Speaking as a Falcons fan; Please Saints, by all means continue to screw the future HOF QB that fell into your laps because of this exact same situation occurring to him in San Diego. I’m sure he doesn’t remember getting franchised, hurt and dumped by the Chargers. He’s going to give in any day now. Loomis is a genius for playing hardball!
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You are right on the money with those comments bobulated even though they are done out of selfishness.
The exact same scenario played itself out in San Diego in 2005 when the Chargers offered him a 5 year $50 million dollar contract with a base salary of $2 million a year and heavily ladened with performance incentives. He was injured that year after being franchised for $8 mil a year. He has on occasion alluded to that incident in an oblique way and hinted he’d never play under those conditions again without the security of a long term contract. Brees is what, 33? This is his last go-around
It’s not greed and I can’t say I blame him for wanting that long term security at this point in time.

Benson owes Drew an explanation. Amazing how much your image of someone can change in a short period of time. I realize that Benson is low down, but Brees should realize that the rest of us don’t really like to hear millionaires crying, especially when we’re taking pay cuts and he’s feeling insulted by $8 Million a year…

I just don’t feel ya Drew.

First, you say he is an idiot for saying “bounties” and “pay-for-performance” are two different things–something that the NFL said were 2 different things in the statement that errupted your hate. So you’re mad at him for restating the info? Then, you hate the Saints* and are sick seeing stories about them; yet, you click on the stories and have to sign-in to leave a comment. Did someone force your hand? To add, the “needs an explanation” phrase has been so overused that it is already cliché, (yet still funny).

Finally, the people claiming to be Saints* fans, their sincerity should be questioned. To yelp at Drew Brees like this makes you just as bad the haters.
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There, I fixed that for you. You’re welcome.

Brees is showing the true phony that he really is

After major arm surgery when many teams thought he was washed up, his arm was ravaged the Saints took a HUGE chance and gave him a big contract with 10 million dollar guaranteed .

How quickly he forgot.

First, you say he is an idiot for saying “bounties” and “pay-for-performance” are two different things–something that the NFL said were 2 different things in the statement that errupted your hate. So you’re mad at him for restating the info? Then, you hate the Saints and are sick seeing stories about them; yet, you click on the stories and have to sign-in to leave a comment. Did someone force your hand? To add, the “needs an explanation” phrase has been so overused that it is already cliché.

Finally, the people claiming to be Saints fans, their sincerity should be questioned. To yelp at Drew Brees like this makes you just as bad the haters.

The Saints have no leverage in these negotiations. Brees can afford to sit out a year, can the Saints afford him to sit out a year?

Just because a guy makes 100x your salary does not mean he isn’t underpaid.

You yokels who are criticizing the man’s right to provide a future for his family when he never quibbled about playing when he was under paid since 2009 don’t know business. He trusted the organization to make good on their promise to pay him in his new contract. That time is NOW.

In the upcoming season he will have more responsibility than ever before. He needs to be paid accordingly.

I’ll say it again: you can’t be a fan and NOT support Drew Brees.

1. Brees was a pro bowl QB before he arrived in New Orleans so I’m not sure where the notion that he was an average QB in San Diego came from. Maybe his first 2 or 3 years in San Diego but certaintly not his last 2 years when things clicked. He had a QB rating of 104 in 2004 playing for San Diego good for 3rd best in the league.

2. Secondly Brees has no reason to be grateful for the Saints taking a “risk” signing him for $60 million dollars because he more than paid them back by outperforming that contract on the field and bringing the Saints their first super bowl. The Saints have made much more money off Brees than they’ve paid for his services. Besides if Brees didn’t pan out the team would have either forced him to renegotiate his contract to a lower salary or cut him and not pay him the rest of his $60 million contract so I fail to see what great risk the Saints took. Around the end of the same season Brees first signed with the Saints the Dolphins tried to force Daunte Culppeper to reduce his $50+ million contract scheduled to end in 2013 after only 1 season with the team and when he refused they cut him and voided the remaining balance on the contract. If Brees didn’t work out for the Saints the same would have been done to him. Again what risk did the Saints or any NFL organization take? These contracts aren’t guaranteed so you don’t get stuck with a Barry Zito (Baseball) or Eddie Curry (Basketball) albotros of a contract.

3. If Brees isn’t signed before the season starts it will be so damn funny to see the reactions of tough guy saints fans crying on this site.