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Nate Silver: It’s Time For Drew Brees And The Saints To Break Up
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:09 am
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:09 am
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In fact, for all their irrationality in other areas, NFL teams have usually been able to anticipate these problems and have been remarkably unsentimental in parting ways with aging franchise quarterbacks in the salary-cap era. The first signs were in 1993, when Joe Montana was traded.7 Then came Phil Simms — who, after a somewhat miraculous comeback season in 1993, was unceremoniously released the next spring. Troy Aikman might have retired anyway because of injuries, but he was ushered out the door. The same goes for Young, who was not welcome back in San Francisco. Warren Moon was passed around like a joint at a Phish concert toward the end of his career. Kurt Warner was benched. McNabb endured a fate worse than being benched: He was dealt to Washington. Favre had a reality-TV-style mess of a divorce from the Packers. Manning was let go once the Colts knew they had an opportunity to draft Andrew Luck.
These NFL teams have generally recognized that it’s better to break up with an aging quarterback a year too early than a year too late. And almost none of those decisions look bad in retrospect.8 Brees may still have something left — quite possibly enough to lead another franchise somewhere to a deep playoff run — but it’s probably time for he and the Saints to move on from each other.
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Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:10 am to gizmoflak
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These NFL teams have generally recognized that it’s better to break up with an aging quarterback a year too early than a year too late.
Signed Super Bowl Champs New England Patriots and Tom Brady 38 years old.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:13 am to Chad504boy
Seriously.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:19 am to gizmoflak
Yup. I always prayed we'd follow the Green Bay Packers model but sadly it's way too late for that.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:21 am to gizmoflak
So all we need to do is find Aaron Rodgers, Steve Young, or Steve McNair and we'll be okay?
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:21 am to Chad504boy
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Signed Super Bowl Champs New England Patriots and Tom Brady 38 years old.
good anecdotal evidence ... the outlier
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:22 am to SirWinston
Brett Favre turned 36 Aaron Rodgers' rookie year. Drew Brees made 36 this year. Keep saying retarded fricking shite.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:23 am to gizmoflak
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good anecdotal evidence ... the outlier
That's the outlier, but getting a 2nd HoF QB isnt?
Who knows if the Colts made the right choice, but they were also gifted a lock
Favre retired and they had Aaron rodgers. They were in a similar situation to us and then made the nfccg With him.
Montana to Young....those are outliers
This post was edited on 9/24/15 at 11:27 am
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:23 am to gizmoflak
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good anecdotal evidence ... the outlier
this outlier is one of the best comparisons one can come up with.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:24 am to Chad504boy
There's always an exception to the rule
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:29 am to Chad504boy
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this outlier is one of the best comparisons one can come up with.
let's face it: Brees ain't Brady, and Payton ain't Belichick
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:30 am to gizmoflak
Its two games
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:32 am to gizmoflak
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let's face it: Brees ain't Brady, and Payton ain't Belichick
But Grayson is Rodgers, Luck, Young, McNair, etc?
This is retarded
And just last year people were saying that Brady was done too. If anything, Brady is proof that an average at best arm can still be effective. Brees has shown he still has a good, strong deep ball
This post was edited on 9/24/15 at 11:34 am
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:34 am to gizmoflak
It's not time for Brees and the Saints to break up.
It's time for him to sign an extension and move some of his fricking money around.
It's time for him to sign an extension and move some of his fricking money around.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:35 am to gizmoflak
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let's face it:
A) We probably don't have aaron rodgers on our bench
B) Indy lucked out w/ Peyton sitting an entire year out and sucking to get that draft pick that so happened to have Andrew Luck in it.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:36 am to TigerBait1127
It's not even Brees' fault IMO. It's the lack of talent at WR and terrible, uninspired playcalling by Payton.
He's made some bad throws and poor decisions, but Brees is still clearly a top 10 QB despite the asshats around him.
He's made some bad throws and poor decisions, but Brees is still clearly a top 10 QB despite the asshats around him.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:37 am to gizmoflak
Of all the big changes we could make, getting rid of Brees would be the worst one.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:39 am to WicKed WayZ
No WRs
Terrible G play
No running game
You fix #1 or #2, amd this offense is fine. We need to go to a quick throw offense until it's fixed, but I'm not sure our receivers can pull it off
Terrible G play
No running game
You fix #1 or #2, amd this offense is fine. We need to go to a quick throw offense until it's fixed, but I'm not sure our receivers can pull it off
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:39 am to TigerBait1127
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Terrible Strief play
Posted on 9/24/15 at 11:40 am to gizmoflak
This is like when you have a coach that is pretty good but isnt winning championships and the fans are getting restless and start calling for him to be fired. But then no one actually knows who to replace him with. Which is like a huge fricking deal when you consider getting rid of someone.
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