Halo

It's hard for a fanbase to be excited about this news.
Especially without proper staffing and depth at certain positions namely in the defensive backield.

CheramieIII

Agreed. We have so many other issues. Since Drew has been here it seems that coach and his little toys on offense have cost us any chance at even an average defense.

Why sign Drew for 25 million a year when that 100 million will make us so much better on defense over the next 4 years. We haven't had any balance between offense and defense.

spkb25

The saints have been discussing a 4 year 40 million extension for SP. It's a banner year

NOLA54

I hope this is a joke.

jeanpierre

Guaranteed Amount? Those pushing for replacing Payton can forget about getting a quality Head Coach in here until that yoke is off the team...

Need checks and balances and as long as Gayle is stuffing snow crab down Tommy, nothing will change...

neugey

I'm not buying that they are really going to do something until the offseason - that's how the Saints and Brees' agent have rolled in the past. But if he did sign such a deal like that, it does make things interesting.

Perhaps the new deal does not have a no-trade clause and he could be traded to a team that needs him and they know they have him under contract and he won't walk in summer 2018. Or perhaps this is the organization's way of saying "we don't know where this whole thing is headed, but we are going to make sure Brees survives". Like Jor'El sending baby Kal'el off in a space pod.

ChrisXVI

Brees is a masochist huh?

In all seriousness, please don't leave us Drew. Payton can go but not you.

AsylumGuido

Did any of you look at the date on that LaCanfora tweet?

9:06 AM - Sep 5, 2016

Sheesh. There are no talks about a long term extension because Brees wants year to year deals just like Manning had over the final few years of his career. They have the same agent. He says he wants the freedom to retire when he is ready.

jnormand

Bahahaha!!!

AsylumGuido

This just further proves my oft repeated point about how the public can take things totally out of context and treat it as fact.

It is amazing.