Rugby Saint II

There have been some very good points made. What I bring away from this is Brees holds all the cards. Will he hold our feet to the fire again? God, I hope not. Brees is a good man who loves to give back to the community. But he has to have it to spend it.

Brees left San Diego after he played out the last year of his contract because he wanted more money on the open market. He blew out his shoulder and only two teams wanted him. I doubt he wants to do that again. Drew thought he might never make another big contract. He has a family after all and wants to provide for them. He played his first contract at a cheap rate on a prove it deal. Then he held out to get the most money he could when it came time for negotiations and it got kinda' ugly. Although, I believe he's earned every penny he's been paid.

A lot of people get angry at Drew for taking up 30 million of the salary cap. Drew didn't write that contract or kick the can down the road with a back loaded contract. He simply signed the contract and then went out and put up more HOF numbers. He has offered to renegotiate numerous times. But honestly what happens is the FO writes the player a large check then and writes it off over the long haul.iirc Brady restructures all the time. But as I understand it he gets paid handsomely to do so. I believe Drew's agent(Rosenhaul?) is notorious for strong arming teams by holding out and other such tactics. Not that Drew would do that this year.....even though he's done it in the past.

If the FO hadn't write several ludicrous contracts recently we would not be worried about it as much if our dead money was available to spend on upgrading the team.

The FO has a plan and doesn't want to deviate from it too much by reworking Drew's deal all the time to get some immediate funding for players like Josh Norman. They are sticking to their plan.

Also, I don't doubt that there is a deal in place and we are waiting until after the draft for a deal to get done.

I will say this it is hard to win Championships with so much money tied up in one position.........especially if you draft poorly and have no depth. We have to choose where to spend our cap money and choose wisely.