Championship...

Who Dat Nation needed some good news, geez.

I'm hearin' some Who Dats and I'm way out here beyond BFE as far as the Saints Nation goes.

Who said dat Friday the 13th is so bad?! Drew Dat Who Dat!

Who the heck is "Drew Brees" ?

FINALLY!!!

Edited to say let me read a little more about the structure of the deal. That's a lot of money to pay to one player and stay competitive to fill other holes, but I'll see what kind of magic Mickey worked.

*faints.................is this fer real?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! WHO DAT BABY!!!!!!!!!

Now the focus for the team is back to football. For awhile at least.

NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!!! NOW LETS GO WIN THE SUPERBOWL BABY!!!!!!

Can somebody explain how this year's value is $40M, but he is only counting $18.6M towards the cap?

I love Drew as much as anybody, but I hope we didn't just shackle our financial flexibility to a QB who will be 39 in the final year of his contract.

Make it rain baby!!! Who Dat!!!!!!!!

People questioning the FO...........STOP IT!!!! JUST STOP IT!!!!!

IN LOOMIS I TRUST

In the 3rd year of drews contract we'll end up drafting a young gun to sit behind drew for 2 years

That way we can hopefully plan for the future

As for now, our future is a black and gold superbowl

I just punched myself in the jewels to see if I was awake.

Finally!!!!!!

$40M in salary and signing bonus. Signing bonus is amortized through the length of the contract, so even if Drew gets all the cash today, the Saints write the bonus money off the salary cap in yearly installments.

Let's celebrate!!!! Drinks on Drew!!!

And I have a bat for anyone who tries to jump back on the bandwagon....
"Bring The Wood"

As excited as I am, that $60 mil guaranteed IS an astronomically high number.

CAP HITS...

2012 10.2 million (3m base + 37/5 = 7.2m signing bonus)
2013 17.2 million
2014 18.2 million
2015 26.2 million
2016 27.2 million

Mayb so, but the talent Drew will attract (and retain) during his tenure here is not measurable.

Finally. 3 years to get to the Superbowl again, and
then it is back to restructuring and trying to get out the cellar of the NFC South.

One would hope. However, Drew can't retain players unless he wants to defer his salary to them. His contract means it will be very challenging to afford people. Fortunately we have most of our core players already signed long term, so that's good.

Just FYI, we freed up over 6 million in cap space for this year.

Anybody wanna do some shopping? DE's, DT's? Maybe another LB, WR or CB?

5 years 100 mil 60 guaranteed. Don't understand what the hold up was. Deals can always be restructured and guaranteed money can always be spread out later to accommodate future FA's.

Glad this process if finally over with. Now we can start talking about some real football.

Loomis may be the best hire in the history of this franchise. Seriously. :bng:

Congratulation Guys! I know you needed good news and Brees sign for camp

I'm a big Jim Finks fan, but I think Mickey just surpassed him in my opinion.

I know three NFL teams that all said "DAMMIT!!!" all at once.

I would say.
A very high 5 at $100m

:bng:

... including a certain team in big D from which many of SP's formative years germinated. We also have some business to take care of with a certain team in the Bay area.

Just in time for weekend!! Now I can drink all weekend and not feel like an alcoholic... I'm just celebrating!!!!

Maybe this was done on purpose? Friday the 13th? Bad luck? With all of the bad luck we have had this off season, maybe metaphorically, they are saying, good things CAN happen, even with luck against you? Maybe I'm just still high fromt he signing...... Getting out there.... Sorry.... lol

Congrats to Drew Brees! DREW DAT!

A small thought to ponder... his contract is larger than what Tom Benson paid for the team.

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Hallaluah!!!!!!!!
WHO DAT. Five more years of Championship football..............

EEEEEEEK!

Hamina, Hamina, Hamina....