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Quick Reads: Brees was not the hero

By Bill Barnwell
Football Outsiders

Monday, October 26, 2009

Who did the most to help his team win on Sunday? The answer to this question is usually the most prominent quarterback who won a close game, especially if it was a comeback. So that's Drew Brees. But we can't say Brees -- even if he led the Saints back from a huge deficit -- because that deficit existed in no small part because of him. The best-fit narrative of the game suggested the Saints were buoyed by Brees' sneak at the end of the first half and took the game over after that. It does ...

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