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They never came here but I thought schaub would have been a good get out of Atlanta...not great but better than what we ended up with..he could've been McNair's replacement

Also wanted mccardell when he was leaving jax

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On 6/23/2018 at 4:58 AM, Kyle021 said:

He wasn’t coming here either way. We had VY

 

I hated passing on Rodgers in 05. It was clear he shoulda been the pick. 

 

Rodgers and Dinger would have been great

well for a year or two.. 

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On 6/23/2018 at 9:18 AM, heyitsmeallen said:

 

I don’t remember exactly. Is in his midday 180 interview, He said the went to sleep Friday night dead set on someone and woke up on draft day and Pac-Man was the pick. 

Antrel Rolle CB or Demarcus Ware iirc

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On 6/22/2018 at 3:21 PM, JakePA_Titan said:

Sorry but Im going to derail the thread a bit.

 

We should have got Drew Brees in 2006.

Instead Floyd got in on the Daunte Culpepper sweepstakes & I believe actually made a slightly better offer then Miami but Culpepper preferred Miami.

 

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7 hours ago, Soxcat said:

Brees had the shoulder issue which turned a bunch of teams off.  Obviously in hindsight we should have gone after him.  Few felt that way at the time.

 

Brees went to the right surgeon...

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11 hours ago, Soxcat said:

Brees had the shoulder issue which turned a bunch of teams off.  Obviously in hindsight we should have gone after him.  Few felt that way at the time.

 

That and he was not any where near the same caliber of QB before Payton. His career looks way different if he went elsewhere.

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If you'll recall,  Brees very nearly became a Miami Dolphin...but their team doctor advised them not to sign him due to the uncertainty surrounding Brees' shoulder injury.

 

I'm not criticizing the doctor...it was a significant injury and a very legitimate concern.   But consider the impact his opinion had on the past decade of American football.

 

Had Brees gone to Miami, then the Dolphins likely end up being one of the NFL's most successful teams over the past decade.  Nick Saban probably stays in the NFL for the rest of his career and never goes to Alabama.....and one of the most remarkable chapters in college football history is never written.     

 

It's just funny how things work out.

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14 hours ago, WG53 said:

That and he was not any where near the same caliber of QB before Payton. His career looks way different if he went elsewhere.

If I remember correctly Brees was putting it together the year he got hurt which was after they drafted Rivers. 

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Brees struggled for the first 3 years of his career, then they drafted Rivers and he flipped the switch in SD going 27TDs to 7 INTs and 24TDs to 11 INTs.  He would have continued that trend if they hadn't gotten rid of him.  Gates grumbled for years about them letting him go.

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On 6/29/2018 at 4:07 PM, japan said:

If I remember correctly Brees was putting it together the year he got hurt which was after they drafted Rivers. 

He was doing better. He wasn't relying on the checkdown as much as before. But he was no where near the vertical passer he became in New Orleans. 

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51 minutes ago, WG53 said:

He was doing better. He wasn't relying on the checkdown as much as before. But he was no where near the vertical passer he became in New Orleans. 

Payton is the best offensive coach in the league.  They've been the leader in yards gained at least half of the time during the past decade, and nobody can really name many receivers or RBs who they have had.   Brees became a completely different QB in NO. And he decided that the best thing to do would to become a more run-heavy team, and they did so with flying colors.  James Jones gives Rodgers all of the praise in the world, and owes much of his success to him, but he stated that he would have loved to play in NO, due to how sophisticated and effective that their play design was.

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