NBC Sports - ProFootballTalk: Will Drew Brees stay with the Saints?
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/01/14/will-drew-brees-stay-with-the-saints/
Can someone explain the $18m hit Saints still get even though his deal is expired? That means that if Brees signs for $25m a year the cap could be $43m? Plus his bonus?
Everyone though he would auto re-sign, but financially looks bleak. Lets go Tannenbaum, make a splash
We don't need a splash....we need an organization (from the top down) that fields a TEAM and a core of players that buy into the system...for example who below is the "splash"?
When the Vikings beat the Saints on Sunday to go to the NFC Championship Game, they did so led by four players that other teams didn’t believe in:
Case Keenum, the starting quarterback who was signed to be a third-stringer but spent the season as the starter, was undrafted out of college, cut by the Texans twice, cut by the Rams once, and largely passed over in free agency last year before the Vikings finally offered him a one-year, $2 million contract. Making $2 million a year is nice for most of us, but in the NFL, where a thoroughly mediocre quarterback like
Mike Glennon can sign a three-year, $45 million contract, a quarterback who signs for $2 million is a quarterback without other options.
Adam Thielen, who led the Vikings in receiving during the regular season and added six catches on Sunday, was undrafted coming out of Minnesota State, initially ended up with the Vikings as a tryout player without a contract, and was at first released and put on the practice squad before finally making the team the following year.
Stefon Diggs, who scored Sunday’s spectacular game-winning touchdown as time expired, was a big-time recruit who looked great as a freshman at Maryland but broke his leg as a sophomore and never looked the same after that. He slipped to the fifth round of the NFL draft amid concerns that he wouldn’t ever be able to regain his freshman year form.
Andrew Sendejo, the safety who made a spectacular leaping interception of
Drew Brees, can’t even be called an undrafted rookie because after NFL teams passed on him in the draft after a college career at Rice, no NFL team signed him. He had to spend his first season of pro football with the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League, where he played well enough to get noticed by the Cowboys, who signed him briefly and cut him. He then went to the Jets, who signed him briefly and cut him, before finally signing with the Vikings in 2011, originally making the team for his work on special teams, and finally becoming a defensive starter.
Those are the players who just led the Vikings to within one win of the Super Bowl.
Where is the "Brees"??..where is the "Landry"?.... Build a FUNCTIONAL core of players and the winning will come.....don't NEED superstars to win this game....the superstars will come when you get the important things right....
functional>>>dysfunctional...we are dysfunctional....it starts with the vision and leadership from the top ...our players aren't THAT bad...but they are mislead...it looks like Gase is building like minded leaders around him...let's hope they are the right fit
