re: Hot Take: Saints are Planning for Life After Brees

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Why do Saints fans want a QB so bad?

I don't understand it.

You have Drew frickin' Brees, who is still putting up world class numbers.

He's good for at least another two years.

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For me (I've been driving the "take the successor" bus for several years now) its:

1) Brees is 39. This is a no-brainer.
2) This team has a lot of young talent. I do not want to waste their prime years fricking around with shitty QBs. I want to roll right into the next era still dominating.
3) Understandably Brees has no interest in "teaching" the next guy, but being in the room with him will have benefits. They will learn to be a pro.

Ultimately I am against the idea of waiting until Brees is gone to try and replace him. There are too many benefits to replacing him while he is still here. And this team is stacked anyway, so we are in a good position to do so. Or we were before we traded away all our future ammo yesterday. We're pretty much now all-in on Brees and accepting several 8-8s after.