Yeah Brees was bad, and looked just uncharacteristically off on a lot of even shorter throws, his trademark accuracy just isn't there so far.
Its far from just him though, the guard play has been atrocious to start the year. I'll never understand all the money thrown at LG Peat this past offseason, he's so bad and can't stay healthy either. Emmanuel Sanders has also reportedly struggled picking up the playbook, he said he's never been on a team with this much nuance at WR before. When you're also without Michael Thomas, that's a problem.
D, and the secondary in particular, was inexplicably bad. The secondary was supposed to be the strength of the D, but it was anything but yesterday. The Saints seem to have re-acquired the old Saints version of Malcolm Jenkins, instead of the Eagles version they thought they were getting. Lattimore only ever balls out against top WRs too, he gets lazy and unfocused when its not a big name, like yesterday. They really need Davenport back at DE too, just zero pressure from the DL all night.
When all that is going on, and you also led the league in penalty yardage in both week 1 and week 2 (100 & 129), and you've got a serious problem. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that film room today..
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