Teddy is more like Drew than any other QB on the planet
 

Re: Teddy is more like Drew than any other QB on the planet
 

I read about half the article... Some of these websites like the Advocate have so much unrelated crap & advertisements on their page that it takes forever to load the damn page just to read the article.

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I understand, but it's the only way they can stay in business. I started in newspapers over forty years ago and my college roommate/best man/fellow photographer just retired a couple of months ago from the Raleigh News & Observer. We've talked about his very subject many times leading up to his retirement. You are not alone. People would read a print article through, but when battling popups and such the average person seldom reads past the first few paragraphs, or for many, the headline, which is much worse.

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If you are looking at this on a CPU, get Ublock, works wonders for the never ending ads that pop up. I think you can use it on your phone to if I am not mistaken but I am not 100% on that.

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My g/f is a social media marketing & advertisement guru. This is what happens... I know this first hand... these marketing experts with their high powered computers with their jet fast internet connections come up with all these cute vids & graphics to "wow, inspire, and grab attention", and they do it in the highest possible resolution which makes the "popup Ad" not only annoying but it's a big layered program that is not designed for the average computer. It looks real cute when they run it on their end, but when I try to open a page on an average personal computer it takes forever to load. I've had this conversation many times with these marketing over-educated over-creative dummies.

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Agree. Spent the past twenty-five year in systems and design along with their business applications. I was always always trying to get systems to coexist with the lowest common user platform.

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Use a different browser... it may help. Try Brave, for mobile or computer. It does a great job blocking these kinds of things.

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yeah, I could do all that, but the webpage designers could also design a webpage that doesn't piss people off. Black-and-Gold.c0m doesn't piss me off. This webpage has all kinds of moving parts, portals, and even Ads yet it's very user friendly and doesn't make green smoke boil out of my hard drive.

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Damn CharityMike... that avatar has an A$$.


The key elements of the Drew Brees mythos are almost as famous in New Orleans as the man himself.

A schoolboy star from one of the nation's most fertile recruiting hotbeds, spurned by his state's flagship schools. Forced to play at a school that comes in somewhere south of a traditional powerhouse, he played his way into the Heisman conversation and lifted the program along with him, only to find out the NFL was more worried about his size than his production.

All of those slights produced a chip on his shoulder big enough to bring him back from an injury that could have ended his career.

Know who else fits that description?

Teddy Bridgewater.

Not every detail fits perfectly, because no two humans are exactly alike.

But all the elements are there.

Brees went undefeated in 29 games as a starter at Austin Westlake, a burgeoning Texas high school power. Bridgewater took Miami Northwestern, another legendary program to the state semifinals.

Both quarterbacks found themselves snubbed in one way or another in the recruiting process. Brees was famously passed over by both Texas, Texas A&M and most of the rest of the country.

Bridgewater had a little more freedom to choose. A four-star prospect who was ranked the No. 2 dual-threat quarterback in the country, Bridgewater got offers from a lot of power programs — including LSU — but Florida recruited him as a wide receiver, the path a lot of programs wanted him to take.

Bridgewater, convinced he was a quarterback, spent most of the process committed to a down-on-its-luck Miami during the Randy Shannon era, then jumped to a Louisville team bouncing back from the Steve Kragthorpe era under Charlie Strong after Shannon was fired.

Brees and Bridgewater lifted both Purdue and Louisville to new heights, only to see their games picked apart when they entered the NFL draft.

A lot of the criticisms were the same. Brees was knocked for his height and his lack of arm strength; Bridgewater is two inches taller than Brees — still not tall enough to fit NFL prototypes — but got knocked for his thin frame, and his perceived lack of arm strength created concerns. Both quarterbacks were also hit for completing a lot of short and intermediate throws in college, even though the NFL passing game has been populated with more and more of those throws as teams get more efficient.

For those reasons, both quarterbacks had to wait until the 32nd pick to hear their names called on draft day.

But hints of what might make Brees and Bridgewater successful in the NFL were also written in those scouting reports. Both players are highly competitive, obsessively driven athletes who soak up information like a sponge; both were highly accurate in college and played with the toughness needed to take an NFL pounding.

Offered early chances to start in San Diego and Minnesota, respectively, Brees and Bridgewater led their teams to the playoffs early in their careers.

Then tragedy struck. At the end of the 2005 season, Brees famously dislocated his throwing shoulder and tore his labrum. Bridgewater's injury was worse; the former Vikings quarterback suffered a dislocated knee and tore all but one ligament in the joint, according to ESPN, an injury that took more than one season to heal.

For a while, the NFL wondered if both quarterbacks would ever be able to play again, and the teams that drafted Brees and Bridgewater decided to let them leave and pursue their comebacks elsewhere while they went with options that required more investment.

New Orleans might end up being the site of third-act redemption for both.

An origin story only becomes important if it sets up the legend; Brees' story is household information because of the Hall of Fame career that followed once he suited up with the Saints.

Bridgewater's ending still has to be written. After a promising preseason in New York, Bridgewater has shown enough potential to earn a chance, to prove that all of that competitive fire, intelligence and accuracy is enough to overcome incredible adversity, the way Brees already has.

But Bridgewater is only on a one-year deal, and if he's anything like Brees, the Saints' new quarterback isn't going to want to wait around to prove everybody wrong again.

Whether or not this familiar tale ends up playing out the same way in New Orleans again might depend on how much of the original story remains to be told.

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I bet he won't even be on the rooster in two years.