re: This is CSP biggest year as a head coach

Drew Brees was a Pro Bowler in 2004 and showed great progress from the time he entered the league until he became a Saint.

Jameis Winston is the same player that was drafted. No progress.

That's the difference, so no, you couldn't say the same thing about Brees. Brees was super efficient with two ~65% completion percentages in 2004 and 2005, and a TD/INT ratio of 51/22 over those 2 years, in stark contrast to his first 3 years in the league.

Winston, it could be argued, has decision-making ability that has gotten progressively worse. I keep seeing people laud his "maturity" and "development" when literally none of these things have played out for anyone to make a positive judgement on. Your expectations are not reality until proven such. Guy is the biggest cornball in the league and the most easily made-fun-of. No one takes him seriously.

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if Payton coaches Winston up to a very productive season it is just as likely Winston takes them to a Super Bowl as Rodgers within the next few seasons

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Winston has never even been to, or won a playoff game as a starter. Rodgers is in the playoffs as a highly seeded team every other year it seems like. I don't want to talk about "Winston" and "Super Bowl" until he sniffs the post-season. Guy is who he has been for 5 years in Tampa until proven otherwise.