FA Guard Dillon Radunz visited the Saints [Saints sign Dillon Radunz to 1 year deal]

I remember first watching the Payton-Marrone-Brees blocking scheme. The tackles were pushing the defensive ends way out wide, which worried me because wide is also where the DEs want to go, but the key to it working involved the tackles staying within themselves and not letting pass rushers win on their second move. The interior linemen just had to not get beat so Brees could step into space and make the throw. He was so good at finding the sight lines and making things happen, instead of any of the other less-preferred outcomes like relying on extremely deep drops or a high volume of rollouts, or having lots of passes knocked down at the line.

Add to that, it also worked very well because Bree's typically only needed 2 seconds to throw. He diagnosed the defensive play pre-snap so well that he very, very rarely every needed to go to his 3rd progression. To top that off, he went through progressions extremely fast. So even if he needed to go to this 3rd, we're talking maybe 2.5 seconds. Him needing to hold onto the ball for 3.2 seconds or more was rare and mostly ever occurred if were baiting off the safety for a deep throw.