Are you ready to move on from Drew Brees? (1 Viewer)

[sammymvpknight]

Even when he’s unable to throw the ball it’ll be hard to see him go. But I’d be willing to suffer a year before and retain a good QB than suffer a year later and not have anyone at QB.

 

[Brock Meaux]

I voted yes, but it's not because I WANT to move on from Drew Brees. But for a couple years now, I've been preparing myself for the inevitable. I'm in a spot where I could go either way. Happy if he comes back, but ready to eventually find out what comes next.

 

[No2DC]

I roll with the New Orleans Saints, not the New Orleans Brees, Payton, or Loomis.

 

[Brennan77]

I voted yes, but it's not because I WANT to move on from Drew Brees. But for a couple years now, I've been preparing myself for the inevitable. I'm in a spot where I could go either way. Happy if he comes back, but ready to eventually find out what comes next.

Same. If you told me Brees was coming back, I'd be all in. But I'm also ready for the inevitable and I'm not blind to the fact that the Saints have a really talented core of young veterans that could be strengthened even more with a younger and cheaper QB. At this point, I'm just anxious to know which direction we will go.

 

[1badsailor]

Very much so. He needs to humble himself. He is not the best player on the offense these days. We need balance and indont thinknwe ever get balance with him at qb

 

[Quiet Storm]

I know this is unpopular, but Brees has been fading at the end of the seasons now for the last couple of years. He still has those moments, but his moments are getting fewer and further between. The offense seems to have changed also. Instead of going for a kill, it seems it has become more about safety and control. Everyone is blaming the line, but Brees has become immobile and hasn’t been working down the route tree routinely trying to extend defenses and keep them off balance. Now it’s about short passing and high percentage. If they can do that and win, they do, but when teams roll things up and challenge the offense it cannot respond.

Fading?? He had 23 TD's and 1 INT after he came back from injury and that's fading??

Think someone posted our record against a Zimmer coached defense and we were 1-3, maybe they just know how to confuse/play us?? Just like how we couldn't beat the Ravens until last year, their defense always had us confused until last year when we just decided to just run against them.

I do agree with a lot of things you said though. The kill shot isn't there anymore. Get a turnover just inside midfield we use to take shots, don't do that anymore. The dinking and dunking is getting old. I also think Brees lacks trust with guys outside of Thomas and Cook. Number of things.

I mean I'm kinda ready but if we do move on I want it to be Hill. If Brees does come back then Hill still needs to QB more. Give him a couple of series a game. It'll benefit both of them.

 

[Super44]

Let me say like this. And it is not an easy answer.

i love Drew to no end. He is like that first brand new car you bought. But after many years, you say; “I am tired of paying the price”. Paying the price in Drew’s case, is salary! At some point, you determine, just as like that brand new car, the repair costs begin to outweigh the value. In the case with Drew, the Saints will need to make a difficult decision on whether they sacrifice one or more of their younger talents, because they will not be able to afford to pay for Drew, along with one or two of their younger talented players. I do not know the answer. It is a very difficult decision the Saints will need to make. Maybe this year? I really hate that, but it is coming.

 

[ArchiesGhost]

It is pretty simple to me.

I think it would be a huge mistake to let Teddy B. leave New Orleans.

If the Saints can find a way to keep TB and Drew plays another year, I would be thrilled. Drew gets one more shot and the Saints future at QB is in very good hands.

If the choice is one more year of DB but TB leaves, I want Drew to retire for the good of team's future.

 

[fishing4food]

He threw a pass in the Pro Bowl that was about 30 yards so we know he still has the arm strength.

 

[BigSlick]

I'd rather see guys go out a year too early than a year too late -- leaving on a high note and all that. It seems like the Robert Smiths (the Vikings, not The Cure) and Ray Lewises and Tito Trinidads will always be in glorious top form, whereas the Chael Sonnons and Brett Favres who hang on for a little too long leave us with indelible images from their decline and decrepitude: the throw they can't make, the punch they're unable to slip.

 

[blackadder]

I think we move on from Brees because I think Drew moves on, meaning he retires. I’m not saying that’s good and I love Drew and we will miss him. But just from various clues, I don’t think Brees comes back but decides to retire. Brees hasn’t talked about how he really wants to come back and is all in on a new contract. He says he will take a month to decide and that he even says he may or may not come back. He has said that he will either be a Saint or retire, so that gives up any re-signing leverage he might have. Russell Wilson giving up the starting spot in the Pro Bowl to Brees with Wilson thinking this might be Brees’s last football game. Did Brees say something to him? Brees has been on national TV a lot recently – Undercover Boss and Brain Games – which is giving networks, Drew, and the U.S. a look at how he handles and does on national TV. In Brain Games, they asked him about how he would like to have certain abilities and he didn’t say he needed them for being a QB but to stand up to his children. He has plenty of non-football businesses that probably need his attention, Jimmy Johns and Untuckit, to name a few. Then along with his age, the $21 million dead money we owe him along with the money demands of a new contract, with Taysom waiting in the wings needing to play and with the Saints probably offering him less playing time next season and then less money because of that, I just think Drew is planning on retiring. I hope I’m wrong, but for me, the clues seem to be moving in that direction.

I don’t know the man personally, I just know what I can surmise watching years of behavior, what he says, what he does...

I am sure he is super competitive and hates to have to get old and slow down. I’m guessing he wants to play as first impulse but like anyone else who’s reached a certain age you realize there is more to it than what you want.

Apart from the reality of family the other reality is also that while Drew remains super elite in many facets that would work with a ball control offense, in others he is not the same. I’ve seen enough the last couple of years to believe the long ball isn’t coming back.

And then there is the question of wearing down over a 16 game season plus playoffs.

Look at Brady. His decline is evident and neither he nor Brees are likely to be better next year than they were this year.

Can they both still play? Yes.

But do you want to keep pushing it and go out with a sub standard or frustrating season?

It’s up to them but at this point at least for Drew I feel like the kind of team we need to be building for the future will get delayed because when Drew is in there Payton’s whole game plan most of the time is on the shoulders of the QB, and this version of Drew is not going to win a Super Bowl on his own.

I don’t know what Drew’s decision will be but sad as it is I am ready to deal with the inevitable and lean into the future. I do think the Championship window is closed now for this particular team. Drew can still win a lot of games in the NFL I think with a team built like the 49ers or Titans but let’s face it neither Payton nor Drew want to play that kind of football.

If we are going to truly evolve as a team and organization then I think that is only going to happen once Drew has hung up the cleats.

Looking back I will always be saddened by the fact that when Drew was at his best and relentlessly shredding the NFL for several consecutive years we at the same time fielded the worst defenses in the history of the game. There should be at least 2 more Lombardis for Drew.

Looking back on it all, after 2009, if I had to pick a game that summed up Drew’s lot one would be vs the Patriots in Foxboro in like 2013. Close game, Drew played well, brought the team to a late lead with a clutch TD, but team couldn’t run the ball and manage the clock late in game and gave the ball back to Brady with time on the clock. Brady moves the Pats down the field to scoring position. With enough time for one play, Pats score and win, defense doesn’t hold. But on the scoring play there is also a blatant uncalled hold by Pats OL against on the Saints DL.

Drew did his part to beat Brady on the road and the team couldn't close and the refs made sure of that. That game was the past 6 years in a microcosm.

 

[fdl16]

I'm not ready to move on, but I AM tired of having to keep worrying about how much time Drew has left with us. It's kind of exhausting, and I think I'm at the point where I'm fine with whatever decision he decides to make.

This is me. Exactly.

 

[KingBarkus]

I'm not ready to move on, but I AM tired of having to keep worrying about how much time Drew has left with us. It's kind of exhausting, and I think I'm at the point where I'm fine with whatever decision he decides to make.

Not me. I'm an old Saints fan and I know how bad it can be. Some of you youngsters have no idea. I'm holding on to Brees for dear life. It will be one of the worst days of my life if he decides to retire.

 

[saintsgotaring]

I roll with the New Orleans Saints, not the New Orleans Brees, Payton, or Loomis.

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[texasjefe]

Drew is having a fierce debate within himself right now.

Does not need money, suffered with the injury last year, and is a Day 1 HoF with a Super Bowl ring and has set elite records, regardless of how long they last.

If he retires, he has all the time to be with his family and young kids, and his brand and businesses. He will help the community in so many ways.

I'm ready for him to retire, and I think he is too. Does he come back for a farewell tour season? He might and he deserves it if he wants it, but I'm ready to move on.

Our salary cap is strained, and frankly, it's a young man's game. There is only 1 Belichik-Brady, and Payton-Brees are not close to it. Payton's offense only works against a good defense when there is a consistent deep ball threat. 4 straight flat playoff games by the offense and 3 of those were home games. It's time.