Euphoria

I always thought it would open our offense up more that he is gone. It is so much easier to hit his target than anyone else might as well dump it off... what that did was limit the touches to the other big play makers. This way it forces to spread the ball around more and get it to players with speed.

burningmetal

I long thought and said the same thing about spreading it around. Trading Jimmy was one of the few moves I have liked over the last few years by the Saints. All I heard from certain fans and pundits was that we wouldn't have a redzone target... As if that's really a thing. You throw it to the guy who's open.

The Saints far too often wanted to MAKE Jimmy the target, not only in the redzone, but on just about all third down plays when EVERYONE knew where the ball was going. So Jimmy had his numbers, but we had a lot of drives killed over the course of the season.

Now that Drew looks healthy, people can finally see what some of us were talking about. If our Offensive line wasn't so bad, it would be far better, but imagine if we hadn't gotten Unger...

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.