re: 24 wins & 23 losses after Drew signs his $100 million deal.

I have a few issues with Brees' contract. And the first issue is exactly how it's going to affect this ballclub in the next two years. His cap hit is $26.4 mil next year ($14.8mil dead money) and $27.4 mil in 2016 ($7.4 mil dead money). Contracts like those mean that you can't afford to make ANY mistakes with all your other players. And in order to make things work, Loomis has had to kick the can on down the road at times. Look at Jahri Evans' contract. Cap hit of around $11 mil the next three years. Ben Grubbs has a cap hit of around $10 mil the next two years. They inexplicably gave Junior Galette the contract he now has. He's a cap hit of almost $16 mil next year. Jairus Byrd will cost the Saints an average of $10 mil over the next five seasons. NOT TO MENTION Jimmy Graham. The Brees contract meant we HAD to be right with all those other contracts, PLUS catch lightning in a bottle with some cheap players and UDFA's in order to be successful.

And that's just not working out. None of the gambling is paying off right now.

The big contracts being sucked up by a select few on this roster meant that we could not keep players like Darren Sproles, who has, in turn, made the Saints look like the chumps they are this season.