December 2011
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Further Proof that Drew Brees is awesome
Drew Brees for Team Gleason from Team Gleason on Vimeo.
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“And so the game last night was a contest between one of the teams that is...”
– From Tom Junod’s outstanding piece on the Monday night game between the Saints and Falcons. It includes many gems, among them the above and also this: “Both teams lost for vast stretches of their history, and so forged a rivalry akin to the rivalry between Southern states over SAT scores...
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Poll: Which Game Will Go Down as the Most...
Here’s the results so far in our poll for the Most Memorable Game of the Breesian Era! Didn’t get a chance to vote? No problem, the poll is still open so which game will you remember most fondly?
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A plea to the St Louis Rams
So the thing is, Rams, you all really owe us one. And not because of that little thing that happened up in the whatever its name is Dome in St Louis earlier this season—I mean, you won that game straight out, came up and beat us in the mouth and really spooked us and got our heads straight—and not because of the time you bulldozed us in 2007 when we’d just gotten our feet back...
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Drew in the Raw
This is a video on Drew on the sideline after breaking the record. It’s so obvious how much this team loves him. I think his interaction with Colston was my favorite. Can you ever remember seeing Colston talk on the sideline? I can’t for the life of me. But yeah, go watch this:
—Ryan
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“Fortunately for us, we happen to be in a position where it’s not really...”
– Grandmaster Wang over at moosedenied, who really should be our best friend, on the “controversy” over Drew’s record.
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“I’m Jimmy Graham!”
– Baylen Brees, when asked by his daddy who his favorite football player is.
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Word of Muth: Debating the Lines →
Again, it’s a terribly slow news day. Here’s a pretty solid breakdown of our offensive line by Football Outsiders, but my favorite part of the article is when he broke down that screen pass to Jimmy(!) on Monday Night. Click through to read his breakdown of the line, but here’s the play:
Before I sign out this week, I wanted to draw up a neat screen that New Orleans ran...
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Poll: Which Game Will Go Down as the Most...
It’s a slow news day over here at Saints11 HQ so we turn to you, our (rapidly) growing reader base. Which Breesian Era game will you remember most? Which will you tell in hushed tones to your grandchildren? Now’s your time to share your voice! Introducing the inaugural Saints11 Voter Poll!
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Grrrrrridiron girl.: Do it with style. →
gridirongirl:
Forgot this one:
Drew Brees:
Brees now has 12 300-yard games, most ever by an NFL player in a single season.
He’s also tied for the NFL record with only the three other players to have six consecutive 300-yard games. The others being: Steve Young 1998, Kurt Warner 2000, Rich Gannon 2002.
After this week there can be only one. Highlander style.
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From a Falcons Fan
This has been making the rounds today. We haven’t been able to confirm its authenticity—it’s supposedly a post from the Falcons Life message board—but given that Falcons message boards are covered with posts full of similar thoughts, it’s not hard to believe it’s real.
Either way, it’s right.
“We will never be what the Saints are. They are a better...
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Payton Acts to Quell Growing Unrest, Ends...
No, not that non-controversy. The other one, what? You didn’t know there was another pseudo-debate swirling around the Saints?
In what’s been a weird few day, it seems like the media (huge ambiguous noun) have really stretched to create drama, when it exists in spades around the league without any manufacturing (27 year old record falls! Orton gets a chance to thwart the team and...
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This was supposed to be a list of 11 examples of...
But it is not that.
The reason it’s not is because after a thorough two-man search of the interwebs we’ve discovered that there actually isn’t much controversy about Drew Brees setting the all-time passing record late in the Atlanta shellacking. There just aren’t eleven examples of actual criticism—there’s very little from the Falcons camp and even less from...
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The Dialogues: On Pro Bowl Shenanigans & the...
In which we discuss the Pro Bowl—the Saints have five guys, and the 49ers have eight—and also uncover the biggest question about Drew Brees still remaining.
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The common NFL fan is both ignorant and selfish. They typically watch a single team and have an inflated value of their players, but what’s more is that when it comes to voting for the Pro Bowl, they can vote an infinite...
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Symmetrical Sproles
Darren Sproles has 81 rush attempts and 81 pass receptions.
Symmetry in action.
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When I was 15, Sports Illustrated did a feature on...
It’s an incredible piece that has stuck with me over the years, and thanks to SI’s archives, I’ve been able to relive it in the wake of last night’s events.
You should read it too. Scan it for the little hints and tidbits about what was to come. Find incredible nuggets like Drew and then-girlfriend Brittany knowing that they’d go where the NFL took them—little...
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Proof of Drew Brees's superiority over the last...
Recently we published a piece called “Aaron Rodgers might be a terminator from the future, but Drew Brees is the leader of the human resistance.” In said, we argued that Drew Brees had—at that point—spent more than a month closing the previously yawning gap between his numbers and Rodgers’s.
We’re here today to tell you this: Over the course of the...
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A list of freaking awesome things the Saints have...
Have won three divisional titles in six years, after winning just two the previous thirty-nine years.
Have produced 21.5% of total franchise wins in the six years since 2006.
Before 2006, had a winning record against only one franchise: the Bucs. Now have winning records against nine franchises: the Bucs, Texans, Jaguars, Chiefs, Bills, Lions, Colts, Jets, and Seahawks.
Before 2006, as you...
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WatchStop what you’re doing and watch this instead.
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We here on staff have actually discussed the...
It is fitting given our future plans to mention this fact. Also, New Orleans is awesome.
Good tidings to all.
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Christmasly cheerful Saints/Falcons facts...
Last night brought us the gorgeous worst loss the Falcons have suffered during the Mike Smith/Matty Ice Era in Atlanta, including their fun outing against Green Bay during the playoffs last year.
Since the arrival of Sean Payton and Drew Brees the Saints are 10-2 vs Atlanta. The only actual loss was in 2008; the one in 2010 didn’t really happen because kickers don’t miss little easy...
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Kiss My Asterisk
Last week, CBS’s Mike Freeman had the audacity to make the case that the yardage record that Drew Brees now owns should be written in the record books with an asterisk. Today he wrote that the Packers are the NFL’s only great team. Meanwhile his coworker, Pete Prisco, published an article with this headline: “Brees’ record-breaking night tainted by decision to go for it late,” and still in...
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“I never want to play with another NFL quarterback.”
– Jimmy Graham on Drew Brees.
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Oh and by the way: the Saints just won the NFC...
We figured you might need a reminder.
Who dat.
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Drew to Sproles, setting the record on a TD. It's...
We’ll be talking a lot more about this in the very near future, as you might expect. For now, we celebrate with Drew—man, friend, neighbor, leader—on an accomplishment that means much more to him than he’ll admit, partially because of how much it means to us.
Drew, we love you.
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“It’s not about me. Its about this team, this city, these fans.”
– St. Breesus after he broke the NFL single-season passing record.
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