the offense is set up for success with Jameis Winston.
Well, they did try to get the Charles Watson
Jameis Winston was their safety
quarterback after they didn't get Watson. They go straight
for Jameis Winston, but he's been there for a while. He was
the backup to Drew Brees in 2020. The starter last year
tore his ACL
week 8 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a game that Trevor
Simeon came in and one against Tom Brady and company. That
one's got a stick.
In Brady's craw, he lost a brave
afraid of you should be ashamed. You lost Trevor
Simeon. What's wrong with you? Tom? Are you getting old? But
Winston back. And now he's got two more years
with the Saints and
Hey, look,
I think that Winston has a lot of work to do to run
the offense. The right way. We assume it's going to be
the same offense. There's no reason to believe it won't be with
Pete. Carmichael still there and most of the coaching staff
still there. But
you know, Mi Winston brings a deep ball to that offense, that
Drew Brees didn't have late in his career as if he ever did.
But mid
to short range. That's where Winston has to improve his
accuracy. And he acknowledged that recently, he needs to work
on his accuracy. Mid-range.
We, I think have a greater appreciation now of What Drew
Brees did in that offense, the way he was able to orchestrated
in short to medium-range, especially without the Deep
threat to push, safeties away from the line of scrimmage
Breeze was a master, Winston is still working
on his his undergraduate degree in mastering that kind of
an offense. Sure he is but I think one thing that we may be
discounted from what that offense was or wasn't last
year. Was it Michael Thomas wasn't there. And so when you
have somebody and Thomas
who runs those intermediate, Out so well, I mean, how many
times do we see Drew Brees? Hit Michael, Thomas on the slant.
I think that that's really gonna help Jameis Winston,
you know, and so, depending on how many reps he can get with
somebody like that, and the offseason program in training
camp, those kinds of things are going to help him and you also
acknowledge if he's got to use, Alvin Kamara in the underneath
routes more
as well. So then, as Island last week, was talking about
how he's got faith in Jameis Winston because of that. 2:46.
Touchdown to interception ratio now and that's something that
obviously Jameis Winston had to improve that, you know, you
can't have
30 interceptions and then still expect to be
a starting quarterback in the National Football League,
especially because guys are just taking care of
the football so much better than they may have in the past. But
once it isn't even 30 yet now and it feels like he's been
around forever since he was the first pick in that 2015 draft.
He's going into year eight.
He is set up pretty well for I'm success now and I guess
we'll see if he'll be able to do it, but it is going to
depend on whether or not he can really truly adapt to what this
offense is and to what P Carmichael is
going to be putting into his ear every single play. And
there is a caveat as it relates to Jameis Winston. Not that he
has to worry about Blake Bortles. He was released today
at his request. I have a feeling the saints were
surprised to learn, he
was still on the roster. So, yes, they let him go
the funny, but I do think there is There is something to this
possibility that the Saints decision to pick up a second
first-round pick this year than I have. Number 16, number 19,
in round one after doing the trade yesterday with the Eagles.
That that could be the first step toward potentially making
a move into the top 10 to get ahead of Carolina and Atlanta
to get a quarterback. We're going to talk about Kenny
Pickett coming up that could be who they're targeting maybe
Malik Willis,
you know, we hear in the months before the draft that there
aren't enough. Good quarterbacks and nobody really
merits being a top. Pick. That's all well and good. Until
you have teams that don't have a quarterback and her desperate
to find one
and we've made it through free agency and trade season.
So what are you going to do?
You're going to draft him in round one and you're going to
see quarterbacks get overdrafted like they often
are. So
I'm very fascinated by what the Saints may do and it could be
that Jameis Winston ends up being the guy who
is the short-term. Number one and then becomes the subject of
all sorts of. Well, how long is he going to be the quarterback?
And will he yield to the rookie who ever the rookie? Maybe if
that happens. They're paying them pretty well, not great
money. They're paying
him pretty well,
but not so much that it would be odd,
if they draft a rookie and work him into the mix sooner rather
than later, Mi all. They mean that, basically, all just means
that Jameis Winston could be this year's Jimmy Garoppolo
mean, how many headlines do we write last? And last year
basically of when his Trail ants going to take over for
Jimmy G
and never ended up happening last year,
you know, obviously Trail
Played in some games where Garoppolo was hurt. They moved
away from the kind of Trail ants package that they had
early on in the season. With Kyle Shanahan basically saying
like look, this is a little bit too weird for me as
an offensive play caller, but
I can see that happening from the Saints.
But at the same time
Jameis Winston's not a guy who doesn't have tell it. I mean
again, he was picked number one overall for a reason, you know,
he led the league in passing yards in 2019. And again, yeah,
he threw for 30. Interceptions and whatever you throw 4:30
interceptions. That's going
to negate a lot of the other things that you've done
it again. He threw for 5,000 hundred passing yards that year.
So Winston's got a lot of ability and frankly hot.
I would rather see Jameis Winston
then some rookie who's coming in this year. With the New
Orleans Saints, in part to be what you mentioned at the top
of the show that they could be a disruptor in the NFC.
I personally think that Jameis Winston gives them a much
better chance. It's to be one of those teams then maybe say,
like, kidney picket or whatever rookie quarterback. They might
be inserting in there.
And that would mean, then that the Saints have done
the various permutations on the mock drafts. And they've
decided, they'll get impact players at number 16. And
number 19, who can help them right away, as they try
to
keep up with the Buccaneers and maybe make a move toward
the top of the conference. The expectations are going to be
I don't want to say low, they're going to be vague. The going to
be Certain for the Saints this year
and they've got the potential to be good. They've got
the potential to be bad. We'll see what they do with. Dennis Allen
in and Sean Payton, obviously out.