SaintsBro

I liked the other stuff you said in your post and agree with you on a lot of things, but this...I have to disagree

First thing you need to understand is that you got a heck of a lot of pleasure and enjoyment and success out of Drew Brees for six years for WAY LESS THAN HE WAS WORTH. You got the steal of a lifetime on that. He loyally played through his contract for five,six years and you loved it, you ate it up, enjoyed the ride, and the whole time he never once asked YOU personally for anything in return for what he gave you (your Super Bowl and one of the winningest records in football.) When he won the Super Bowl, made the Pro Bowl, broke records, beat the Falcons, etc., he did not even grumble or ask you for one penny more, for what he gave you.

You basically want to win win win win WIN and simply not pay for it. That is not realistic. Drew didn't just keep his end of the 2005 bargain, he blew it out the water. If he had simply met expectations, been a generically average quarterback (at his generic, average salary) you would have a right to grumble about giving him a raise. But he didn't meet hopeful expectations -- he shattered everything, and did things the Saints had never done, and broke records you never even dreamed the Saints would ever break.

Yes, he is human and he ****s up. He throws INTs. But "had Drew not wanted to be paid so highly," then he would not have played his ass off for you like he did, FOR YOU, while under a contract that was all out of whack in proportion with respect to what he was actually worth, or what he was bringing to the Saints from 2009 to the present, under Sean Payton.

Had Drew not wanted to be paid so highly, the Saints would have been 8-8, 7-9, 4-12 the whole time that he was here from 2006 to now.

No, Carl Nicks would not have stayed here if Drew had been paid less. Wouldn't have happened. The big contract was already given to Jahri Evans in 2010 (highest paid guard in the league at the time), and had they paid Nicks what he was worth proportionate to Evans, it would have been too much money tied up in the guard position, you can't have $150 million of your team's money and 1/3 of your salary cap tied up in two players at one same position like that, that isn't a quarterback.

The reason you like Carl Nicks so much, is because like Brees he was under paid, WAY underpaid, and most of the time he was here, he was playing his ass off to try and get a contract on a par with Jahri Evans right next to him. Tracy Porter is arguably the same-- you love his interceptions and big plays, but you don't say a peep about his 2008 rookie contract which he was playing under while he was here....until it's Drew's fault he leaves...