Aaron Brooks to be a FA (1 Viewer)

[Ron_Mexico]

Everyone was writing off jeff Garcia also, and he's a heck of a lot older than Brooks is.Simply way too early to be writing off Aaron Brooks IMHO.

I don't think you can campare the two.Garcia is a more intelligent decision maker.I wrote Brooks off long ago,and I haven't lost a wink of sleep yet.

The last sentence- Is it possible you said that about Garcia(not Brooks) before this past season?

Of course it's possible,but we are talking about 2 different QBs,2 different styles.I would rather compare Brooks of 2007 / 2008,which is what this dicussion is about,to the Brooks of recent history, the past 2 or 3 years.And what I see personally, is a backup QB.

Not to pester you just curious.Why do you think Garcia "got it together" and Brooks can't. Each seemed to have a gap in their career where they were but quite good before.You mentioned Garcia's intelligence earlier. Do you think that's why he was able to? Do you think Brooks isn't intelligent("football intelligence")IE Can you expound on that some?

TMan preety much summed it up :"Listen to your friend! Numbers do not always tell the story. Brooks played with no passion. He made bad decisions under pressure. He could not hang on to the ball. New Orleans had offensive fire power in the years of Brooks (Horn, Deuce, even Ricky). He just continued to make bad decisions at inopportune times that cost the team -- and with a weak defense, the team could not afford such blunders.".... and msommer:"The knock on Brooks has been two things 1) that he just doesn't seem smart enough (they had to simplify the playbook in NO more than once for him, and as late as the last offseason he had there) and 2) that he just doesn't seem to care in the game situation - joking on the sideline when he just threw a horrible INT."I concur with these thoughts on AB.

 

[saintfool]

Much of Brooks yardage was garbage time -- even if garbage time started in the second quarter due to his earlier turnovers putting NO in a big hole.

as much as saints fans would like to blame him for all the losing, shame and bad luck over the years, some of the blame has to be the placed on the defense. it has been pretty awful over the last 10-12 years. so, yes, brooks' numbers are inflated to a degree because we were playing catch up. it was catch up for defensive ineptitude as much for his inability to get it done at QB.i will say this about brooks: as time passed he seemed to regress as a QB. he wasn't always a lunkhead but, season to season, he just seemed to worsen. i would characterize his numbers as inflated, as he was a kind of system QB. it was a system which meant we didn't click until the second half of most games and often only in the 4th quarter of games.

 

[TheLastDispatch]

Would Jeff Garcia be a good fit for Oaktown?

no because garcia clearly wants to be a starter and that's not gonna happen(assuming oakland drafts rusell) also considering garcia's age he isn't a long term solution

Just to clear this up, Garcia does not want to be a starter. He's said a few times he would rather play as a back up on a winning team than as a starter on a losing team.You can count Oakland out not because Garcia wants to start, but because Garcia wants to play for a winning team.

 

[T Man]

I never thought Garcia was super - and I still don't. He is a system QB. He can do well in a West Coast offense with talent surrounding him. But he has been a Pro Bowl QB and has played at a pro bowl level. His mistake was thinking that he could do it in any system (and in a windy cold weather city despite his weak arm). He can't make a bad team better.

As for Brooks, his best season with NO was his first. He never looked that good again. He got his big contract and seemed to regress. He made poorer decisions. He failed to mature. He just never seemed to get it. Like Garcia, he can't make a bad team better; but unlike Garcia, I think he'll make a good team worse.

Brooks is far more talented then Garcia, but the overall package is not as attractive (except for his youth). In any event, I don't see either of them as a full time starter again - at least not for the long haul.