but when people say things
i am going to take them at their word
until they tell me
otherwise and if they were joking well
then the joke's on me because the joke
here if there is one isn't obvious other
than maybe senior golf tour or
pickleball but even then again this is
drew brees one of the most competitive
individuals who has ever walked the face
of the earth that competitive drive
drove him to get more out of his
god-given ability than he ever should
have yeah and you mentioned tom brady
i mean come on let's face it
shake hands hi hey tom let's talk out on
the field after game come on come on
two highly competitive guys two of the
best quarterbacks of their age one of
them lands in a spot where he wins seven
super bowls the other one gets one
and maybe he thinks well if i had the
help around me that not that i'm not
gonna talk about coaching because
coaching i think is a wash ultimately
between peyton and belichick
or close to it but you know they went
through the bounty gate dark ages they
had three years where their defense was
just historically bad and they still
were around 500 then they have this run
of of just calamities in the postseason
starts with the minneapolis miracle then
you've got one of the worst calls of all
time in nfl postseason history with the
non-call of pass interference in the nfc
championship game then in 2019 hell
they've had so many things go wrong i
can't remember what derailed them in
2019. then they had 2019 was the vikings
no
no 29 2020 was
was 20 yeah 2019 was 2019 the the push
off the kyle rudolph push-off uncalled
pass interference it may have been it
was yes because 2020 was the buck the
bucks right yeah yeah in 2020 they're up
they're up seven on their way up to 10
or 14. they're up 20 to 10 right driving
yeah jared yeah jared jared uh cook
fumbles antoine winfield rips it out and
the whole game changes in that moment
right in that moment i think they're up
seven on their way to 10 or 14. i think
that's what it was i'm not sure but four
straight years of just
nothing he did it wasn't him yeah just
circumstances conspire to keep him from
getting to another super bowl so he's
got to be competitive and brady's still
playing and brady's getting a hand at
375 million when he's done absolutely
nothing to prove that he's going to earn
a penny of it he could be as bad as joe
montana was we don't know maybe he won't
be maybe he will be but fox is making
one hell of a bet and and and like you
said it's no secret drew wants to do
games and there's been persistent
reporting not speculation right
throughout the off-season that that he'd
like to land in a spot where he can do
games so the bottom line is he tweeted
what he tweeted and if i'm the seahawks
and my options are geno smith drew lock
or drew brees i know which one i'm
leaning toward if i could get him now
now
he's still under contract with the
saints he didn't become a free agent
he had a contract with those dummy
avoidable years on the back and he
retired post june 1 of last year so he's
technically
i am 99.9 sure on the saints reserve
retired list so it's not like he just
walks into any other team he wants to
i'd like to think the saints would
release his rights if he said please may
i go elsewhere unless the saints say oh
jameis winston
and whoever else we have under contract
here yeah drew come on back you can you
can you you can run this offense even
though sean's not here
you you can basically be the player
coach of the offense and
uh
dennis allen will take care of the
defense yeah come on back but um
regardless i agree with you i don't
think it's gonna happen and maybe this
was just his frustration becoming
manifested because somebody else set the
narrative right somebody else right put
it out there before he had a chance to
do it the way he wanted to
that may be the easiest explanation but
still i like to hold people to their
words
because if we if we start giving people
a pass before they even say i was joking
i was kidding i was whatever it's just
life is life is complicated enough
without
giving people the benefit of taking them
at their word yeah hey listen it's drew
brees at the the very least like you're
talking about when he says something
like hey i might play football and his
last year of football was not all that
bad and they were one of the better
teams in the nfc and he was a
quarterback of that football team yeah
it's not that crazy to sit there when he
puts out a tweet like that to go wait
maybe would he do that and you know i
say this with all due respect he's the
type of psycho that would think about
doing that he is that's why he's great
to the way you explain he's a psycho i
mean he's loves the sport
he talked to me last year i'm gonna
share this i don't know he might get mad
at me but i know when he was thinking
about it he went in the backyard and was
like let me throw some balls and do all
that so
you know again that itch is it
completely gone no i as i've told you
before i lived with a guy who played for
15 years and i don't think the itch
really left until maybe two years after
he was completely done playing football
and i could still see there being a
little itch there for drew brees but
it does look like it was a reaction as
at this point to me and i think you know
hey we'll talk about it because it's
drew brees and when you say that you're
right we're gonna hit on it i don't
think there's any way to avoid it but
i think that's as far as i would go
right now until i hear something at
least a little more substantial from him
or somebody in the nfl that
he has been calling around there are you
know there is it is on his radar once
again then then we can really have a lot
of fun and unpack it a little bit
closure is very important to every
athlete really much pretty much anyone
and everyone something you do something
you've done for a long time how do you
properly land that plane how do you get
the closure you're looking for yeah and
right
and and do you walk away too early do
you walk away too late how do you
how do you walk away at just the right
moment i'm sure the drew brees would
have loved to have done what john elway
jerome bettis right manning michael
strahan did
win the super bowl
and you're gone perfect way to have
closure to your career you go out
on top john it was perfect for john
elways especially all those years of
futility
to back-to-back super bowls wins one
and that would have been the perfect
time to walk away
come back for one more and then wins
another one
that's yeah that's perfection right
that's perfection for john elway and
that's i think what they're all striving
for and some are going to get it very
few are going to get it and the rest are
going to be looking for it i keep
thinking of this quote from tom brady
from december of 2021 when he won the
sports person of the year award from
sports illustrated i imagine not playing
and i imagine watching football on
sundays going these guys suck i could do
way better than that and then still
knowing in my heart that i could
actually still do it if i stopped
i think i'd have to find something else
that i'm pretty good at
look i i don't think it's reckless to
say drew brees is probably thinking the
same damn thing number one sure i spent
a year watching a bunch of guys play
thinking i could be better than that
right now and number two i want to find
something post-playing
that i'm pretty damn good at
and i think it's calling games well how
do i how do i get a spot
you know the musical chairs yeah thing
you know that it's it's winding to a
conclusion and if there's going to be a
spot
in 2022 you know there's there's some
uncertainty the top of the fox lineup
maybe there's a spot there so
or or pickleball or senior golf and
again it sounds like a joke but but
i if he if he wanted to do it and he
committed himself to it the way he
committed himself to football
he would end up being pretty damn good
at it that's that's why i don't see much
of a joke there because this is like you
said he's a psycho he's going to do
whatever he has to do to master whatever
it is that he chooses to do yeah no no
question he's not he can't play the
senior golf tour though he's not 50
years old so he's got to wait there he's
got to make the real wow he's got seven
years to get ready for it he's got seven
years but yes he is but also within that
psycho i think this is the type of
psycho that would look at that news that
breaks on sunday and be like what the
hell i i wasn't ready for this to be
released or you know maybe not all these
details are figured out yet and i could
see him being the psycho to go hey you
know what i'll let everybody kind of
know what i'm going to figure out with
my own life you know so i could see that
going either way there as competitive as
he is certainly i mean there's no doubt
about it so i don't i mean we've i think
unpacked all the different psych
psychological angles that this could
have gone certainly and we'll keep our
eye on it hey the saints
we just should have him call in this
morning we should have why he should
have
you know let's have a let's have a
little chat do you work for nbc or not i
don't know we don't know we'd like to
know let's break this out here
because you're right people think we
know like the details of this kind of
stuff and it's like our bosses don't
tell us this stuff i mean no we can't be
trusted until your mouth finds out just
like everybody else i know so
uh
but hey i mean the saints their team
we've talked about that they are ready
they're a good football team they have
made some nice additions to the team and
i certainly don't think either one of us
or anybody that really follows the sport
closely
looks at it and especially after the
draft
you can go the saints think they're a
player in the nfc and when you look at
them on paper you go they should be a
player in the nfc the nfc is not that
great and they're certainly one of the
handful of teams you sit there and go i
could see them in the playoffs a hundred
percent no doubt about it
let me just throw this out there too
because i assume that he would want to
return to new orleans
and play for this i would think right
yeah right right all due respect to
jameis winston and whoever else is on
the depth chart ian book andy dalton see
andy dalton yes andy dalton he's there
yeah yeah yeah right now who else is
there is it it's winston it's dalton and
it's why do i think there's
somebody else i think there is somebody
there i mean tate we're not counting
taysom hill anymore chasing hillary i'm
counting no i don't know i'll look it up
um yeah
i'm going to throw this out there
because i made the suggestion earlier
that between geno smith drew lock and
drew brees i would take drew brees in
seattle i
i mean if we're only talking about three
yard passes in miami
would i maybe really really would you
would if if right now for this miami
team as it's constituted with tyree kill
with all the other additions they made
this off season or he most or chase
edmonds has just added out melvin ingram
last night you know they they they they
have kind of a vibe and remember it was
miami that was this team
he wanted to go there in 2006.
the saints were a plan b he wanted to go
to the dolphins in 2006. it was
it was the doctor doesn't know his ass
from a bag of sand or however nick saban
phrased it because of course it's not
the fault of the guy who had complete
control over the football operation and
could have said to the doctor i don't
care if you're not passing them on the
physical i want this guy
drew wanted to go to miami would you
take
right now for one year
right now
would you take drew brees with this team
as constituted over tua
i don't know what i don't know what my
answer to it would be i'm curious about
what you're doing
i mean i have not thought about it you
know i mean
yes drew brees would be able to run that
offense there's no question and make
some plays and do things that way
you know but man there is something to a
young guy who's hungry as hell and
trying to prove himself and everything
there and willing to take hits and do
all of that
you know
a year out of football right now
all of that i don't know it's called
it's a close one i guess i'd still go
drew brees but i i don't know if i'd
feel totally comfortable with that
listen we saw some flaws in drew brees
game towards the end so i can't sit here
and pretend as much respect as i have
for an all-time great quarterback and
the guy and who we got to know last year
and all that i can't sit here and lie
and just go oh my gosh if he just walks
in he's going to take any job there is
no there's a reason that came to an end
there is
you know so that that's where it's it's
a tough one for me i think though but
what flaws what flaws in tua what flaws
as far as his flaws no no what flaws in
drew i'm sorry i'm trying to make a
point here because i think whatever
flaws you see in drew they're already
there with tua i hear you well all right
so like i mean again arm strength is an
issue there you're right with with both
of them right
i would two is gonna move around in the
pocket better and do some of that stuff
better let alone scramble and run with
his legs and what i always worry about
because what we see
even from the goat and brady or anybody
else we've seen him big ben ross when
you get to the age of drew brees ben
roethlisberger tom brady for the most
part there is a part of preservation
mode like we talked about you know again
brady's really awesome still but every
game he gets pressured on man that game
gets shaky as hell in a hurry just like
the champ the nfc divisional game it was
four it was gonna be 45 to nothing if
the rams didn't just stop dropping the
ball and go here you go so those are the
things i would worry about you know when
you just come back out of nowhere and
try to play the mental stuff and knowing
where to go the ball i know drew is
going to be all over that stuff and and
and more advanced into a it's just some
of the other stuff that you know i'd
want to see at least can i see on the
practice view can we get a workout
something like that
i think that's the key if this is
something that he was even thinking
about he would need to be out there
today
working and asap
trying out for a team somewhere yeah
showing what what he can do all right
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