Drew Brees talked on Wednesday about what he saw when reviewing the game tape of his 24-for-52, 339 yard, three touchdown, two interception performance in the New Orleans Saints' Week 1 loss to the Washington Redskins.

Brees had a 70.9 passer rating, his lowest rating since October 30th of last season against the Rams. Brees had only five games in 2011 with a passer rating under 100.0.

“A lot of little mistakes," said Brees. "A lot of things that killed drives for us offensively, whether it was a penalty or a mental error or you just missed an opportunity. We just had a lot of those and they came at some pretty inopportune times. You walk away from it just saying it never really felt like we were ever in a rhythm. That could be attributed to a lot of those things I’m talking about. Really, you’re able to establish a rhythm once you get a drive going and it just never felt like we really got off the ground ever, or rarely. Before we knew it, we were down by enough there in the second half that it became a little bit of a two-minute fest where you’re trying to play catch up. It’s hard to believe that we even had a chance in the end because if you look at just the way we played, we didn’t deserve to have a chance. (We were) just inefficient, all the way around, it felt like it was inefficient. It certainly didn’t feel like what we’re used to around here.”