re: Post your unpopular sports opinions

What I said is that Brees could not be inserted into any system and orchestrate a top 5 offense. Obviously he does under Payton and was able to in SD as well. Brees is an elite, hall of fame QB who would excel anywhere, but the only reason he is a hall of fame level QB IMO is because his talents match perfectly to Payton's system. He wasn't HOF level in SD and the Chargers already were moving to elevate Rivers even before Brees's injury. Brees is a superior QB to Ryan in every way, but if they switched teams, I don't think the Saints would diminish drastically on offense. Ryan may not have won a super bowl, but I think he is good enough to keep the Saints offense humming under Payton.

I am a die hard Saints fan and Brees is the best player in franchise history bar none, but I do believe his level of success is very much dependent on Payton's system (to be sure, this is true of many other QBs in their respective systems).