Give Drew credit for admitting the deep throws have been missing.

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I am so over this false narrative that I've seen repeated multiple times on this forum.....

As if winning 11 to 13 regular season games never happened against eventual playoff teams.

But OH OH OH, sorry Saints, the playoffs are here, now you'll completely forget how to move the ball. Because long pass reasons.

In 2017 and 2018, Brees had playoff wins ripped from him due to the untimely incompetence of others. 2019? I would say that game had more to do with Zimmer's pass rush scheme as opposed to "because long pass reasons". And it STILL went into Overtime. And in 2020......they had a 7 point lead in the 3rd quarter over a team they'd already defeated TWICE, which likely was about to go to 14 until.....once again....untimely incompetence courtesy of a fumble. So let's not pretend some switch magically got flipped every year in the playoffs and the Saints were automatically "figured out" come playoff time. We should have been good enough to win a title with Brees as recent as his final season, which obviously was his most injury-filled.

Last year he shouldn't have been on the field at all in the playoffs, due to injuries he really wasn't capable of performing. I put that more on SP than Brees.

And of course we were cheated in 2018....but if you don't think that defenses in the playoffs knew Brees couldn't threaten them deep than you really weren't paying attention. Brees was so good at the intermediate and short timing routes that it worked well in the regular season. Not so much in the playoffs...

Brees had playoff wins "ripped" from him? WTH? The Saints had playoff losses due to limitations of the offense and many other factors....