Drew has the same agent as Peyton Manning, who was making something like $23 million in some years of his contract. (However, Peyton’s average was lower than $23 million.)

Brady’s “hometeam” discount has allowed the Patriots to be contenders year in and year out, even making the superbowl recently and winning multiple championships. Peyton’s contract has crippled the Colts, who rarely go far in the playoffs and were ONE injury away (Peyton’s injury) from a horrible season.

No player is worth $20 million + a year. That type of pay makes your team a one man operation, and when he gets hurt, the whole team is exposed as lacking at other positions. The Colts are a prime example.

If Drew turned down a deal that lets him average $18 million a year for FIVE years, which is the rumor, then I would let him walk. He’s great, but the 49ers beat the Saints in the playoffs with a MUCH worse quarterback, but an overall better team. No one player is worth 1/6 of a team’s salary cap.

Drew Brees did not turn this team around single handed, in spite of what others may think. It takes a team of 53…not 1.

But I will yield this: DREW BREES and his agent just wounded this team’s post season chances next year. Way to go Drew Brees.

not a Saints fan….but I have a problem with Mike saying “franchise was rocked to its foundation by news that defensive players received extra money to, among other things, inflict injuries on opponents.”

that just fits the paradigm that enables lawyers to
get into the fray–when it was never stated– the orders from Williams went beyond the spirit of the League’s ever evolving definition of how to hit ( not that they didn’t)–I found in a google that 5 Saint players have been fined–Harrison alone has been cited and fined more times than that

Holdout time.

The Saints are screwed without Brees.

I doubt Nicks was going to get the money he wanted anyway. Harder to find a franchise QB than it is a serviceable guard – and you absolutely need the first and can get away with the latter to win in this league.

pft needs to fire some mods as well.

It might get complicated if Loomis is fired, or it might help. Who knows?

Hopefully the Saints can turn their attention (as much as possible to negotiating with Nicks or Colston (or even Meachem or Porter).

The bounty scandal is despicable, but the Saints still have a football team to run in the meantime.

The fact that the supposed leader of a team that cheats and is full of prison-tat bullies he it is really deserving that this nimrod faux leader be paid exactly what he deserves; yet another year in a loser city and with a team rife with cheats and bullies.

This is the city of New Orleans, folks; with political and law enforcement shinnanigans. For Brees, it’ll be like solitary confinement just like the loser cops who murdered after Katrina. The media hyped that city and story to a weak nation of cultural idiots. From the mayor to sean payton…loosers all. Cheats. and highly paid very big bullies…hahahaha…yeah drew brees did not know anything about all that stuff…..bull squat!