless information, I could not ever even imagine that I could possibly know more about administering an NFL franchise than those professionals doing the actual job.

I just find it amusing when some fans think they have the answers when there is no possible way for them to know even a fraction of the questions.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

I can't stand brats. We had a brat in my old neighborhood. I hated that kid.

Quit being so pompous. You're only impressing yourself.

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

'Tis the season to be pompous, didn'cha know?

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

The responses at the bottom of the article were just ignorance about our bounty program.:dunce:

Re: Drew Brees thinks the Saints have 'identified the problems' that led to a 7-9 season, magazine reports
 

I didn't read the comments. I don't even think I read the article, however my comment was just a bad joke. I can only imagine what some of the jackasses are still saying about the "bounty program" and believing what they are saying.