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

Bill said
We certainly weren't completely shut down because the bombs were rare.
I think our record bears that out. And regarding the postseason woes the last few years, there were a lot of other breakdowns leading to the losses that had nothing to do with Drew's lack of arm strength. Football is still a team game that requires everyone to execute their assignments properly in order to be successful.

I personally never viewed the Saints offense as being 'handcuffed' due to Drew. But obviously many fans did.
I can only imagine how many other teams wished to have the level of success we had with Brees the last 5 years or so. :scratch:

I think the general narrative that it was more consequential in the playoffs when playing against tougher defenses is correct. We had such little room for error in the playoffs with the dink and dunk stuff, with it we lacked the ability to keep the defenses honest and had little to no ability to "get it all back" in one pass play. It was an aspect missing from our offense and I do think it was a problem.