SaintsBro |
05-29-2012 09:18 AM |
What makes it even more interesting, is the lesson that Brees learned from Doug Flutie, that he talks about in his book -- "never let your backup see the field." Brees is totally paranoid about his backup playing after his experience in San Diego. You can visually see he gets pissed off and angry when he comes out during a game, even at the end of a blowout. He's stayed in preseason games longer than he should have, UNTIL HE GOT THAT TOUCHDOWN he wanted. Fierce competitor. In his book he even mentioned being irritated about not playing in the worthless Carolina game. He's that freaked out over it.
Which makes me think that IF it comes down to no deal and Brees sitting out -- which admittedly is a big huge IF -- but IF that happens, I think it unfortunately makes the chances exponentially higher, that IF Brees sits out, that could mean we will have seen the last snap of him in a Saints uniform. Letting his backup see the field just runs totally contrary to every core belief and every fiber and bone and molecule in his body. Much more likely to me, in that extreme case, that he would desire to move on to somewhere else rather than face the ire of the fans after pulling a ridiculous stunt like that. He's already blown a tremendous amount of goodwill around the town, and among the fans.
Of course I will root for the Saints no matter who runs out the tunnel.
I would also NOT rule out the possibility that IF this crazy unlikely scenario were to actually happen, no Drew, that the Saints would look into bringing in some kind of last-minute veteran-on-the-couch option, right before Loomis goes on his suspension. A Jeff Garcia type dude, or somebody like that, with a bit of a proven track record, hanging on for one more shot on another team.... Not necessarily him in particular, but basically someone like that, who could do for the Saints what Kurt Warner did in Arizona or Favre for the Vikings -- just lead the team and get them one last desperate shot to take it as far as it can go. It' s just a matter of finding somebody with just enough gas left in the tank to pull off one more season.
But if you think about it, the current Saints without Drew would be a very comparable situation to the Vikings when Favre came in, with a lot of the pieces in place, a phantom coach, and players just dying to be led by somebody and dying to win something... a veteran could walk into that type of situation and maybe take it even further than Chase could.
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