Agree. However, he could throw a 50 to 55-yard strike on a quick delivery low flight to perfection. Like another poster astutely pointed out the insane bomb to Cooks, Brees would release his long passes early making them more disruptive to DBs. I rewatched 10 games this year and only saw one of those 50 yards strikes. The other long passes floated and wobbled at the end.
Let's not fool ourselves. When Brees had that 50-yard quick strike bomb to Meach and Devery, that put terror in defenses and D-coordinators. Brees took the soul out of defenses with those strikes because SP often had a decent to solid running attack and always a superb possession control receiver and a great disruptive passing games to backs - think Bush and PT. For defenses, that was literally "pick your poison death." We can still win a SB or 2 with Brees. That's all we can ever want, but to ignore the terror of a younger Brees with a quick strike, take the top off a defense, passing game, our offense was insanely great.