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On this date, March 14th, 19 years ago the Saints made the best decision they’ve ever made
Posted on 3/14/25 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 3/14/25 at 12:40 pm
Saints sign Drew Brees
Brees announced as Saints starter
#2 in yards and touchdowns all time, Super Bowl MVP
Best thing to ever happen to the Saints
Brees announced as Saints starter
#2 in yards and touchdowns all time, Super Bowl MVP
Best thing to ever happen to the Saints
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Posted on 3/14/25 at 1:25 pm to Phillytiger9
Holy frick, that was 19 years ago!?!?
Posted on 3/14/25 at 1:42 pm to Phillytiger9
It was a great day for sure but the best decision for the Saints ever made is when John Mecom decided to sell the team.
This post was edited on 3/15/25 at 9:31 am
Posted on 3/14/25 at 2:59 pm to Phillytiger9
$10M a year, $8M signing bonus, base salary of $2M and $2M in 06 and 07
How times have changed
How times have changed
Posted on 3/14/25 at 3:17 pm to Phillytiger9
That was a great decision, but we had no other choice and neither did Drew.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 5:09 pm to Phillytiger9
Almost 5 years retired and he is probably still better than half the QBs in the league and way better than any on the Saints roster now.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 8:06 pm to Zephyrius
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Jon Meachum
John Mecom Jr.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 9:57 pm to Phillytiger9
Take a knee
Posted on 3/14/25 at 10:04 pm to Phillytiger9
RIP John Clayton
Crazy that Loomis was here for that time and here he is still GM. Currently 3rd longest GM tenure in the league, 4th longest is 8 years behind Loomis.
Crazy that Loomis was here for that time and here he is still GM. Currently 3rd longest GM tenure in the league, 4th longest is 8 years behind Loomis.
Posted on 3/15/25 at 9:48 am to Zephyrius
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It was a great day for sure but the best decision for the Saints ever made is when John Mecom decided to sell the team.
Anyone downvoting must have been a fan only during the era of the Benson ownership. If Mecom still owned the Saints 19 years ago, they never would have signed Drew or probably even hired Payton.
No coaches with a winning record, winningest coach under Mecom - Bum Phillips - 27-42-0 (.391). The second-winningest was Dick Nolan at 15-29 (.341) Nolan's final season was the year the Aints moniker was coined along with the paper bags.
Coaches with a worse record under Benson than Bum - Mike Ditka - 15-33-0 (.313)
Posted on 3/15/25 at 11:39 am to Phillytiger9
I had just eaten at that pasta place (Semolina?) At Clearview mall and my good mate who posts here texted me the news. We were so heckin pumped
Posted on 3/15/25 at 4:19 pm to Phillytiger9
I bought season tickets based on that signing.
Didn’t think it would end up with a Lombardi (obviously a boy could dream) and his career being like it was but it showed the Saints were serious and I was going to contribute to the team staying in NOLA (admittedly in a tiny way).
I wonder if 19 more years-old me would make the same decision now?
PS: The Mecom years were absolutely brutal.
Didn’t think it would end up with a Lombardi (obviously a boy could dream) and his career being like it was but it showed the Saints were serious and I was going to contribute to the team staying in NOLA (admittedly in a tiny way).
I wonder if 19 more years-old me would make the same decision now?
PS: The Mecom years were absolutely brutal.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 8:31 am to Phillytiger9
yep, and no one expected that 15 years later he would become a poster boy for the blm movement…
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:01 am to Dissident Aggressor
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yep, and no one expected that 15 years later he would become a poster boy for the blm movement…
Sorry but anyone still thinking about how he supported his teammates and framing it as a pejorative is just simply a soft man. It gets boring hearing all of the Drew Brees haters constantly whining about him taking a knee. I didn't even know anyone still cared about that. The guy was an absolute Legend as a football player regardless of any of your political sensitivities
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:30 am to mdomingue
Mecom would've sold the team regardless. Benson and his group kept them in New Orleans. Remember, Jacksonville wanted them real bad.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:39 pm to Tigertuxedo
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supported his teammates
he supported a lie
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all of the Drew Brees haters
pointing out facts is not a hater
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an absolute Legend as a football player
i agree
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any of your political sensitivities
its has nothing to do with politics
its about what is right and what is wrong
he has enough money that his great grandchildren will be 1%ers
he also had a chance to tell the mfl to kiss his arse and he folded like a lawn chair…
Posted on 3/16/25 at 1:34 pm to ChestRockwell
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Mecom would've sold the team regardless.
Still, the best thing that ever happened to the Saints. Maybe Benson deciding to put together that group was the best decision ever made regarding the Saints.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 1:36 pm to Dissident Aggressor
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yep, and no one expected that 15 years later he would become a poster boy for the blm movement…
No one thinks that now except for pretentious sky screamers.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:27 pm to geauxpurple
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That was a great decision,
but we had no other choice
and neither did Drew.
Truth
You and anybody else on this thread would have made that decision
Posted on 3/16/25 at 9:42 pm to Dissident Aggressor
This is weird
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