The cowboys are overrated but I’m never going to hear the end of saints fans saying “HURR DURR WE BEAT 2 GOOD TEAMS WITHOUT DREW BREES”.
I mean, for years people have been telling us the Saints aren't fit to even be in the NFL without Drew Brees, and now we're 2-0 without him. We beat Seattle in Seattle, which is damn near impossible and something Drew has never done. And beat the *supposed* best team in the NFC; even though everybody knew the Cowboys were overrated that defense alone still makes them a pretty damn good team.
Our front 7 on defense is extremely formidable, the secondary seems to be coming together, and Kamara/Thomas are good enough that Teddy B. only needs to manage the game and control the clock. If we can win even 1 of the next 4 games, we're 4-4 with Drew coming back for the second half of the season. But honestly I think we can do better than that: Tampa at home, at Jacksonville, at Chicago, Arizona at home. Objectively we should be heavy favorites in both home games and at Jacksonville.
Our division is not impressive on the whole either, 9-7 will probably win it. My major fear is that Drew comes back and is rusty and that costs us a game or two that Teddy might have been just good enough to win.
I would like to see Teddy B. throw the ball downfield more because his arm down the middle out to about 30 yards is excellent. He mainly just needs to process information faster, easier said than done but if he is smart enough to already have a strong command of an offense as complicated as the Saints, I think he can do it. He just needs more snaps before things start to slow down for him.
I still expect our season to end in disastrous and improbable fashion because we seem to have written the book on that, but oh well, that's the breaks.
