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You think Drew Brees, who set an NFL single-season record for passing yards last season, will have a tough act to follow this year? You think it'll be nearly impossible for the Saints' quarterback to match or surpass in 2012 his level of production in 2011, when he threw for 5,476 yards?

You know. The league single-season record holder in all-purpose yards, with 2,696 last season, his first in New Orleans.

Not that it's impossible for Sproles to come up bigger and better, mind you. Few NFL records have proven untouchable, especially ones involving offensive production and yardage totals.

And Sproles wasn't much of a surprise last season. With San Diego, he'd had all-purpose yardage totals of 2,210 in 2010, 2,323 in 2009 and 2,297 in 2008.

But he's going to have his work cut out for him to pile up 2,697 yards or more this season -- and he's ready to clock in.

"I've just got to work on getting better," Sproles said Thursday. "There was some stuff that I wasn't good at, that's what I'm working on right now."

Now the first, logical instinct is to ask him what the heck he's talking about, to alert him that it's not shame to reflect on his accomplishment, to remind him that there couldn't possibly have been much of anything he needed to improve upon.

"I can't tell you what," he said, laughing, before choosing to give it up.

"It's like, my role was to come in and catch passes," he said. "What I need to work on is more running the ball, like the hard-nosed runners.

"I only had certain types of runs, and I want to go in and run power (plays) sometimes. That will keep the defense honest."

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