So now we gotta play Teddy AND TB multiple times a year going forward...
Lotta y'all don't wanna admit it, but the majority of the reason we've enjoyed this run of 13-3 at the top of the division the past couple of years... is because our divisional rivals have been complete dumpster fires during that time span. While it hasn't been trash ass NFC East status we have MAJORLY benefitted from the overall sad state of the rest of the NFC South... a status quo that we cannot rely on being that way for much longer. All these teams keep slowly making good signings and hires and keep accruing top draft picks... while we are basically praying to just be 80-90% as good as the previous year's team as Brees gradually falls off, while either trading away or whiffing our continual late 1sts from these 13-3 "all-in" seasons that don't end up resulting in anything.
Our only hope at this point is A. Another miracle 2017 draft situation this year that results in multiple ROY/franchise cornerstone caliber players (and real talk those 2 ROYs on the roster have not improved but actually gotten worse each year since in all honesty
). Which ain't likely since I can't name a rookie we've drafted since who's done anything except Davenport... who's mainly famous for just being perpetually injured when we needed him most
Or B. The inevitable looooong Rona-induced layoff/delay of play (And it is most definitely happening y'all, just wait till April if you don't think it's bad right now
) gives Brees enough recuperation time to pull off one more HoF season that doesn't completely fall off come playoff time. Which also ain't likely considering he had a nice long mid season layoff from his hand injury last season... and still couldn't stop flabby noodle-arming it up in the playoffs, worse than he ever has before... against our most pathetic opponent in all these recent playoff collapses to boot
Not trying to be a negative nancy, but I am not impressed or reassured one bit by any development/move from this team when it comes to getting it done this upcoming season, especially in comparison to how near every other team been moving. Maybe it's just losing Teddy B getting me down, our locker room gonna sorely miss him like it missed Ingram this past season
Glad he got the bag tho... only time I'm ever wishing a Panthers player good luck. He gonna reaffirm who the best Cam in the NFC South always was