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lol as opposed to who? cnn? fox?New York Post is not a credible source IMO
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lol as opposed to who? cnn? fox?New York Post is not a credible source IMO
Here is what I have read about the issue:Brady wanted to come here and he was going to be signed but then Drew unretired. Brady is a butthead but he truly respects Drew. That dig was not at us or him.
It's not out of hand in big picture. The latter few seasons when we finally had a defense that was not horrendous Drew clearly physically degraded. He either wore down late in the year or as in last season we just gave up trying to stretch the field and completely sold out the offense to what Brees could still do. Drew Brees of 2018 was no where near Brees of 2011.I think there are two aspects to the article.
1. The Saints intended to sign TB12, but afforded Drew the luxury of deciding whether to play on or not.
2. Another team - likely the 49ers or the Bears - opted to stick with their incumbent for another season.
It is team #2 that Brady was referring to. Brady plainly isn't disrespecting Drew. And in any case, he's right. What a daft move to stick with Jimmy G or Trubisky/Foles in preference to the GOAT. The Super Bowl win puts that beyond any doubt.
The Brady to New Orleans rumour has been doing the rounds since well before the Bucs won the Super Bowl. It has been repeated by some fairly credible sources. My impression is that it is accurate, and I tend to agree that the 2020 season is a case of what might have been for the Saints.
This myopic view of the Saints and Drew is getting out of hand. Drew has had the best team in the NFL at his disposal since 2017 and we didn't even make one Super Bowl in that entire period. Of course, he is not exclusively to blame for that, but he saved some of his worst games in the black and gold for the playoffs.
and Florida has no income taxI find that pretty hard to believe. The biggest reason he chose the Bucs they were closer to his family. Another slow offseason news day I guess.
Nobody should be holding ill will towards Brees for coming back. If there is one person to rain on is that Loomis is supposed to make the tough decision on when to move on from Brees and he didn't. You can't expect an Alpha like Brees to know when to hang it up.
Letting Brees come back was a Loomis decision. I don't necessarily want my GM to be a nice or emotional guy. I just want him to be business. I trust him to make a business decision for what's best for the team without emotional connect. But it's Drew Brees. You really can't say no, but Loomis should of said no. Brees could of gotten seriously injured last year.
The only thing that I'm really mad about it all is that Brees contract extension really put a hurt on us.
I don't know , Brady seems to have a 4 leaf clover stuck to a horse shoe that is shoved all the way up his colon. He is a great player, no question about that, but the man has had incredible luck through out his career to get a lot of Superbowls.well with it being the Saints and with exception of 2009, this team seems to always have the worst luck. Its as if there is a mirror breaking contest every year.
With that in mind Brady wouldn't have won here. It is just the way it is.
It's not out of hand in big picture. The latter few seasons when we finally had a defense that was not horrendous Drew clearly physically degraded. He either wore down late in the year or as in last season we just gave up trying to stretch the field and completely sold out the offense to what Brees could still do. Drew Brees of 2018 was no where near Brees of 2011.
But we knew that. We knew it would have to be a team effort where defense, running game and coaching had to pick up the slack where Brees degraded. They weren't enough.
I will throw some coaching fails in there too at pivotal moments since 2017 and most certainly across the Brees era. The Minneapolis miracle was in large part enabled by a coaching call. Not benching Jared Cook would be another more recent.
But throughout his prime when he could make all the throws Brees carried a putrid, all time worst defense for numerous seasons. And until they moved on from McMahon Special Teams were also putrid. Added nothing. No big plays, no spark, no lift in starting field position, kicker carousel. All that was on coaching and GM for years of carrying cronies on the staff or making terrible personnel decisions.
Once they got heads out of rear father time caught up with Brees. In that regard you have to tip your hat to Brady because he has held age at bay remarkably well.
Jeff Darlington is really tight with Brady's camp. He has nailed everything wrt Brady.
If he's saying something about Brady, you can take it to the bank.
Every head coach in the NFL has made bad decisions. You are correct with the bad defenses that the offense had to carry.It's not out of hand in big picture. The latter few seasons when we finally had a defense that was not horrendous Drew clearly physically degraded. He either wore down late in the year or as in last season we just gave up trying to stretch the field and completely sold out the offense to what Brees could still do. Drew Brees of 2018 was no where near Brees of 2011.
But we knew that. We knew it would have to be a team effort where defense, running game and coaching had to pick up the slack where Brees degraded. They weren't enough.
I will throw some coaching fails in there too at pivotal moments since 2017 and most certainly across the Brees era. The Minneapolis miracle was in large part enabled by a coaching call. Not benching Jared Cook would be another more recent.
But throughout his prime when he could make all the throws Brees carried a putrid, all time worst defense for numerous seasons. And until they moved on from McMahon Special Teams were also putrid. Added nothing. No big plays, no spark, no lift in starting field position, kicker carousel. All that was on coaching and GM for years of carrying cronies on the staff or making terrible personnel decisions.
Once they got heads out of rear father time caught up with Brees. In that regard you have to tip your hat to Brady because he has held age at bay remarkably well.
And that's okay. We would of ended up drafting a QB this year.Brees was more than 6 points per game better than Bridgewater in 2019 and Hill in 2020. What should be alarming to us all is that the Saints had quite literally no real replacement option for a QB who was clearly at the end of his career.