Our offense has always survived the injury bug. Credit Brees for that. Defense is another story. So many injuries in the backfield year in and year out for 4 years isn't just happenstance. Somebody is doing something wrong with that position group.

That being said this thread is just silly. Way to early to worry about any of that. Don't worry I'm sure your fantasy football stats are safe. Relax and take a deep breath and quit posting asinine things.

Cooks is in New England now. Get over it! Not like we traded Jerry Rice or Randy Moss.

You'll get over it when you see the explosive year Gronk has not had since 2011 with Cooks drawing defenses, leaving him open. Little does anyone know if we do not beat the pats that team could very well go 16-0. We gave the pats another explosive 07-like offense.

And you will also get over it if Thomas gets hurt and the offense plays like 2014.

I could care less about Gronk, Cooks, Brady, and the Patriots. Your if Thomas gets hurt applies to every team. What if Cooks and Brady get hurt? How is Gronks back by the way? Our offense goes through Drew! You should be more concerned with the health of Armstead, Peat, Unger, Warford, Strief. Keep Drew upright. We lost Sproles, Graham, Bush, etc and kept rolling. Heck If PJ Williams, Breaux, Rankins, Ellerbe, Kikaha etc had not been injured, we may have made the playoffs last year.

Lol. Ok. I understand if we have an injury at a critical position, but that's like running thru life saying "what if?".

Bottom line is that you can't just lose your **** because of a possibility. Injuries are part of the game man. And there's little doubt in my mind that Payton will have someone ready to step up. Man you weren't around for the days when this offense ran like a well oiled machine without big name receivers. I know it was before Payton (and probably before you as well), but do you think Joe Horn was awesome before he came to NOLA? Hell I think he was cut by multiple teams. There was Willie Jackson, Poole, Floyd and so on. Dude Colston was a 7th round draft pick out of a school that no longer has a football program.

Hell look at Lance Moore and even Willie Snead. The list goes on and on.

The Saints, especially under Payton, always have WRs ready to jump in and catch passes from Brees.

Would I freak out if Thomas got hurt? Of course. But I have more confidence in this program and it's development of WRs then any other before it, and there were some good ones.