Drew’s Final Regular Season Game?

Boston Saint · 01-04-2021, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by gosaints1

Exactly, This^^.

Can anybody guess the difference between any previous 6-10 season and not being in the playoffs, to the 13-3 NFC South championship team from last year?

Absolutely nothing.

DB#9 has led this team to multiple losing record seasons, 5 to be exact, along with one .500 season, since 2006. His conference championship record is a paltry 1-2, and a very good argument can be made that the 2009 NFC championship game should have been a loss. iirc (I was at that game, first year of season tickets), Minn fumbled the ball 6 times, losing three of those fumbles, along with throwing two interceptions. The fact that we, the home team, needed overtime to win that game isn’t exactly a positive in my book.

The idea that the Saints are a 6 win team, at best, without DB#9 makes little sense. And it devalues every other player who is busting their chops week in/week out. This is a very good team, when healthy, even with DB#9 on the sidelines.

I’m sorry, but with all due respect I completely disagree. During some of these 6-10 seasons you complain about Drew was 5,000 yards passing and the best QB in the league while the D was setting records for being historically bad. Looking back at past years and trying to blame the QB play for not getting a second SB title is way off.

R Wilson is still trying to win his second SB. So is Rogers. Manning had to ride the coattails of a historically good D to get his second. Stafford, Ryan, Newton, Rivers, Romo, Smith and dozens of first round draft pick QBs never got even one.

The question is how is the best way to move forward. Even if we ignore the money/cap situation (A silly thing to do) the way Brees has performed this year considering the massive amount of injuries the Saints have had to endure to the offensive skill positions tells me that he is still able to perform at
A level that matches or exceeds most other QBs that would be a available in the off season.

01-04-2021, 01:15 PM	#11
Boston Saint 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Nov 2020 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 5,137	Re: Drew’s Final Regular Season Game? Originally Posted by gosaints1 Exactly, This^^. Can anybody guess the difference between any previous 6-10 season and not being in the playoffs, to the 13-3 NFC South championship team from last year? Absolutely nothing. DB#9 has led this team to multiple losing record seasons, 5 to be exact, along with one .500 season, since 2006. His conference championship record is a paltry 1-2, and a very good argument can be made that the 2009 NFC championship game should have been a loss. iirc (I was at that game, first year of season tickets), Minn fumbled the ball 6 times, losing three of those fumbles, along with throwing two interceptions. The fact that we, the home team, needed overtime to win that game isn’t exactly a positive in my book. The idea that the Saints are a 6 win team, at best, without DB#9 makes little sense. And it devalues every other player who is busting their chops week in/week out. This is a very good team, when healthy, even with DB#9 on the sidelines. I’m sorry, but with all due respect I completely disagree. During some of these 6-10 seasons you complain about Drew was 5,000 yards passing and the best QB in the league while the D was setting records for being historically bad. Looking back at past years and trying to blame the QB play for not getting a second SB title is way off. R Wilson is still trying to win his second SB. So is Rogers. Manning had to ride the coattails of a historically good D to get his second. Stafford, Ryan, Newton, Rivers, Romo, Smith and dozens of first round draft pick QBs never got even one. The question is how is the best way to move forward. Even if we ignore the money/cap situation (A silly thing to do) the way Brees has performed this year considering the massive amount of injuries the Saints have had to endure to the offensive skill positions tells me that he is still able to perform at A level that matches or exceeds most other QBs that would be a available in the off season. Halo, iceshack149, jnormand and 5 others like this.
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