Drew Brees..... Team Player

[PntherPryd]

 

almost enough to make you feel sorry for taint fans.....

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/05/26/drew-brees-applies-deadline-to-his-talks-with-saints-on-a-new-deal/

 

Brees said Wednesday, via theAssociated Press. “If you remember in 2011, where it began to drag into the season, three weeks in I was like, ‘I don’t want to deal with it anymore. I want to focus on football, focus on the season.’ That has always been my approach. That’ll be my approach again. There’s a deal to be done now, and if it doesn’t get done now, it’ll be a different deal to get done at the end of the year.”

That’s the closest Brees or his agent have come to pointing out the reality that, if the Saints allow Brees to play out the final year of his five-year, $100 million contract, the circumstances will change, dramatically. They’ll change thanks to the arbitration claim filed by Brees after the Saints applied the franchise tag to him in 2012, which resulted in a ruling that the next application of the tag to Brees will be the third of his career. As a result, he’ll be entitled to a 44-percent increase over his cap number from 2016.

That’s $43.2 million. For one year. For a quarterback who will be 38 in January.

[Omega Atrocity]

That franchise tag number is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. The day Drew Brees retires is going to be such a glorious day, that cap situation has the timer set.

[Jmac]

Don't eat at Jimmy Johns.....sandwiches suck.

[cbarrier90]

The thread title reflects poorly on Brees, but I don't see how any of this is Drew's fault. It's a huge indictment on New Orleans management.

Brees probably wants to finish his career in New Orleans and expected to be treated to negotiations fitting for a franchise QB that literally saved the franchise from moving. I would be frustrated if I was Brees and I kept being treated as less and less of a priority.

Saints should have gotten a sensible extension done to lower his cap number or released him. Instead, they tried to keep putting off taking care of their QB in favor of spending elsewhere to make a SB run and now they've run out of time.

[thefuzz]

7 minutes ago, cbarrier90 said:

The thread title reflects poorly on Brees, but I don't see how any of this is Drew's fault. It's a huge indictment on New Orleans management.

Brees probably wants to finish his career in New Orleans and expected to be treated to negotiations fitting for a franchise QB that literally saved the franchise from moving. I would be frustrated if I was Brees and I kept being treated as less and less of a priority.

Saints should have gotten a sensible extension done to lower his cap number or released him. Instead, they tried to keep putting off taking care of their QB in favor of spending elsewhere to make a SB run and now they've run out of time.

It's always a matter of time when you draft poorly, and overspend in free agency.

[shaqattaq]

11 minutes ago, cbarrier90 said:

The thread title reflects poorly on Brees, but I don't see how any of this is Drew's fault. It's a huge indictment on New Orleans management.

Brees probably wants to finish his career in New Orleans and expected to be treated to negotiations fitting for a franchise QB that literally saved the franchise from moving. I would be frustrated if I was Brees and I kept being treated as less and less of a priority.

Saints should have gotten a sensible extension done to lower his cap number or released him. Instead, they tried to keep putting off taking care of their QB in favor of spending elsewhere to make a SB run and now they've run out of time.

Agreed.  Brees is consistently an elite Qb, and deserves to bank everything he can. It's not his faultthat the taints FO has the fiscal responsibility of a 16 year old with daddy's platinum card. 

[Snake]

Saints should have cut Brees two years ago and rebuilt. Now they will go through that anyway and it probably will cost Payton his job. 

[PntherPryd]

3 minutes ago, cbarrier90 said:

The thread title reflects poorly on Brees, but I don't see how any of this is Drew's fault. It's a huge indictment on New Orleans management.

 

Usually in a clusterpluck like this there is more than enough blame to go around.  A ton of taint fans are getting tired of Brees and his contract demands.  Personally, I love it.  Funny how public sentiment will change over time.  At first, in 2011 all the taint fans wanted the mole to get paid.  Now that the Bree's contract has been a Damocles Sword for the taints for the last few years public sentiment is moving toward management.  Waiting for the sword to fall is entertaining to say the least.

[caatfan]

"Brees will make $20 million in 2016, but the Saints are on the hook for another $10 in previously paid bonuses, making his cap charge a league-high $30 million."

Unfortunately for the Saints, Brees thinks he can be an elite QB for years to come. 

"I feel like there's nothing I can't do now that I couldn't do 10, 15 years ago," Brees said. "As long as I'm having fun, can stay healthy, and can play at a high level, I'm going to play as long as I can."  http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2016/02/drew_brees_contract_extension_1.html

[PandaPancake]

Didn't the front office tell Brees, "Don't get short with me?"

[Davidson Deac II]

Wouldn't be surprised to see Brees in Denver after this season is over. 

[Moose Hoover]

35 minutes ago, PandaPancake said:

Didn't the front office tell Brees, "Don't get short with me?"

haha, fug drew brees.

[SCP]

33 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

Wouldn't be surprised to see Brees in Denver after this season is over. 

Hmm, interesting. Good call.

[outlaw4]

If the Saints give Brees a new deal, they're insane. At the end, father time always wins and when it does, it's a fast downward spiral. Better to let them go a year early than a year too late.