Henry Ruggs

Enough with the Brees can't throw it deep crap he threw it just as far as he ever threw it multiple times this season.

The problem is quite simple, we had three players that are fast. One is old but still pretty fast, another is young and pretty fast and then we have a guy that can flat out fly in Harris. In our last 8 games Ginn had 11 catches and 4 drops. No team in their right mind are going to let him get deep because they know he wont hurt them anywhere else and Ginn just doesn't have that kind of speed where he can run by guys with ease anymore. Harris had no intermediate catches all season. He caught a few screens along the line of scrimmage and went deep a few times. Teams know when he is in the game then he is trying to take the top off the defense. He's fast but until he proves otherwise, he's a gimmick receiver. TQS can run but he doesn't have elite speed and doesn't run elite routes. Corners can hang with him on the intermediate stuff and he doesn't have the elite speed to make a corner pay for taking one bad step. Kamara was supposed to be the guy that fixes teams from sitting back by making the first guy miss in the short game, he rarely did that this season.

I know, Brees under threw Ginn several times. That's because it takes Ginn longer to beat his guy deep which means Brees has to hold the ball longer which forces him to have to make a longer throw than all but a few guys in the league are capable of making. Remember when Brees used to hit the top of a 7 step drop and let it rip deep? I saw that one time all season, it was against the Vikings in the playoffs and ended up going into double coverage. A guy doesn't play almost 20 years and suddenly no longer throw the deep ball at the top of his drop for no reason, guys aren't getting open. Guys aren't getting open because our best deep ball receiver is a 34 year old guy with a bad case of the drops.

When we had Cooks it wasn't an issue. Brees knew when Cooks was even with anyone in the league he was running by them. Corners knew that if they gave Cooks a cushion he was going to break the route off and beat them for a 20 yards so double moves actually worked. We don't have that guy. We dont have anyone remotely close to a deep threat. We don't have a Devery Henderson, we don't have a Cooks, we don't have a young Ginn, we don't have a legit guy that can stretch the field. We don't even have a legit #2 WR that can be consistent.