re: Bill Simmons : Is Drew Brees Still Good?

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He's not a top 5 guy anymore. Top 10 yes but not top 5. In no order just off the top of my head: Brady, Manning, Luck, Rivers (might be most underrated in the league) Wilson, Rodgers, Big Ben are all better than him.

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Talk about overreaction much? Just like most of the Brady talk last year, Brees is having a slump this year. Brady bounced back after getting a line and healthy weapons, Brees can bounce back as well. Maybe this year, maybe not.

Brees has one bad season in which he's still putting up a passer rating of 95.1 and Ben has the best season of his career at 107.3 and Big Ben is better than Brees, sure...this year.

Rivers was off to a hot start, but has since cooled down the last 3 weeks 5 TDs, 6INTs.

Wilson is not better than Brees either.

You guys are just something else, he's still top 5. The line is just playing straight horrible.

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Exactly. The top 4 has been Manning, Brady, Brees, and Rodgers for the last 5 years. I guess you can now add Luck to that list as well. Big Ben and Rivers are even more streaky than Brees. Rivers had a couple bad years in a row. Big Ben is playing better than Brees right now...but it won't stay that way.

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Ben has shown throughout his career that he'll blow up on you occasionally. He's a 6-10 QB and has always been that way. One solid year doesn't change that, but if he continues for 2-3 more years, we can consider it.

All because a player has one good outlier year from their norm doesn't make them a top 5 QB. I would put Rivers in the borderline-elite category still and I'd put him as better than Ben. He's a proven vet that put up 3-4 years of VERY solid, top 5 QB play, a couple years of slump when they were retooling, and now...back to where he was before.

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Rivers (might be most underrated in the league) Wilson

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Stop

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He's turned into a petulant child who throws fits and never stops whining when things don't go his way.

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Plus has the voice of a weasel.