We beat two of the darkhorses

The teams that beat us got to Brees and threw deep. It's that simple. On defense, either they sacked Brees or pressured him into avoiding the sack and throwing an INT. On offense, they threw deep on David. The games we've won we protected Brees, and in many of those games the teams didn't blitz. The philosophy "Don't blitz Peyton or Brady" is the opposite with Drew. Manning and Brady will beat the blitz most times, but Drew seems to fail against the blitz more often than not. I don't know if it's just poor blocking or poor decision-making, but the only time I see him beat a blitz is if the blitzer is late.