Hey y’all.
Just figured I’d ask (and I’m sure there are plenty of people who have asked this in the past): what is your honest, objective opinion of Aaron Brooks?
I genuinely felt like he was a league average starter during his era. Above average arm, decent accuracy, but not great at all under pressure or adjusting to the blitz. I feel like in today’s NFL, he’d be a competent back up/bridge quarterback.
His record by year with the Saints:
2000: 3-2
2001: 7-9
2002: 9-7
2003: 8-8
2004: 8-8
2005: 3-13
Overall W/L record: 38-47
2005 was just not a good year for anyone (truly a traumatic event for the city/state in general) so
I’m willing to give him some grace here.
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Dude was Michael Vick before Michael Vick…he loved throwing to Falcons jerseys.
He was a C+ in his prime and was helped by peak Joe Horn.
WE WANT JAKE
I remember wanting to jump into my TV and get on the field and whoop his you know what every time he threw an interception and smiled while clapping
Soon as I bought his jersey, his career went downhill. I’m sorry yall 😔
He was never boring to watch, something exciting was going to happen every time he played. Not necessarily positive, but definitely exciting!
Wasn’t around for him, but from what I can tell he was pretty mid, but is still like, the fifth best QB in franchise history?
He was the funniest quarterback we’ve ever had
Overall very average. Had some fun games (for the wrong reason), had some terrible games. Set a couple franchise records, and he’s been immortalized for winning the Saints their first playoff game. It was a short career but he had cool milestones.
Second best quarterback in team history. Won a playoff game against the Greatest Show on Turf with Willie Jackson and Robert Wilson as his best receivers, and no running game whatsoever in that game. Made some boneheaded decisions, but Saints fans shit on this man way too much
2nd best qb in franchise history, I remember when he had a national ad campaign with K-Swiss. I was so pumped every time I saw that commercial, it was like he was a family member lol
He was insane when we had Mike McCarthy to coach him
Jim Henderson referred to Brooks as Houdini for good reason.
Once McCarthy left, Haslet fucking ruined him by insisting he become a pocket passer
Even so, he still put up great (yes great) stats. But he made silly mistakes and never had the right coach to get him past the mistakes and leadership issues
Pretty average-above avarage QB who had a cannon of an arm and showed flashes of being truly great, but never sustained it from what I remember.
I’ll also never be able to fully bash Brooks considering he was the QB of the first Saints playoff win in history. I know he gets overshadowed because he was succeeded by Brees (rightfully so) but he’s an important part of Saints history. IMO 2nd best QB in Saints history behind Jameis Winst- nah I’m just kidding we know it’s Brees at #1.
Legit cannon – like the Happy Gilmore of QBs, in that he was “really something at those long throw competitions.” (I remember him winning that event like three years in a row)
Underrated. Definitely not perfect, but doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Wish he was the starter now over who we gave all the damn money to.
He’s constantly disrespected
Might be the most physically gifted QB the saints ever had. Dude could throw the ball 80 yards and could move around. Never learned how to read defenses and develop into a pocket passer. A lot of younger people have the bad habit of looking at his statistics and comparing to the stats of today’s QBs. The game was different back then, QB stats weren’t nearly as padded as they are today.
He got us our first playoff win.
That is all.
His highs were high and lows were low
Jeff Blake would have been more successful had he not been injured.
Gave us our first playoff win. Always love him for that
I liked when he wore straight up Air Force 1s to play in.
His shoe game was always on point. Wore some tough shoes on that Superdome turf
Not perfect, but highly underrated and overhated because he had the bad habit of smiling after picks, the backwards pass, and the whole “Haslett starting injured Brooks over healthy Delhomme” debacle. Easily the 2nd best Saints quarterback, IMO.
I’ve always said for every brilliant play, he had to make 2 bonehead plays.
Athletic clown.
Also. That’s my favorite uniform.
Shit QB, hope he saved his money.
He was on the brink of being a very good quarterback. I don’t know what happened. It was too stressful for him maybe. The man could play
In team history, IMO the 4th best qb all time.
I got him behind Brees, Manning & Hebert.
Stats wise he is high, but after that 3rd year it was progressively sub-par.
We couldn’t develop him. No one in the NFL really had the blueprint on how to develop a dual threat QB back then. Coaches & front office folks would resort to bad excuses to explain away their ineptitude and reluctance to modernize.
A young Joboto once fell in love and was completely heartbroken by his playoff appearance.
Had some good games. Made some exciting plays. Never seemed to have that something people need to elevate to the top tier.
Definitely was better than he got credit for but being that he was cousins with Mike Vick, who was blazing through the league at that time made it tough. Think we’ve made our pretty well with Green Bay castaways now that I realize it.
Second best QB the Saints have ever had.