re: Saints wouldn’t have beat Eagles and Brees would have died

The problem with that is that Brees has maybe 2 more years of elite play, barring injury, left IMO. So without DB were a 5-7 win team if we're lucky. Unless we're fortunate enough to get a good FA QB like Cousins, problem with that is that DB is likely to resign for 2-3 years at 16-20 mil per. If they take that route then we won't be signing a big time FA QB until Brees retires. So that handcuffs the team and really makes it so that we have to hit on every single draft choice and as we've seen before that is very hard to do consistently.