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Drew Brees spent his Monday afternoon to open up the bye week playing the part of a coach as the New Orleans Saints' quarterback filmed a commercial for Pepsi at the Walmart parking lot in Algiers.

I was given a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the commercial and caught up with Brees for an exclusive interview after the shoot.

Here's a selection of questions I posed to Brees on Monday:

Larry Holder: When you do a commercial, especially in town and you interacting with random people in the streets of New Orleans, what's your mindset going into these shoots?

Drew Brees: First thing is I love how our corporate partners want to do things here in the city. We always encourage that, in fact we like to make that happen because we understand a lot of it is about capturing the mindset and the attitude for what it's like to be a football player down here with this type of fanbase. Any chance you can incorporate the fanbase in what you're doing, especially something like this like Pepsi tailgate, these are really random people that all of a sudden get to show their true fanhood in a total surprise atmosphere. I don't think they know exactly what they're getting into.

LH: What's your favorite commercial you've ever done?



DB: Honestly, anyone that incorporates the family. There's been some with our boys that have just been off the charts. In a way, you're capturing a moment at a certain age or a certain point in their childhood. What's cool is all of those are so genuine and authentic. It's capturing stuff that we would be doing anyway. Then it just happens to be in a commercial with one of our corporate sponsors.

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