Is Brees’ arm the problem?

He made some pretty accurate throws downfield today. Receivers kept dropping them

How many plays killed drives that had a defender with his back to Brees, the entire time the receiver ran his route, and made contact without ever looking at the qb? I counted at least 2.

His upside is absolutely diminishing because of his arm strength. It's not so much about how far he can throw down the field, so much as how fast he can get the ball to receivers. That play where Quan had a ball knocked out of his hands last week, it was an accurate pass ~25 yards down field, but it was slow to get to him.

But he's still an elite QB that can make most any pass he needs to make to win games. He can still drop a ball over the shoulder of a WR running a go route 45 yards down field. He was fine tonight, his playmakers let him down. I need to watch the 2pt conversion again, but it sounded like Kamara stopped running a route. His INT was in no way his fault (great pass that only Arnold could catch, excpet that Arnold derped it hard enough for a defender to pick it off).

Even including Thomas, it's looking like this team has a bottom ~7 WR/TE corps. I think Meredith will come back and be really good for us next season. Quan will have a year of experience. We need a TE pretty badly, though, and I'd still invest FA money in another WR.

We need Dez to come back and might even need to spend our lone 2nd round pick on a TE or WR.

The only other areas of concern on the team are depth at LB because we will likely lose Robertson and Teo. The rest of our team will remain intact though. WR/TE needs to be added through the draft

Dallas set a blueprint of mugging WRs.

The offensive line is banged up.

And now the WRs have the dropsies.

It does not help that every big offensive play got flagged against the Panthers.

Key offensive players were repeatedly hit late and out of bounds.

Forcing the ball downfield under these conditions are a recipe for disaster.

You can not let the game officials frustrate the QB into making poor decisions.

You take what the opponents defense and refs are allowing.

Good defense and the running game is the answer.

Brees has his ego in his back pocket and just wants to win.

No need being a gunslinger until absolutely necessary.

The Dome home crowd should help with the very tight WR muggings.

A healthier pass protecting OL should restore some of the passing firepower.

To me it’s not about the accuracy. His ball is a little slow. It’s the difference between receivers being able to catch the ball uncontested/in more space, vs being able to catch it with a half second or a second less before they receive contact from a defender. I think that is making all the difference in the world with their drops. Not that any of that is Drew’s fault, they should still catch it. Also if they got more separation, it wouldn’t be an issue. Basically the lack of velocity is making it difficult for drew to compensate for his receivers weaknesses

Good grief

Yes. Drew Brees's arm is the whole issue.


Oh, and the opposing defense. Almost forgot that.


So I take back my agreement with your OP. It's the defense. HIS ARM IS NEAR PERFECTION. Final answer. I love Brees's arm and that brown thing on his face is cool too.

It's not his are hes hesitates because he dosent trust any reciever outside MT13
Lewis,smith are trash
Kirkwood, Arnold is a average
Watson is inconsistent

He holds the ball trying to get the ball to MT13 the check down to Kamara that's not super hard to defend.

We really gonna do this shite again? Every time our offense struggles the last few years, it was because Brees had some mysterious injury that was never really there.

His arm is fine. Take your own advice. Overreaction. It’s by design. We have no one to get deep

I swear the shite people blame the offense on when it’s bad is so ridiculous.