Can anyone guess ways to continue to be successful with Brees?

I believe one more year of Drew Brees would be similar to Payton Manning's last year in Denver. Albeit, Drew would put up much better numbers than Payton did. A healthy Drew Brees can still get you 4,000 plus yards, 28 tds, and 6 picks. That would get us to the playoffs. I actually liked our gameplan against the Bucs. The turning point was the Cook fumble. Brees just can't win games by himself anymore. He needs a strong supporting cast. If our defense stays strong it's not out of the question that Brees could get us to another Superbowl. Heck, if it's all about arm strength, I've seen several qb's with cannons for arms screw up in the big game. Defense still wins superbowls.
People do seem to forget, right before Cook's fumble we were about to go up by 2 TD's. Do u think if we beat Tampa by 2 scores and find ourselves in the NFC Championship that people would be complaining this much about Drew's arm strength and pleading for him to give it up?