Oh I think since the Dome patrol in the 80's early 90's we always had pretty bad defenses. I think your thinking of
Aaron Brooks who put points on the board but was religious about throwing interceptions in the red zone. We used to call the field Thomas covered the sweet spot or 7pts, lol, omg he got bad. I still dont think there has been a worst defence than NO since 2006-20015. I might run the numbers some day, but pretty amazing what Brees has done with such a handycap. Im fairly confident in saying Saints probably cost Brees one more ring in his career, but also made alot of his stats because he was always forced to perform at a high level to win games with 30-35 min pionts. Its why we lose road games on turf alot because offense can only put up the NFL norm 24pts but the defense is even worse or the same which is pretty bad. People keep saying NO offense is a bad road team, not exactly true. They can put up 24pts. That should be enouph, but the defense falls apart. We have lost every playoff because the defence folded.