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In the four decades before Drew Brees and Sean Payton arrived, the New Orleans Saints finished only two seasons with a top-five offense: the high-flying 1979 team led by Archie Manning, Chuck Muncie and Henry Childs and the 1969 team, which competed in the pre-merger 16-team NFL.

In the decade since Brees and Payton took control in 2006, the Saints have led the league five times and finished in the top five every year but 2010, when they finished sixth. In the same span, they have led the league in scoring offense twice and finished in the top 10 eight times.

It's an almost unprecedented run of offensive prolificacy. The Saints' average of 403.2 yards per game over the past decade is the highest in NFL history. Their average of 27.4 points per game in the same span is second only to the current New England Patriots (29.1).




No NFL team has generated this much offense for this long since the great San Francisco 49ers teams of the 1980s and mid-1990s. Statistically, the Saints are putting up historic numbers that rank with the greatest offenses in NFL history.

And if they keep it up, they very well could one day claim the mantle as the greatest offense of all-time.

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