Comments on: Brees gets $37 million to sign

By: jacksprat57

jacksprat57 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:26:02 +0000

If the Saints are lucky this year, they’ll roll over most or all of that $9 million under the cap, so that they can add top talent next year.

By: daknight93

daknight93 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:00:05 +0000

Too many haters on here are just clueless and just say anything negative and ignorant with no knowledge of this very team friendly deal…Brees cap is 10M in 2012 and saints now are 9M dollars under cap and brees cap will be somewhere around 17M in 2013 new tv contracts will kick in 2014 brees base salary will be cap friendly again and in the last 2 yrs of deal is a team option saints can easily cut brees if he is on decline or easily restructure his deal…this was a win-win for both sides and saints will not be hurting to resign other players. Saints will make some cuts and restructure just like every other team does and Loomis is one of the best GMs in the NFL…this deal isn’t gutting the Saints…Saints are in better shape cap wise than 90% of other nfl teams

By: tdk24

tdk24 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:11:00 +0000

The rest of the team won’t see him as their blue collar QB anymore.

By: sucram619

sucram619 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:00:31 +0000

I lost all respect for Bree’s over bountygate and now he robs his team of the future years cause they have no money left?? This is the only year they got a shot cause it’s downhill from here. Ohhhh and good luck at that without Sean Payton!

By: trojanwarrior007

trojanwarrior007 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:32:45 +0000

That sound you hear is Aaron Rodgers backing up the Brinks truck for when his current deal expires.

By: darkangel400

darkangel400 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:24:46 +0000

Don’t get mad with a man,who is trying to get what he think he is worth,don’t get mad with a man who is getting paid,don’t get mad with a man who is trying to make sure that his wife an kids,are going to be taking care the rest of there life,an he is using his back an profession to do it. The owners make ten times that much are more,owners use players an the team for entertainment to make way more money than what they are paying players an the owners don’t take the physical beating are life changing injuries are there life for that matter. But no one talk about that,are complain bout the hundreds of million of $ that the owners make,but instead people complain bout a player getting paid to much money that they help the owner to make money for because the player,happen to be a good to great player,so if you don’t have a are some great players on that owners team than,that owner can’t make that great money are win.$40 million for 1y that like $40 dollars to Mr.Benson remember people he just bought the hornets for $300M if I heard it right. So be for real people an be honest with yourself wouldn’t you.

By: chatham10

chatham10 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:22:35 +0000

The big bucks these guys are getting is great for them and the fans of these guys are thrilled but I hope they take time out to remember it is them the fans that will be paying this money. The price of everything will go up and unless the fans quit buying the players will continue to pull in the big bucks and you the fan cannot complain, it is simple as Supply and Demand.

By: pettytom

pettytom — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:54:41 +0000

For everyone bitching about the amount of money Drew is getting paid in this deal take a look at this. Drew is getting 60 million guaranteed which is a crazy number but Blake Griffin just signed a contract in the NBA that guarantees him 61 million and NOBODY is saying a word about it. We are talking about a guy whose only move is to dunk with minimal contact and then a guy who gets chased around by 300+ lbs lineman, DE’s that are about 280, and not to mention linebackers that average 230-250 lbs that are hitting a guy thats 5’11″ and he’s overpaid????? If anyone is overpaid it is EVERY NBA player!!!!! Drew broke a record that stood for 30 years and has the highest completion percentage over the last 3-4 years and most wins over the last five according to Chris Mortenson’s report that he had during the week (if that’s not accurate don’t blame me!). Good for Drew, good for the Who Dat nation, and now its timw to turn it into W’s.

By: darkangel400

darkangel400 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:35:06 +0000

To the haters,if it was you would you turn it down are complain about $40 mill for your first year doing something You love. If your Employer wanted to pay you that type of money in one year what would you do? I guess some of you would be stupid an Don’t take it right?Don’t hate congratulate.

By: jbd0304

jbd0304 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:31:40 +0000

Hey Drew Brees
Life must be so tough for you – I mean to have such a hard life that you had to hold out for a couple extra million.

Here is a thought – join the military like Pat Tillman did and then see how much you would complain.

Pathetic

By: sloppydogg

sloppydogg — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:46:12 +0000

GOOD DAY FOR THE WHO DAT NATION

By: jacksaysfu

jacksaysfu — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:37:58 +0000

Is $40M the most any NFL player has ever received fully guaranteed for one season ? Brees is one of the league’s best QB’s , but I sincerely doubt that ANY player should receive 40 Million guaranteed for 1 season , but then again
im not again im not a Saints fan . So congrats who Dat nation ( unless you play my team of course) .

By: taintedlombardis

taintedlombardis — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:34:59 +0000

To quote the great Ross Tucker “Brees got biggest $ guarantee in NFL history yet it’s less than Nets just guaranteed Brook Lopez. Who? Exactly.”

Anyone that thinks Brees is overpaid is an idiot.

By: jimthebuilder27

jimthebuilder27 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:19:52 +0000

What a team player ::sarcastic::

By: spearsnva

spearsnva — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:07:30 +0000

Brees your an overpaid lil crybaby girl! Your like the rest of the nation dont give two craps about the aints!

The SKINS are gonna put you and the rest of those AINT’S on there ARSE week 1 baby huey!

MARK IT!

By: shutupbrees

shutupbrees — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:03:30 +0000

I’m so happy for him

By: bullcharger

bullcharger — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:50:18 +0000

37 million dollars. That’s $10,000 a week for 71 years without any interest.

By: electionconfidential

electionconfidential — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:49:59 +0000

I hate him now. So bad. I like Vick better.

By: wludford

wludford — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:33:55 +0000

I’d count the $37 million signing bonus as back-pay. Overall a good deal for Brees and for the Saints inasmuch as they managed the salary cap as best they could.

Still, I agree with those that say this begins the slide to mediocrity for the Saints. Paying one guy 20% of your salary cap, even if he’s 1 of the top 3 QBs in the league, is a killer in terms of putting a quality team around him.

Must have very competent front-office and coaching to sign and develop young talent and pick-up struggling vets and turn them around.

Would not be surprised to see the Saints miss the playoffs this year.

By: bucfandango

bucfandango — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:09:08 +0000

As a Buc fan, I can’t stand him……………. and he’s worth every last dime.

Well deserved. Congrats.

By: backindasaddle

backindasaddle — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:50:40 +0000

Poor poor Drew. I feel so bad for him about how shabbily the Saints and the NFL have treated him…..poor poor Drew. Those evil corporations are taking total advantage of him and are completely abusing him.

Such was his vile spin leading up to this. Drew, without a doubt, sullied his reputation leading up to this. He portrays himself as a liberal “compassionate” kinda guy who’s very concerned about “social justice” (another term for socialism). But throughout this negotiation he has demonstrated a selfishness like no other. I found him to be extremely hypocritical of his own professed values….. kinda like the Hollywood crowd.

By: LoCoSu@%s

LoCoSu@%s — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:58:46 +0000

Good for him.
I now hope the following happens
1. Brees keeps his mouth shut
2. No more “Brees demands an explanation” comments (I am truly sick of those).
3. Lets get back to discussing football and not on bountygate or the social / anti social lives of players and coaches.

The offseason sucks

By: saintsfan83

saintsfan83 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:36:58 +0000

Brees probaly will give 10% back to charities around New Orleans but that want get reported just how greedy Brees was for taking a deal which he earned.

By: shu51302

shu51302 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:20:41 +0000

Ok…yes we complain that $40 million is too much money. But you know what? Someone was willing to pay it. Off the top of my head, I’m not sure what he earned last year, but for round numbers’ sake we will say $10 million. So now he makes 4 times that this year. If I make 50k a year and I perform, and my boss and I haggle and he eventually offers me 200k a year to perform again, am I gonna say no? It’s like the a-rod thing when he left Seattle. Texas offered him $252 million, the next highest was Atlanta at HALF that at $126 million. Sure he’s a d-bag but I’m not gonna boo him because he makes more than the GDP of 25 countries. If people want to get mad, get mad at the owners or willing to pay it or get mad at the networks whose tv deals pay for the players’ salaries.

By: vetdana

vetdana — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:10:58 +0000

So now…..most other players are going to want to follow suite with like contracts and up, up and away we go….the sky is the limit !…..Reminds me of the Real Estate Market. when every investor thought there would never be an end to it ! The NFL and Pro Spots, in general, will eventually price itself out of existence because the people paying for all of this will not be able to fund this Greed Machine with the insatiable appetite ~

By: metalhead65

metalhead65 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:08:41 +0000

so what happened between yesterday when you said they were miles apart even as brees said he was confident a deal would get done before the deadline? looks like you were wrong again! go on admit it there is no shame in admiting you were wrong,well maybe in your case since you are mr. know it all, but just admit you were wrong about this.

By: swingondeesenuts

swingondeesenuts — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:05:06 +0000

Wisconsin77 – Payton Manning got hurt in the middle of his front loaded deal so it only hurt the Colts for one season and actually helped them get their QB of the future. As for Albert Haynsworth , it’s foolish to put him and Drew Brees in the same paragraph. Haynesworth was the result of the dumbest owner in the league trying to play fantasy football.

There has been far more elite players signed to big money deals that have worked out then those who haven’t. You seem to forget in the NFL, nearly all of the big money deals are front loaded meaning that after a couple of years, you can simply cut the player and only lose the signing bonus money you gave him.

By: DonRSD

DonRSD — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:53:28 +0000

Boy got paid.
That’s so much money that we are talking about 10-20 million like its nothing.
All of us who posted a comment won’t sniff 1-2 years of his deal with all of our money combined.

GO BIG BLUE!!!

By: vtopa

vtopa — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:50:34 +0000

HAHAHA!!! To all those doomsayers out there and Saints haters. Bet you’re shaking in your boots now. A happy Brees is a dangerous Brees.

By: tsi431

tsi431 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:49:03 +0000

Not a single person hated Brees until his diva rant about sitting out if he doesn’t get his deal. I agree with him that franchising sucks, but $hit it’s still over $23 million for one season, more then tenfold the money anyone will need for a lifetime.

Brees = Dwight Howard